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| The Centre of Philosophy and Religion is
dedicated to a rigorous examination of religious attitudes, values, and beliefs expressed
worldwide. Religion is one of the great expressions of humankind throughout history and
all over the world that offers philosophy many challenges. The forms of religious
expression include the totality of human experiences of the sacred. The scope of
philosophy and religion is holistic and comprehensive. It is holistic since it includes
all forms of religious expressions, and comprehensive since it views religious expression
within a wide range of values. |
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| Some broad themes that offer special
interest to PAR include the following: the philosophical analysis of theological doctrines
or truths of revelation; analytic and post-analytic analyses of religious experience; the
European tradition and religion; the encounter of philosophy and religion in history
(Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary); the view of religion from the Continental
philosophical tradition; the nature and function of religious experience; the concept
'God' as philosophical problem; religious epistemology; atheism and agnosticism; religion
and community; metaphysics and religion; etc... |
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| Some narrow themes that offer special
interest to PAR include the following: instances of religion and community, namely, (i)
religion and environmental ethics, (ii) religious transformation and community, (iii) the
social dimension of religion, (iv) the relation of religious symbolism and ceremony to the
ongoing transformation of personal experience, (v) philosophical concepts of the person
within religion, and (vi) interfaith dialogue. And instances of cognition and religious
experience; the problem of evil; critical theory and religion (Adorno, Benjamin,
Habermas); the Reformed tradition (as an instance of religious epistemology or natural
theology); persons and immortality; the nature and function of religious experience; myth;
religion and science; French post-structuralist views of religion; Eastern religion and
its relationship to the western religious tradition; etc... |
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