Introduction: Deliberative democracy, West and East Democracies today face turbulent times. Populism, polarization, and entrenched inequality threaten their foundations, while…
Buddhism and deliberative democracy
philosophy
Risky play
The challenge “Interdependence” is often evoked as a Buddhist term, but it is also frequently misappropriated in terms of “relational…
Virūpa, meet Fichte: Uncanny resonances in comparative philosophy
Comparative approaches, especially those couched as “East/West” philosophy, are beset with simplification, projections, and biases, often resulting in narrowness and…
Experience between the secular and the divine: Conclusion
Why have religious philosophers and theologians been drawn to phenomenology in particular? The essays in this forum suggest several answers…
Law, love, phenomenology: Levinas between Lyotard and Marion
In the 1990s, Dominique Janicaud denounced authors such as Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion for engineering a "theological turn" in…
Experience between the secular and the divine
The strange and often contradictory ways that phenomenology has been woven into and through diverse religious traditions are the subject…
I swear
This forum is on the oath: the promise, the pledge, the vow, equally the curse, the malediction, the blasphemy.
On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard
In religious studies . . . our students learn non-knowing not by thinking their way to it, but by actually…
Practices of relation: Khawaja and Levene
Noreen Khawaja and Nancy Levene, authors respectively of the recently published books, The Religion of Existence and Powers of Distinction,…
Prayer to no end
Sightings of a bridge between philosophy and religion by way of cognitive technē are among this book’s most exciting contributions.…