Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies

<p><b>Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.</b></p><p>In this important work Jim Kanaris provides a unique approach to the study of religion aiming to alleviate the methodological and ideological barriers that divide philosophers theologians and social scientists. This is a philosophy of religion for a wider audience than that designation usually circumscribes and for that reason Kanaris opts for the broader philosophy of religious studies. He hybridizes insights principally from the works of Bernard Lonergan and Martin Heidegger but also those of Jacques Derrida Charles Winquist and Tyler Roberts among others. Kanaris combines this with a distinctive hermeneutical approach that gives rise to what he calls enecstatic philosophy one that manages the irreducible complexity of one's individuality a singularity in the negotiation of one's objects of concern. <i>Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies</i> is unlike any other book in religious studies. It provides a unique way to surface personal involvement in the study of religion without compromising scholarly objectivity and philosophical integrity.</p>