Religion as a philosophical matter : : concerns about truth, name, and habitation / / Lars Albinus.

• VerfasserIn: Albinus, Lars, 1965-
• Place / Publishing House: Warsaw : : De Gruyter,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy of religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages).

The book works out new perspectives for a philosophy of religion that aims beyond the internal questions of rationality within a theological tradition, on the one hand, and the outer criticism of religion from naturalistic quaters, on the other. Instead it places itself within a wider philosophical view in line with groundbreaking thoughts about culture and a basic human 'conditionality' among interwar philosophers such as Ernst Cassirer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger. The book also offers a concrete interpretation of examples of religious phenomena displaying a human world-relation that centers on issues of 'truth', 'name', and 'habitation'. Finally, lines are drawn to Jean-Luc Nancy's current rethinking of Christianity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 State of the Art -- 2 Demarcations and Deliberations -- 3 Philosophy of Religion as a Social Phenomenon -- 4 The Frames of Truth and Reference -- 5 Of Name and Language -- 6 The Condition of Habitation -- 7 Perspective (Thinking With and Against Religion) -- 8 Conclusion -- Literature -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.