Overview
- Represents the first concerted effort in religiously diverse and inclusive philosophy of religion
- Is the only book that brings together scholars of diverse religious and artistic traditions in a cross-cultural inquiry of ineffability
- Examines religious ineffability without neglecting its important connections to artistic and literary expressions of inexpressibility
Part of the book series: Comparative Philosophy of Religion (COPR, volume 1)
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About this book
This collection of essays is an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion that explores the different ways in which humans express the inexpressible. It brings together scholars of over a dozen religious, literary, and artistic traditions, as part of The Comparison Project's 2013-15 lecture and dialogue series on "religion beyond words." Specialist scholars first detailed the grammars of ineffability in nine different religious traditions as well as the adjacent fields of literature, poetry, music, and art. The Comparison Project's directors then compared this diverse set of phenomena, offering explanations for their patterning, and raising philosophical questions of truth and value about religious ineffability in comparative perspective.
This book is the inaugural publication of The Comparison Project, an innovative new approach to the philosophy of religion housed at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa, USA). The Comparison Project organizes a biennial series of scholar lectures, practitioner dialogues, and comparative panels about core, cross-cultural topics in the philosophy of religion. Specialist scholars of religion first explore this topic in their religions of expertise; comparativist philosophers of religion then raise questions of meaning, truth, and value about this topic in comparative perspective. The Comparison Project stands apart from traditional approaches to the philosophy of religion in its commitment to religious inclusivity. It is the future of the philosophy of religion in a diverse, global world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Editors: Timothy D. Knepper, Leah E. Kalmanson
Series Title: Comparative Philosophy of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64165-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64163-8Published: 11 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87738-9Published: 11 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64165-2Published: 24 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2522-0020
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0039
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 288
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour