Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein : Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations of Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Interpretations of Wittgenstein, Religion and Interreligious Relations -- Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion1 -- Elucidating Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 "Being Near Enough to Listen": Wittgenstein and Interreligious Understanding -- Appreciating Diversity -- The Lived Contexts of Belief Formation -- Seeking Analogies -- Integrating the Dimensions -- Epilogue on Wonder -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Wittgenstein and Ascriptions of "Religion" -- 1 Critical Studies of "Religion" -- 1.1 Sketching the Uses of "Religion" -- 1.2 Tracing the Genealogy of "Religion" -- 1.3 Critical Realism about Religion -- 2 Wittgenstein and Contexts of Ascription -- 3 The Landscapes of Dialogue and Comparison of Religions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy as Foundation of Comparative Theology -- Religious Beliefs as Elements of World-Pictures? -- Propositions Expressing Religious Belief as Hinge Propositions? -- Interreligious Communication in the Awareness of Double Contingency -- Methods of Comparative Theology Developed from Wittgenstein8 -- (1) Comparative Theology Is Characterised by Its Micrological Approach and Its Attention to the Particular -- (2) Comparative Theology Is Concerned with Contemporary Problems and Intends to Give an Orientation on Actually Posed Questions -- (3) Comparative Theology Wants to Appreciate Differences and Tries to Learn from Them for Its Own Development -- (4) Comparative Theology Needs the Instance of a Third Position -- (5) Comparative Theology Always Needs to Return to Religious Praxis.

(6) Already on the Basis of This Dialogical Open-Mindedness, Comparative Theologians Are Aware of Their Own Vulnerability and the Reversibility and Fallibility of Their Judgements -- Epilogue: Enabling the Appreciation of Otherness -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Wittgenstein's Religious Epistemology and Interfaith Dialogue -- Mysticism, Reason and Beyond -- No Theories, Nor Even Religious Dogmas -- Only Believe -- Assent and Truth -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Showing the Fly Out of the Bottle: Wittgenstein's Enactive Apophaticism and Interreligious Dialogue -- Introduction -- Enactive Apophaticism: Some Methodological Preliminaries -- Showing, Not Saying: the Early Wittgenstein -- Of Existential Bumps and Hidden Hinges: the Late Wittgenstein -- Mystical Discourse: Means of Living and Saying Nonsense6 -- Silence -- Action -- Evocative Nonsense -- Paradox -- Negation -- Metaphor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Radical Pluralism, Concept Formation, and Interreligious Communication -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 What Is Radical Pluralism? -- 2.1 Radical Pluralism in Political Discourse -- 2.2 Theological Pluralism and Wittgenstein's Radical Pluralism -- 3 Radical Pluralism and Interreligious Communication -- 3.1 Wittgenstein on Concept Formation and Primitive Reactions -- 3.2 Derrida, Primatology, and the Animals That We Are -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism and Interreligious Communication -- Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism -- The Implications of Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism for the Theory and Practice of Interreligious Communication -- Three Features of Interreligious Communication according to Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism -- Worries about Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism and Remarks on Further Research -- Bibliography.

Chapter 9 The God of the Intellect and the God of Lived Religion(s): Reflections on Maimonides, Wittgenstein and Burrell -- Burrell, Philosophy, and Interreligious Engagement -- Maimonides, Classical Rabbinic Literature, and the Intellectualization of God -- Therapy, Distortion, and Intellectual Elitism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Multiple Religious Belonging in a Wittgensteinian Perspective -- Introduction -- Religion as Language: a Brief Introduction -- Multiple Religious Belonging -- Ideas from Wittgenstein -- Multiple Religious Belonging in Analogical Perspective -- Language-Games and Religion-Games -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Names, Persons and Ritual Practices: Wittgenstein and the Way of Tea -- An Analogy between Names and Magical Symbols -- Names and Persons, Persons and Souls -- Religion as Source and Object of Reverence -- Consequences for some Current Views: Particularity and Contingency -- Religious Hospitality: the Way (In and Out) of Tea -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

This volume argues that Wittgenstein's philosophy of religion and his thought in general continue to be highly relevant for present and future research on interreligious relations.

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