This piece replies to a recently published article in the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion by J. L. Schellenberg and Paul Draper. They contend that field African philosophy religion needs renewal, they make several recommendations on how achieve this. I agree with their recommendations, but argue have omitted crucial problem solution renew field; namely, fundamental is it systemicall...

leaving some important elements of the traditional phenomenology of religion aside, ninian smart proposes the dynamic phenomenology of religion or, in other words, the historical- comparative method, the main concern of which is to set evolutions of religious phenomena in their historical context. he holds that there are two mistakes in contemporary religious studies and philosophy of religion:...

This paper uses (tele)presence concepts to explore the practical and philosophical implications of the simulation argument: the notion that individuals may be trapped within manufactured realities. After describing a series of hypothetical simulation scenarios, key distinguishing dimensions of the scenarios are considered and implications for epistemology, religion and morality, mortality, and ...

Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (TTP) is one of the first and most important theoretical justifications of the separation of religion from philosophy and from politics. The separation of church and state and the separation of theology from other scientific disciplines are of course defining moments of contemporary secularity. While it can easily appear from certain religiously conserva...