The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

establishment in each case reflects a culturally generated way of reinforcing socially desirable attitudes and practices, reinfo ...

A worry about testimony akin to Hume's emerges for Alston's position if we consider someone who is not a practitioner of CMP or ...

my best to get my revised practice socially established. If I transformed my Aristotelian practice into a Kantian practice in th ...

Another Familiar Problem: Religious Intolerance John Locke presents a classic argument for the toleration of diverse religious b ...

rituals frequently enough. The state could then increase the number of citizens who eventually accept the true and saving faith ...

cannot become converts simply by deciding to do so because the judgments and movements of the will that constitute the essence o ...

In my opinion, though here I go beyond anything I find explicitly stated in his text, Bayle's best strategy at this point would ...

experience to bestow on the claim that an intolerant act is obligatory because it is divinely commanded an epistemic status grea ...

is a failure, we may wish to excuse Kant on the grounds that he knew much less about the full extent of religious diversity outs ...

ideology, not a religion, while acknowledging that Nazism resembles a religion in several respects. There have been similar cont ...

Theravada Buddhism and Nazism satisfy the defining conditions proposed by Geertz but not those proposed by Spiro, if we assume t ...

end p.409 although in most other ways in startling contrast to Christianity, the cult of Moloch overlaps with it in involving th ...

good reason to conclude that it will, on that account, be what is sometimes described as a real definition, which is to say a de ...

regard as exemplary. Both of them involve Chinese ethics and so can be thought of as continuing a tradition that goes back at le ...

to cultivate them or its exercise. There is no hint that exercising that capacity without constraint is, for Mencius, even a gre ...

views on the role of more subtle deformations or sins. The second concerns their position on the principle that to know the good ...

Mencius and Aquinas thus disagree significantly about whether humans can flourish if they rely solely on their own resources. Ye ...

Christian, William A., Sr. 1987. Doctrines of Religious Communities: A Philosophical Study. New Haven: Yale University Press. Fr ...

Van Norden, Bryan W. 2001. “Mencius and Augustine on Evil: A Test Case for Comparative Philosophy.” In Two Roads to Wisdom, ed. ...

end p.421 The Early Years: Religious Language During the early decades of the twentieth century, the place of the philosophy of ...