PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
“As a contemporary introduction to philosophy of religion, it is a God-send
or, if you prefer, a dharma-gift. Keith Yandell succeeds admirably in
producing a textbook which has clarity, wit and rigour and that engages
religion in its historical and cultural diversity... He grasps that religious
traditions are irreducibly different: they make different types of claims,
argue from different sorts of grounds, cultivate diverse values and aim at
divergent goals.”
John Clayton, Boston University
“The central strength of the book is its willingness to argue points out in
detail rather than just reporting on arguments. It is a model of rigorous
argument applied to questions of religion.”
Mark Wynn, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane
Philosophy of Religion is one of the first comprehensive textbooks to
consider the subject with reference to religions other than Christianity. As
an experienced textbook author and an established generalist in philosophy
of religion, Keith Yandell deals lucidly and constructively with
representative views and competing issues from Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, Buddhism and Jainism. He also shows how such issues and
competing views can be rationally assessed. He includes discussion of major
philosophical figures in religious traditions as well as important
contemporary philosophers. This engaging text will appeal to students of
both philosophy and religion as well as to the general reader interested in
the subject.
Keith E. Yandell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. He has written widely on philosophy and
philosophy of religion and among his most recent books are Hume’s
“Inexplicable Mystery” (1990) and The Epistemology of Religious
Experience (1995).