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Epistemic Issues in Non-classical Religious Belief
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This Special Issue addresses philosophical questions regarding various non-classical religious beliefs. The contemporary philosophy of religion includes an active and venerable tradition of arguments concerning religious beliefs. While some new approaches address different questions, the vast majority address the belief in and nature of God. Frequently, ‘God’ is defined as a perfect being: a supernatural being with the greatest powers and qualities (omniscience, omnibenevolence, necessity, omnipresence, etc.) who created the universe. This concept of God is often labeled as ‘classical theism.’ While defining ‘God’ as a perfect being is fairly common in Abrahamic religious traditions, it is far less prevalent in non-Western traditions. In Indian religions, Gods are bound by karma and therefore not omnipotent. In Afro-American traditions, vodoun or loa are sometimes regarded as localized and therefore not omni-present. Many adherents of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism also hold beliefs on ‘intermediary’ supernatural beings that lack perfection, such as angels, demons, and Jinn. This Special Issue contains publications that discuss various topics pertaining to non-classical religious beliefs, including the epistemic features of belief in spirits or demons, belief in angels, belief in animism, process theism, Indian beliefs and practices, Chinese philosophy of religion, Afro-Brazilian practices, and neo-pagan spirituality.
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Keywords
- affect
- Afro-Brazilian religions
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Angels
- animism
- Asatru
- axial age
- Belief
- Bengal
- body
- Candomblé
- Charles Hartshorne
- classical Greece
- classical theism
- Cognitive science
- colonialism
- common consent arguments
- conceptual metaphor
- Demonology
- Demons
- Devil
- dhak
- Dharma
- dipolar theism
- Disagreement
- Drum
- Durgā
- embodied paradigm
- Enactivism
- Ethics
- explanatory reasoning
- Explication
- extended mind
- gaps-based objections
- Ghosts
- Giordano Bruno
- gnoseology
- Humanities
- inference to the best explanation
- Interprétation
- John Hick
- Joshua Sijuwade
- Karma
- languaging
- logic
- Mental Disorders
- merit
- Metaphysics
- methodological naturalism
- mind
- Mircea Eliade
- monopolar theism
- Mythology
- Natural theology
- neoclassical theism
- neopagan
- Norse
- pagan
- Paul Tillich
- Philosophy of religion
- Plato
- platonic forms
- process theism
- rebirth
- Religion & beliefs
- religious cognition
- religious experience
- religious practice
- Ritual
- Sacred space
- Satan
- Shiva
- social epistemology
- soteriology
- Sound
- South Asia
- Spirits
- spiritual entities
- the criteria of adequacy
- the scientific method
- the supernatural
- the West
- transfer of merit
- Umbanda
- Wang Yangming
- Yoga
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8127-9Editions