The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion by Clayton Crockett, B Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W Robbins

Book review: The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. 352 pp.; ISBN 9780253013880 (pbk.); $40.

Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction

After reviewing the recent publications of Richard Kearney, appearing between 2017 and 2021, including an anthology of his essential writings over his career, and covering topics such as hospitality, God, religion, anatheism, theopoetics, hermeneutics, and touch, there follows a critical engagement with Kearney's work, one that sets out in particular how, despite the very considerable overlap in our work, as fellow travelers in continental philosophy of religion and hermeneutics, our positions differ on what we mean by God and by welcoming the tout autre.

Phenomenology and Ritual Practice

This paper highlights several problems in the contemporary phenomenological analysis of religious experience in Continental philosophy of religion, especially in its French iteration, as manifested in such thinkers as Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Emmanuel Falque, and others. After laying out the main issues, the paper proposes a fuller investigation of religious practices, such as liturgy or ritual, as a fruitful way to address some of the identified limitations. The final section of the paper assesses what questions remain and how one might draw on existing resources in these thinkers to push a phenomenological analysis of religious practices further in ways that broaden phenomenology of religion beyond its current somewhat narrow strictures and commitments.