Philosophy of Religion After "Religion"

Long framed in terms of Christian and secularist concerns, the 6eld of philosophy of religion has recently been attempting to expand to include a wider, more diverse variety of religious phenomena. At the same time, a growing body of literature within religious studies has called attention to the historical genealogy and limitations of the category of »religion.&« If »religion&« is itself a modern, secular extrapolation from Christian understandings, disseminated globally through colonial encounter, does the apparently more capacious approach to philosophy of religion simply reproduce the de6ciencies of the old under the guise of a false universal? The present volumeseeks to move the 6eld in the direction of a re;exive turn, toward an examination of the philosophical implications of the concept of »religion."