Religion in Reason: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in Hent De Vries (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

"This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the relation between religion and violence, secularism, and sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de Vries's work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics, and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Contributors Introduction 1. Theology on Edge 2. Violence, Religion, Metaphysics 3. Imagination, Theolatry, and the Compulsion to Worship the Invisible 4. Theology’s Figures of Abandon: Revisiting the Topic of Original Affirmation 5. Theology as Searchlight: Miracle, Event, and the Place of the Natural 6. Are Miracles Possible?: Avicenna Revisited 7. On Laws and Miracles 8. Spiritual Exercises in the Age of Their Technological Reproducibility 9. Violence Inside-Out: Staring into the Sun with Georges Bataille 10. The Graft of the Cat: Derrida, Kofman and the Question of the Animal 11. Corpus Mysticum: Henri de Lubac, Ernst Kantorowicz, Hent de Vries 12. Spiritual Exercises in Political Theory: John Rawls with Hent de Vries 13. Adorno’s Secular Theology 14. Religion as Pretext, Art as Counter-Text 15. Anti-Retractationes: On Inexistence, Divine, and Other Appendix: List of Hent de Vries’s Works Index