Philosophy of Lived Religion: The Next Revolution?

‘Not so much thought out as danced out’: expanding philosophy of religion in the light of Candomblé

“…An overemphasis on intellectual, doctrinal, or doxastic components of religion at the expense of other aspects has been notable in philosophy of religion. It is in an effort to counteract this overemphasis that some contemporary philosophers working in this area have sought to refocus attention on 'lived religion' (Clack 2018;Knepper 2021), 'living religion' (Hewitt and Scrutton 2018), or 'the priority of practice' in religious traditions (Cottingham 2005, 151;Burley 2018). Unwittingly echoing earlier figures such as Marett, Kevin Schilbrack identifies 'intellectualism' as one of three cardinal problems with what he calls 'traditional philosophy of religion ' (2014, xi-xii), the other two problems being 'narrowness' (in the sense of a narrow preoccupation with only a small subset of religions) and 'insularity' (in the sense of a lack of engagement with other branches of philosophy and with other disciplines involved in the study of religion).…”