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33Pluralism, ReligiousInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2016.Religious Pluralism Religious pluralism, broadly construed, is a response to the diversity of religious beliefs, practices, and traditions that exist both in the contemporary world and throughout history. The terms “pluralism” and “pluralist” can, depending on context or intended use, signify anything from the mere fact of religious diversity to a particular kind of philosophical … Continue reading Pluralism, Religious →
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29An interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Scripture, society, and traditional wisdomJournal of Philosophy and Scripture 2 (1): 39-43. 2004.
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507The Aporias of Justice and the Virtue of Un-inheritancePhilosophia 41 (2): 373-382. 2013.This paper contends that Ananda Abeysekara’s notion of un-inheritance, developed via a Derridean analysis of contemporary Sri Lankan politics and society, can act as a helpful supplement to the concept of justice. What one finds in Abeysekara’s analysis is an interpretation of justice as ultimately aporetic: justice both opens up to the possibility of its ever greater concrete realization and continually defers its completion. This paper begins by examining the aporetic character of justice as a…Read more
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463Hospitality in and beyond Religions and PoliticsDerrida Today 8 (2): 215-237. 2015.This paper examines Derrida's treatment of the quasi-transcendental structure of hospitality, particularly as it pertains to religious traditions, conceptions of human rights, and modern secularism. It begins by looking to the account Derrida presents in 'Hostipitality', focusing especially on his treatment of the work of Louis Massignon. It then proceeds to an exploration of Kant’s concept of cosmopolitanism and some of its contemporary descendants before returning to Derrida’s treatment of hos…Read more
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Critical Reflections on Philosophy & Theology: An InterviewJournal of Philosophy and Scripture 1 (2). 2004.
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423Matter and Machine in Derrida’s Account of ReligionSophia 54 (3): 265-279. 2015.Jacques Derrida’s ‘Faith and Knowledge’ presents an account of the complex relationship between religion and technoscience that disrupts their traditional boundaries by uncovering both an irreducible faith at the heart of science and an irreducible mechanicity at the heart of religion. In this paper, I focus on the latter, arguing that emphases in Derrida’s text on both the ‘sources’ of religion and its interaction with modern technologies underemphasize the ways in which a general ‘mechanicity’…Read more
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An Interview with EP Sanders: Paul, Context and InterpretationJournal of Philosophy and Scripture 2 (2). 2005.
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University of Arkansas, Little RockDepartment of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary StudiesAssistant Professor
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Continental Philosophy |