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The Sacrality of the Secular: Postmodern Philosophy of Religion
ISBN: 9780231545235
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Postmodernism -- Religious aspects; Philosophy and religion; Secularism -- History; Secularization -- History;

As philosophers in the continental tradition have taken an interest in the return of religion, anthropologists and sociologists have rejected the once-dominant secularization thesis. Bradley B. Onishi connects these lines of thought to reveal how philosophy's religious investigations have enabled critical reflections on the category of the secular.

Bradley B. Onishi (PhD, Philosophy of Religions, UC Santa Barbara) is Assistant Professor of Religion at Skidmore College. He is the author of The Sacrality of the Secular: Postmodern Philosophy of Redligion (Coliumbia, 2018), the co-author (with Louise Nelstrop and Kevin McGill) of Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches (Ashgate, 2009) the editor of Mysticism in the French Tradition: Eruptions from France (Ashgate, 2015), and the translator of Falque: The Battle of Lovers (Virginia, 2017). His work focuses on mystical traditions and contemporary philosophy and on philosophy of religion and secularity.Bradley B. Onishi is assistant professor of religion at Skidmore College. He is a coauthor of Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Theoretical Approaches (2009) and coeditor of Mysticism in the French Tradition: Eruptions from France (2015).