CO-SPONSORSHIP: Anthropology of Religion Unit, Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit, and Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue Unit

Global Philosophies of Religion beyond the Text: We seek to sponsor a panel engaging with non-textual and non-Western sources for the philosophy of religion. Papers should consider forms of lived religious reasoning, argumentation, or enactment from sources other than texts, such as oral traditions, rituals, performances, arts, etc. We imagine papers that explore “philosophies from below,” including non-hegemonic and marginalized systems of knowledge, indigenous ways of knowing, conspiracy and other forms of stigmatized knowledge, peripheral epistemologies, etc., and which treat those forms of knowledge as valuable resources for cross-cultural inquiries in the philosophy of religion.