Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Philosophy’s “Turn to Religion” and Secularities
1. Different Worlds: Weber, Heidegger, and the Meaning of Life
2. Philosophizing with Religion: Secular Reenchantment in the Early
Heidegger
3. Excendence and Heterology: Religious and Secular in Interwar
Paris
4. A Prophet of the Impossible: Bataille’s Mystical Turn and
Continental Philosophy of Religion
5. The Sacrality of the Secular: On the History and End of
Philosophy of Religion
Conclusion: Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and Religious
Studies—Three Examples
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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).
The Sacrality of the Secular is a sophisticated study of religious
resources implicit in ostensibly secular culture. Onishi
demonstrates how the American appropriation of Heidegger and
post-Heideggerian philosophy contributed to “the religious turn” in
continental philosophy. The significance of this work extends far
beyond the field of religious studies. Through a critical
reassessment of theories of modernization and disenchantment,
Onishi charts new directions for cultural inquiry at a time when
the humanities have lost their way.
*Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University*
In The Sacrality of the Secular, Bradley B. Onishi seeks to answer
two questions: Does secularity equate to disenchantment? And what
and how does philosophy of religion, in particular continental
philosophy of religion, contribute to religious studies? Onishi has
done a brilliant job at the difficult task of bringing these two
questions together, showing how the answer to the second opens the
path for a creative response to the impasses to which the first has
come.
*Jeffrey Kosky, Washington and Lee University*
In his timely and welcome book, Onishi argues persuasively that
philosophers of religion working out of continental philosophy have
significant contributions to make to the study of religion and to
the study of the modern opposition between the religious and the
secular.
*Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College*
Onishi's book is clearly written, offers a thoughtful introduction
to the field of continental philosophy of religion, and lays out a
coherent case for why the secular can be sacred on its own
terms.
*Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
Valuable as a contribution to philosophical research on secularity
and as a survey of the Continental philosophy of religion after
Heidegger.
*Choice*
Onishi’s rewriting of the history of the field nevertheless
provides a constructive, and for that reason welcome vision for the
future of philosophy of religion.
*Journal of Religion*
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