Embodied Religion. Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion

Abstract

This collection of papers is derived from the nineteenth biannual conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, held in the ‘Kontakt der Kontinenten’ in Soesterberg, the Netherlands, from 30 August to 2 September 2012, which was sponsored by the School of Catholic Theology of Tilburg University and the Department of Religious Studies and Theology of Utrecht University. The conference brought together some eighty philosophers of religion and researchers from related disciplines, most of them coming from one of the four founding regions of the ESPR, viz. the English speaking region, the North-European region, the German speaking and the Dutch speaking region. Because of the excellent reputation of these conferences over the years, scholars from Eastern and Southern Europe, and even from some non-European countries also participated, thereby enlivening and broadening the discussions about the conference theme. As usual at ESPR conferences, the 2012 conference theme was so chosen that it lent itself to both analytical and continental approaches and to the conversation between the two. Moreover, the study of ‘embodied religion’ – for this was the theme – cannot take place in isolation, but needs the input from various other disciplines. This is reflected in the current volume.