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Review Apr 2026

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age

SOME NEW WORLD: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age by Peter Harrison. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 482 pages. Paperback; $39.99. ISBN: 9781009477246. *My students are routinely surprised when I explain that biblical authors and their audiences had no natural-supernatural distinction as we understand tho...

Joshua Bennett · History of European Ideas · 3 citations

Open access Oct 2026

Epistemology of Religion:

This article examines the conditions under which religious belief may be regarded as rational in light of contemporary debates in epistemology. Beginning with the distinction between belief and knowledge, it examines the role of epistemic justification as the element that confers stability and epistemic value upon beli...

J. Fett, Draiton Gonzaga de Souza · Veritas · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Religion, Meaning, and the Limits of Explanation: Wittgenstein on Frazer

Summary: This paper explores Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, advancing the working hypothesis that these reflections emerge at the intersection of three key ideas that Wittgenstein decisively resists. First, Wittgenstein challenges the assumption that language games can be analyzed independently of the...

R. Lima · Nordic Wittgenstein Review · 0 citations

Book 2010

Reasonable Perspectives on Religion

After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for critical discussions about religion. A religion is much more complex than a set of beliefs which cannot be proven, as the New Atheists argue. There is, in fact, much more to religion and much more to the...

Unknown authors · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Vaihinger, Hermann Cohen, and the Problem of the “As If” in Jewish Philosophy

Abstract In his Philosophie des Als-Ob, Hans Vaihinger treats religion as a fiction, that is, as a false belief that is nonetheless useful to us. He developed this view initially through his interpretation of Kant’s postulates of practical reason, which assert beliefs that are morally necessary yet theoretically empty....

M. A. Rosenthal · Kant-Studien · 0 citations

Book 2016

Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and atrophied cultural ins...