Clayton, John Powell.

Religions, reasons and gods : essays in cross-cultural philosophy of religion / John Clayton ; prepared for publication by Anne M. Blackburn and Thomas D. Carroll. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xix, 372 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-353) and index.

Claims, contexts and contestability -- Part I. Reason and religious pluralism. Thomas Jefferson and the study of religion -- Common ground and defensible difference -- Religions, reasons and gods -- Part II. Theistic arguments in pre-modern contexts. Ramanuja, Hume and 'comparative philosophy': remarks on the Sribhasya and the Dialogues concerning natural religion -- Piety and the proofs -- The otherness of Anselm -- Part III. Theistic arguments in early-modern contexts. The debate about God in early- modern French philosophy -- The Enlightenment project and the debate about God in early-modern German philosophy -- The debate about God in early-modern British philosophy -- Beyond the 'Enlightenment project'? -- Appendix: the 1997 Hulsean Sermon.

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Religion--Philosophy.
Ethnophilosophy.