Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Approaches to Wesley J. Wildman

Contents
1 Introduction to the Work of Wesley J. Wildman
	Notes
Part 1. Philosophical Approaches
	2 The Model(ing) Philosophy of Wesley Wildman
		Computational and Apophatic Models: Always Wrong, Sometimes Useful
		Modeling “God”
		Modeling “Religion”
		God, Forsaken … and No Religion Too
		Notes
	3 Wildman’s Reconstruction of Philosophy of Religion
		Wildman’s Reconstruction of Philosophy of Religion
		Having Hope for Correction
		Making Room for Theology
		Changing the Field and the Academy
		Notes
	4 Wesley Wildman’s Lessons for and from Ethics
		Wildman’s Method: Multidisciplinary, Comparative, Fallible Inquiry into Big Questions
		Advantages to the Multidisciplinary Comparative Fallibilist Inquiry
		Ethics Aids the Multidisciplinary, Comparative, Fallible Method
		Conclusion
		Notes
	5 Pragmatist Inquiry and the Problem of Value
		Pragmatist Inquiry
		Aesthetics and Inquiry
		Reflections on the Scientific Study of Religion from the Standpoint of Aesthetics
		Notes
Part 2: Theological Approaches
	6 Pragmatism and the Future of Philosophical Theology
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		V
		Notes
	7 Committing Theology in the Secular University
		Introduction
		Three Models of Theology in the Secular Academy
		Which Theological Tasks Belong in the Secular University?
		The Criteria for Theology in the Secular Academy
		An Example of Comparative Religious Philosophy
		Notes
	8 Wesley Wildman’s Theology
		Theology’s Public
		Comparative Erudition
		Hypothesis and Understanding
		The Backstory of Anthropomorphism
		God and Ultimacy
		Apophaticism
		Religious Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion
		Notes
	9 Wildman’s Effing Symbology
		Introduction
		What is Ultimacy?
		Three Philonian Inconveniences
		What is Symbolic Meaning?
		Between Semantics and Pragmatics
		Effing the Ineffable
		In Defense of the Analytic Ascetic
		Notes
	10 Nature and Homo religiosus in Wildman’s Science and Religious Anthropology
		Religious Naturalism and the Nature of Nature
		Homo Religiosus and the Sacred
		Conclusion
Part 3: Scientific Approaches
	11 Relating within Wildman’s Integrative Engagement with Psychology, Spirituality, and Humility
		Relational Interdisciplinarity
		Philosophical and Methodological Pluralism
		Interdisciplinary Realism
		Multidimensional Humility
		Relational Spirituality, Humility, and Ultimacy Manifestations
		Loneliness
		Intensity
		Bliss
		Conclusion
		Notes
	12 Wildman’s Contributions to the Neuroscience of Religious and Spiritual Experiences
		Introduction
		Religious Naturalism and RSEs
		Wildman’s Work on the Neurologic and Phenomenologic Properties of RSEs
		Conclusion
		Notes
	13 Religious and Spiritual Experiences: An Imagined Dialogue with Wesley Wildman
		Notes
	14 The Man Who Receives Too Many Emails: Exploring the Construction of Wildman’s Institutional Reality
		My Colleague Riding Shotgun
		Entering Wildman’s Wild World: The Birth of a Journal
			International Conference on the Evolution of Religion
			Publish or Perish
			Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion
			IBCSR Research Review
			The Grateful Dead School of Business
			What’s in a Name?
			Naked Supernatural Beings
			Religion, Brain & Behavior
			From IBCSR to CMAC
		Anthropologist Plays Psychoanalyst
			Brain-Group Nexus
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
	15 Response to Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective
		Note
Author Bios
Index