
Prof. Kevin Schilbrack (PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School) is Professor of Religious Studies at Appalachian State University. The author of Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto (Blackwell 2014) and the contributing editor of Thinking through Myths (Routledge 2002) and Thinking through Rituals (Routledge 2004), he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Uppsala, Vrije University Amsterdam, and the University of Birmingham. He is presently writing on the relevance of embodied cognition and social ontology for understanding what religion is and how it works.
In his book, Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto, Prof. Schilbrack makes a series of arguments and proposals regarding the tasks of a philosophy of religion and its relationship, on the one hand to philosophy, on the other to the study of religions. Prof. Sebastian Gäb (LMU) and Prof. Robert Yelle (LMU) will open a conversation with Prof. Schilbrack about the future of these disciplines. This event is sponsored by the LMU Center for Religion and Philosophy.