Reimagining the Sacred: Richard Kearney Debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo, David Tracy, Jens Zimmermann, and Merold Westphal (Insurrections: Critica

Contemporary conversations about religion and culture are framed by two reductive definitions of secularity. In one, multiple faiths and nonfaiths coexist free from a dominant belief in God. In the other, we deny the sacred altogether and exclude religion from rational thought and behavior. But is there a third way for those who wish to rediscover the sacred in a skeptical society? What kind of faith, if any, can be proclaimed after the ravages of the Holocaust and the many religion-based terrors since? Richard Kearney explores these questions with a host of philosophers known for their inclusive, forward-thinking work on the intersection of secularism, politics, and religion. Richard Kearney holds the Charles H. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Strangers, Gods, and Monsters, The God Who May Be, and Anatheism: Returning to God After God. Jens Zimmermann holds the Canada Research Chair for Interpretation, Religion, and Culture at Trinity Western University. He has published widely on philosophy, theology, and literary theory. He is the author of Humanism and Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture and Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction. Preface, by Richard Kearney Introduction, by Jens Zimmermann 1. God After God: An Anatheist Attempt to Reimagine God, by Richard Kearney 2. Imagination, Anatheism, and the Sacred, by Richard Kearney and James Wood 3. Beyond the Impossible, by Richard Kearney and Catherine Keller 4. Transcendent Humanism in a Secular Age, by Richard Kearney and Charles Taylor 5. New Humanism and the Need to Believe, by Richard Kearney and Julia Kristeva 6. Anatheism, Nihilism, and Weak Thought, by Richard Kearney and Gianni Vattimo 7. What's God? "A Shout in the Street, by Richard Kearney and Simon Critchley 8. The Death of the Death of God, by Richard Kearney and Jean-Luc Marion 9. Anatheism and Radical Hermeneutics, by Richard Kearney and John Caputo 10. Theism, Atheism, Anatheism, by David Tracy, Merold Westphal, and Jens Zimmermann Epilogue: In Guise of a Response, by Richard Kearney Artist's Note, by Sheila Gallagher Index