Kant and the meaning of religion :the critical philosophy & modern religious thought Terry F. Godlove.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Concepts -- I. Enough is Not Everything -- II. The Spatial Theory of Concepts -- III. Preliminary Implications -- 2. Definition -- I. Varieties of Definition -- II. Religion in General -- III. Criticism -- IV. Essentialism -- 3. Reason -- I. The Theorizing Mind -- II. Regulative and Constitutive -- III. Reconstruction -- IV. A Ptolemaic Capstone -- 4. Experience -- I. Kant's Non-conceptualism -- II. On Religion -- III. Proudfoot's Criticisms -- IV. The Christian Faith -- V. Dependence and Illusion -- 5. Self -- I. James, the subjective, and the social -- II. Kant on self-awareness -- III. The social construction of apperception -- IV. Varieties of conformity today: social, religious, epistemic -- 6. Meaning -- I. Explanations of meaning in terms of use -- II. A deflationary account of "God" -- III. From philosophy of religion to religious studies.

Kant and Religion is a subtle and penetrating attempt, by a leading contemporary philosopher of religion, to redefine and reshape the contours of his own discipline through sustained reflection on Kant's so-called 'humanizing project'.