Despite recent moves among philosophers of religion to avoid undue abstraction by giving closer attention to religion’s practical dimensions, such moves commonly remain limited to a relatively narrow

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• “Mountains of Flesh and Seas of Blood”: Reflecting Philosophically on Animal Sacrifice through Dramatic Fiction (2017) · doi

  Despite recent moves among philosophers of religion to avoid undue abstraction by giving closer attention to religion’s practical dimensions, such moves commonly remain limited to a relatively narrow range of religious traditions.

  Keywords: moves religion despite recent among philosophers avoid undue abstraction giving closer attention practical dimensions commonly
• Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta–Analysis of Recent Studies (2003) · doi

  Specific focus was given to the issue of definition, namely, whether differences in researchers’ conceptualizations of religiosity and mental health could account for the various contradictory findings by psychologists of religion.

  Keywords: specific focus given issue definition namely whether differences researchers conceptualizations religiosity mental health account various
• The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making (2018) · doi

  With the bold predictions of the secularization thesis as their stimuli, many sociologists and anthropologists preferred to focus on the under-explored, marginalized, or otherwise unexpected expressions of religion within those ostensibly secularizing contexts.

  Keywords: bold predictions secularization thesis stimuli sociologists anthropologists preferred focus explored marginalized otherwise unexpected expressions religion