摘要：I first proposed the idea of “mashup” philosophy of religion in an essay that Iwrote in response to Nick Trakakis’s critique of my attempt to bring newphenomenology together with some aspects of analytic philosophy ofreligion.1 This special journal Issue explores possibilities for this frameworkwithin contemporary philosophy of religion. The specific hope of this issue isthat by mashing-up continental and analytic approaches to the philosophy ofreligion, constructive work is possible despite some divisions that havetraditionally been obstacles to discourse. I am extremely grateful to the editors ofthe Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Victor Taylor and Carl Raschke, fortheir support of this issue and their encouragement that the idea of mashupphilosophy of religion is worth further exploration. In this brief introduction,then, I will sketch what I mean by the phrase/metaphor and explain why it ismeant as more than just a matter of rhetoric. I do not intend it to serve as a rigiddesignator for a particular philosophical method, but instead as an expression ofhope for dialogical charity and discursive hospitality to cut across philosophicaltraditions and disciplinary borders. Mashup Philosophy of Religion, then, is offeredas a name for a promising way of encouraging philosophers of religion to holdsuch hope as a guiding principle for scholarship.
