| College: | Institute for Christian Studies |
| Degrees: | PhD (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) |
| Email: | rkuipers@icscanada.edu |
| Phone: | 416-979-2331 ext 227 |
| Teaching Category: |
Affiliate Cross-Appointment
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| Appointment Status: |
Basic Degree
GCTS Full
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Bio
Professor of Philosophy of Religion
President, Institute for Christian Studies
Director, Centre for Philosophy Religion and Social Ethics, Institute for Christian Studies
BA (The King’s University), MPhil (The Institute for Christian Studies), PhD (VU University, Amsterdam)
Ronald A. Kuipers specializes in the philosophy of religion, in conversation with the intellectual traditions of American pragmatism, critical theory, and hermeneutics. His research and teaching focus on the continuing social and political relevance of religious life patterns in pluralistic Western societies, and asks how this cultural context shapes the different ways that religion comes to expression today. He is the author of Critical Faith: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Religious Life and its Public Accountability (Rodopi, 2002), and, most recently, Richard Rorty (Bloomsbury, 2013), a volume in Bloomsbury's Contemporary American Thinkers series.
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Specializations
- Religion in the Public Sphere (Richard Rorty, Hannah Arendt, Political Theology)
- Faith and Reason (Religion and the Enlightenment, Religion and Critical Theory, Religion and Pragmatism)
- The Meaning of Religious Language (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, Ordinary Language Philosophy)
- Religion, Secularization, and Democracy (John Dewey, Charles Taylor, Jeffrey Stout, Jürgen Habermas)
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Publications
- Kind of Blue: Lamenting the Failures of Settler Christianity in a Twilight Civilization. In Toronto Journal of Theology, 37/2 (2021): 219-30
- Successful Prophecies, Failed Hopes? Richard Rorty on the Demise of Social Justice. In Revisiting Richard Rorty (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020): 25-36
- Nothing but Nihilism? The Spirit of Purposelessness in James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life. In Nihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia, ed. Masahiro Morioka, Journal of the Philosophy of Life, 7/1 (2017): 50-69
- Turning Memory into Prophecy: Roberto Unger and Paul Ricoeur on the Human Condition between Past and Future. In The Heythrop Journal, 58/5 (September 2017): 806-15
- Cross-Pressured Authenticity: Charles Taylor on the Modern Challenges to Religious Identity in a Secular Age. In Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 20/1 (Spring 2016): 32-51
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