The self is as a lens through which to study religion: Keiji Nishitani’s Religion and Nothingness revisited

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Published inHervormde teologiese studies Vol. 77; no. 2; pp. e1 - e7
Main Author Mason, Garth J.
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Published Pretoria African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS 20.07.2021
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20th century
Culture
death
Death & dying
Derrida, Jacques
Identity
nishitani
Nishitani, Keiji
Philosophy
Posthumanism
purpose
Religion
Religious conversion
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schweitzer, Albert
Secularism
self
Social aspects
Society
Sociology
Spirituality
United Kingdom
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AbstractList This article offers an analysis of Keiji Nishitani's understanding of the religious self as a window into his wider understanding of religion. It serves two purposes: to motivate for a revisiting of Nishitani's book Religion and Nothingness (1983) and to argue that his ideas offer innovative approaches to contemporary Religious Studies. The self is the focus of Nishitani's understanding of religion. Nishitani argues that the self is in crisis, rooted in the following question: 'For what purpose do I exist?' At the point of our deepest doubt (what he terms 'the Great Doubt') emerges an awareness of nothingness. That paradoxically leads to the potential for conversion: a uniquely religious experience. Nishitani's analysis of religion and the self in crisis is valuable for the study of the religion more broadly because it locates the self as an important focus in the study of religion. Nishitani's argument for the importance of religion and conversion in peoples' lives foreshadowed two contemporary theoretical topics in the study of religion, namely posthumanism and postsecularism. To be human, to be aware of one's death as a human being and the absolute doubt it causes, drives us to understand that we share the same fate as all life in the wider ecology and forces us to recognise that we share our creatureliness with all other life forms. Postsecularism is based on the prevalence of religion globally, despite predictions of its demise by secularists. This article reads the later writings of Derrida in the frame of postsecularism. Contribution This article contributes to the current research into religious experience in the field of Religious Studies. It also suggests that the current sociological research of religious expression concentrates on identity advocacy but does not acknowledge the opposite issue of identities in crisis. This article addresses the dearth of research on the latter.
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Culture
death
Death & dying
Derrida, Jacques
Identity
nishitani
Nishitani, Keiji
Philosophy
Posthumanism
purpose
Religion
Religious conversion
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schweitzer, Albert
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