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Understanding Hume's natural history of religion
Published 2007“…Hume's 'Natural History of Religion' offers a naturalized account of the causes of religious thought, an investigation into its 'origins' rather than its 'foundation in reason'. …”
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HUME'S NATURALISTIC CRITIQUE OF RELIGION
Published 2010“…My paper addresses the senses in which Hume's naturalistic approach to religion can contribute to a critique of religion by discussing his 1757 Natural History of Religion. I compare Hume's approach with a recent paper of Raymond Geuss in order to show that Hume's approach to religion is not 'naïve' in the way that some (Geuss included) assume. …”
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Preludes and postludes to Gibbon: variations on an impromptu by J. G. A. Pocock
Published 2009“…That was marked by a desire to treat religion seriously as a driving force in history: and the same concern is applied here to further understanding an eighteenth-century controversy in which history and religion were dramatically involved, and which profoundly affected Gibbon's own historical and religious views. …”
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Andere Götter, andere Opfer: Debatten über Vegetarismus und Religion in der Türkei, am Beispiel der Werke von Hasan Ferit Cansever und Asaf Halet Çelebi
Published 2022“…In the case of Turkey, the study of dietary normativity offers the possibility of contributing to a different history of religions in Turkey.…”
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