Abstract

There is wide agreement among philosophers of religion that the discipline should be responsive to the multicultural environment in which it is now practiced. However, there is considerable disagreement as to what the appropriate practice and method of the discipline should be within such an environment. It has been suggested that philosophy of religion should become comparative, and courses in comparative philosophy of religion are already increasingly commonplace. But what exactly is comparative philosophy of religion, and how should it be practiced? This paper tackles these questions, after first providing a brief sketch of some prominent methodological disagreements within contemporary philosophy of religion.