Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs suggests new ways of thinking about moral philosophy in its under-explored but potentially very fruitful encounter with philosophy of religion. The contributors to this volume undertake this project through a variety of novel approaches, via literature, psychoanalysis, history of philosophy, continental and feminist thought, as well as by means of analytic philosophy. The volume will include essays by both highly regarded academics who have already made significant contributions in the fields of moral and/or religious philosophy - and a select number of young, up-and-coming researchers, who will add fresh voices to the debate.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; CLUSTER ONE: SELF/OTHER RELATIONS; 1. Morality, Metaphysics and Religion Raimond Gaita (Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London); 2. Love, Hate and Moral Inclusion Anca Gheaus (Research Fellow in Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam); 3. The Discipline of Pius Reason: Goethe, Herder, Kant Daniel Whistler (Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy and Theology, University of Oxford); CLUSTER TWO: THE FRAGILITY OF LIFE; 4. On Loss of Confidence: Dissymmetry, Doubt, Deprivation in the Power to Act and (the Power) to Suffer Pamela Sue Anderson (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford); 5. The Passionate Life: On Grief and Human Experience James Carter (Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy and Theology, University of Oxford); 6. A Ricoeurian Hymn to Humanity: "You are better than your actions" Michele Kueter Petersen (Doctoral Candidate in Modern Religious Thought, University of Iowa); CLUSTER THREE: PHILOSOPHY VIA ART; 7. Love and Transcendence Martin Warner (Associate Fellow in Philosophy, University of Warwick); 8. Philosophy, Morality and the Self: Against Thinness Christopher Hamilton (Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, King's College London); 9. The Holy Doubt: Jack Kerouac and Postmodernism Joseph Carlisle (Doctoral Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford); CLUSTER FOUR: THE VITALITY OF BELIEF; 10. Religion in its Material Context: Some Considerations Drawn from Contemporary Philosophies of Place Mark Wynn (Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Exeter); 11. Play, Psychoanalysis and Feminist Philosophy of Religion Beverley Clack (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University); 12. Religious Belief and the Disregard of Reality Brian Clack (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of San Diego).