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The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein´s corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Wittgenstein on Religion 1. Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgenstein´s Corpus 2. Wittgenstein, Biography, and Religious Identity 3. A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion 4. The Traditions of Fideism 5. On ´Fideism´ as an Interpretive Category 6. Religions, Epistemic Isolation, and Social Trust 7. Wittgenstein´s Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion Bibliography Index

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Thomas D. Carroll is Professor of Philosophy at Xing Wei College in Shanghai, China.

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