Radical Interpretation in Religion is addressed to those interested in current method and theory in the study of religion. It consists of original essays by ten of the most interesting writers on the subject today. They offer radical interpretations of religious belief in the style of Donald Davidson, Robert Brandom, Richard Rorty, and William James, as well as new explorations in cultural anthropology and cognitive science, and critical appraisals of the history of religions as influenced by the Romantic movement and other developments from Durkheim to Lévi Strauss.