This edited volume contains chapters discussing Schopenhauer’s account of the criteria that distinguish philosophy from religion. It explores his account through a range of approaches, including its epistemological consistency, its application to determinate religious doctrines, its origin within Schopenhauer’s intellectual context, its relation to his accounts of aesthetic, moral and soteriological value and the epistemic status of science, as well as its reception in subsequent thinkers. 

It is the first edited volume in English devoted entirely to Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion. The contributions emerged from a lively workshop on Schopenhauer’s contrast between religious mythos and philosophical logos, held at The 4th Congress on Logic and Religion in Sinaia, Romania, in September 2023. The volume brings together a genuinely international range of perspectives, with contributors from the United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, Brazil, India and Japan. 

The book is of interest to scholars and students working on Schopenhauer, as well as to intellectual historians, theologians, cultural theorists and religious studies scholars. Although Schopenhauer's theory of religion has been well-received within Schopenhauer studies and philosophy more broadly, it has received comparatively little attention within religious studies or theology. This volume conveys the merits and contemporary relevance of Schopenhauer’s thought on religion to a wider scholarly audience.

Jens Lemanski is Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Münster and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hagen. He is co-editor of the journal "History and Philosophy of Logic" (Taylor & Francis), editorial board member of the "Logic and Religion Association", and head of the Hagen branch of the Schopenhauer Gesellschaft e.V. He has published in numerous renowned journals such as Argumentation, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Logic, and Synthese. He has also published three monographs on Schopenhauer and the philosophy of religion.
 
Christopher Ryan is Lecturer in Sociology at Southampton Solent University, where he teaches modules on politics, philosophy and the sociology of religion. His main area of expertise is, how-ever, in the philosophy of religion. His publications have focussed mainly on Schopenhauer's rela-tion to Indian religion and philosophy.

Christina Kittsteiner is a PhD Student at the Institute of Philosophy at the Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany. Her current research focuses on Arthur Schopenhauer and his Eristic Dialectic, as well as his works on logic. Further research interests include the History and Philosophy of Logic, Diagrams and Diagrammatic Logic as well as Argumentation Theory.