The last half century has seen both attempts to demythologize the idea of God into purely secular forces and the resurgence of the language of “God” as indispensable to otherwise secular philosophers for describing experience. This volume asks whether “piety” might be a sort of irreducible human problematic: functioning both inside and outside religion.

The contributors: Francis J. Ambrosio, S. Clark Buckner, John D. Caputo, Tina Chanter, Alphonso Lingis, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Charles E. Scott, Matthew Statler, Merold Westphal, Jason K. Winfree, David Wood, and Edith Wyschogrod.