This collection brings together essays by a variety of contemporary philosophers who are working in the philosophy of religion. All are informed by contemporary continental philosophy, including its critique of illusion internal to reason as such; all are concerned to reconceive the place of religion for critical thought, following the "turn to religion" in continental philosophy. Some contributors identify ruptures in the boundaries of reason itself through a concern with poetics, conscience, responsibility, the infinite and the impossible. Others locate reason in relations to history, gender and culture. Some affirm the shaping of reason by theological tradition, spiritual practice and ritual performance.