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I thought I was interested in Gillian Rose because I was studying the philosophy of religion. Rose seemed like the perfect guide. She articulated frustrations I felt with analytic philosophy, with French theory, and with neopragmatism, yet she persisted in doing philosophy, not just writing about philosophy. She saw questions of religion as fundamental to all philosophy, and she did so by understanding religion as much more expansive than questions about belief in God or the practice of rituals. For her, religion at its worst shuts down philosophy, taking certain commitments as given and immune from interrogation. Religion at its…