Abstract

One of the most controversial features of Alfred North Whitehead’s enormous influence on how philosophers and theologians think about God and religion is the close connection he sees between religion and solitariness in his classic work Religion in the Making.1 The purposes of the present article are: to understand the connection White-head sees between religion and solitariness; to understand why Whitehead’s view of this connection is so controversial; and nonetheless to defend the close connection that Whitehead sees. Regarding this last purpose, I will appeal to authors who write from or about the “Bloodlands,” a term coined by the historian Timothy Snyder that refers to a large..