Abstract

Interdisciplinary research has been emphasized as an ideal in recent decades. However, what interdisciplinarity is all about seems to be unclear. Inspired by Willem B. Drees’ What are the humanities for?, this paper attempts to shed light on the blurred landscape of interdisciplinarity with an eye to the humanities. As an introduction, I offer a Norwegian overview of the humanities and interdisciplinarity which leads to a discussion on interdisciplinary in relation to multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary. Furthermore, I elaborate one possible trajectory of philosophy of religion by addressing how this discipline can be identified as a mediator for interdisciplinarity. Philosophy of religion is explored as an endeavor taking place ‘in between’ disciplines and even transcending disciplinary boundaries. In this in-between landscape, I offer some final remarks on how interdisciplinary research is conditioned by the human factor in terms of conditions for making a flourishing environment for such an activity.