We would like to thank all the contributing authors for their splendid articles. The time they devoted and their scholarly expertise have made this collection possible. In this context, we also want to thank Fernanda Rojas for her kind suggestions; a number of conversations with her were the source of inspiration for the theme of this book. We wish to dedicate a special word of thanks to Katalin Nun Stewart for her suggestions regarding the cover of the volume.
Institutionally, we owe a debt of gratitude to the Universidad Panamericana. We are thankful for all their help and support. We would like to thank in particular Claudio Calabrese, Nicolás Esparza and Mariana Herrera for their continuous encouragement and help in furthering our research work.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Ramiro Velázquez, the Dean of Research at the Universidad Panamericana, for his help in granting a guest professorship to Jon Stewart and thus contributing to the cooperation effort that made this book possible. This volume was produced in a joint effort between the Institute of Humanities, Universidad Panamericana, campus Aguascalientes, within the line of research “Filosofía de la religion,” and the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, in connection with the the project “Philosophical Anthropology in the Context of Current Crises of Symbolic Structures,” supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract APVV-20-0137.