The varieties of transcendence : pragmatism and the theory of religion / Magnus Schlette, Matthias Jung, Hans Joas; Hermann Deuser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joas, Hans, Author.

Jung, Matthias, Author.

Contributor:

Deuser, Hermann, Editor.

Series:

American Philosophy (FUP)

American Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Varieties of Transcendence traces American pragmatist thought on religion and its relevance for theorizing religion today. The volume establishes pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as powerful alternatives to the more common secularization discourse. In stressing the importance of Josiah Royce’s work, it emphasizes religious individualism’s compatibility with community. At the same time, by covering all of the major classical pragmatist theories of religion, it shows their kinship and common focus on the interrelation between the challenges of contingency and the semiotic significance of transcendence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Pragmatic Methodology in the Philosophy of Religion: Perspectives of Classical American Pragmatism

Insomnia on a Moral Holiday: On the Moral Luck, Reward, and Punishment of a Jamesian “Sick Soul”

Expressive Theism: Personalism, Pragmatism, and Religion

Ontological Faith in Dewey’s Religious Idealism

Qualitative Experience and Naturalized Religion: An Inner Tension in Dewey’s Thought?

Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Genealogy in the Study of Religion

“. . . How you understand . . . can only be shown by how you live”: Putnam’s Reconsideration of Dewey’s Common Faith

A Brief History of Theosemiotic: From Scotus through Peirce and Beyond

“Man’s highest developments are social”: The Individual and the Social in Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion

The Dissenting Voice of Charles Peirce: Individuality, Community, and Transfiguration

Religious Experience and Its Interpretation: Reflections on James and Royce

Avoiding the Dichotomy of “ either the individual or the collectivity”: Josiah Royce on Community, and on James’s Concept of Religion

Pragmatic or Pragmatist/Pragmaticist Philosophy of Religion?

Theory of Religion in a Pragmatic Philosophical Theology

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-7238-9

0-8232-6760-1

0-8232-6759-8

OCLC:

939195514