The Varieties of Transcendence [electronic resource].
Deuser, Hermann.
Joas, Hans.
Jung, Matthias.
Schlette, Magnus.
The anthology focuses on the major classical pragmatist theories of religion. It is unique in pointing out pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as alternatives to the common secularization discourse and by stressing the compatibility of religious individualism with a positive concept of community.
Specialized.
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Cover; 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 FaithA 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; List of Contributors; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
The anthology focuses on the major classical pragmatist theories of religion. It is unique in pointing out pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as alternatives to the common secularization discourse and by stressing the compatibility of religious individualism with a positive concept of community.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2016).
Religion
Pragmatism.