Nature's Religion
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780847687503
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Semiology; Religious; Philosophy; Theology - Academic; Religion; Religious aspects; Psychology of Religion; Religion / Theology; Philosophical theology; General; Nature
Description: In the wake of both the semiotic and the psychoanalytic revolutions, how is it possible to describe the object of religious worship in realist terms? Semioticians argue that each object is known only insofar as it gives birth to a series of signs and interpretants (new signs). From the psychoanalytic side, religious beliefs are seen to belong to transference energies and projections that contaminate the religious object with all-too-human complexes.

In Nature's Religion distinguished theologian and philosopher Robert S. Corrington weaves together the concept of infinite semiosis with that of the transference to show that the self does have access to something in nature that is intrinsically religious. Corrington argues that signs and our various transference fields can and do connect us with fully natural religious powers that are not of our own making, thereby opening up a path past the Western monotheisms to a capacious religion of nature. With a foreword by Robert C.

Neville, Nature's Religion is essential reading for philosophers of religion, scholars of the psychology of religion, and theologians.