Pragmatic Inquiry and Religious Communities

✍ Scribed by Brandon Daniel-Hughes

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 274
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines the ways in which religious communities experimentally engage the world and function as fallible inquisitive agents, despite frequent protests to the contrary. Using the philosophy of inquiry and semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, it develops unique naturalist conceptions of religious meaning and ultimate orientation while also arguing for a reappraisal of the ways in which the world’s venerable religious traditions enable novel forms of communal inquiry into what Peirce termed “vital matters.” Pragmatic inquiry, it argues, is a ubiquitous and continuous phenomenon. Thus, religious participation, though cautiously conservative in many ways, is best understood as a variety of inhabited experimentation. Religious communities embody historically mediated hypotheses about how best to engage the world and curate networks of semiotic resources for rendering those engagements meaningful. Religions best fulfill their inquisitive function when they both deploy and reform their sign systems as they learn better to engage reality.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix
Inquiry and Living Hypotheses (Brandon Daniel-Hughes)....Pages 1-24
Correction: A Double-Edged Sword (Brandon Daniel-Hughes)....Pages 25-54
Selves, Communities, and Signs (Brandon Daniel-Hughes)....Pages 55-100
Anthropology and the Religious Hypothesis (Brandon Daniel-Hughes)....Pages 101-128
Religion and Traditions of Inquiry (Brandon Daniel-Hughes)....Pages 129-180
Religion as Communal Inquiry (Brandon Daniel-Hughes)....Pages 181-229
Back Matter ....Pages 231-250

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Pragmatism; Religion and Society; Sociology of Religion

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