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Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies

✍ Scribed by Ulf Zackariasson


Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
187
Series
American Philosophy Series
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


In Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies, Ulf Zackariasson argues for the fruitfulness of pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the contemporary philosophy of religion. Zackariasson first outlines a version of pragmatic philosophy of religion that takes the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice to heart. Here, he shows that religious traditions and their secular counterparts transmit a number of paradigmatic responses that adherents can draw on in their encounters with human life’s existential contingencies. He further discusses the upshot of this approach for how we think of miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken. In each case, Zackariasson shows that a pragmatic approach offers important novel perspectives and insights that contemporary (primarily analytic) philosophy of religion tends to neglect. By relating to debates and well-known positions within the contemporary philosophy of religion, he also makes these novel perspectives and insights concrete for those who are not already committed pragmatists. The case studies thus serve as invitations to constructive dialogue within an increasingly pluralistic philosophy of religion.

✦ Table of Contents


Cover
Contents
Preface
A Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion with a Melioristic Flavor
The Pragmatic raison d’étre of Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Pragmatism and Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Melioristic Applications: Three Case Studies in the Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
What Is It to Be Religiously Mistaken? (and Why We Should Concentrate on that Question)
Our Claimed Lives
Pragmatic Pluralisms and Religious Diversities
‌‌‌‌Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the Author


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