Pragmatic Inquiry and Religious Communities

Charles Peirce, Signs, and Inhabited Experiments - Previously published in hardcover

von

Daniel-Hughes, Brandon

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

250 Seiten

Englisch

Springererschienen am21.12.2018Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018

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.mehr

Verfügbare Formate

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

EUR85,59

BuchGebunden

EUR85,59

E-BookPDF1 - PDF WatermarkE-Book

EUR85,59

Auf dieser Seite:

EUR85,59

In den Warenkorb

Produkt

KlappentextThis 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.

Details

ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-06811-0

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr2018

Erscheinungsdatum21.12.2018

AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018

Seiten250 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht369 g

IllustrationenXXIX, 250 p. 3 illus.

Artikel-Nr.52023319

Rubriken

GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Inquiry and Living Hypotheses.- 2. Correction: A Double-Edged Sword.- 3. Selves, Communities, and Signs.- 4. Anthropology and the Religious Hypothesis.- 5. Religion and Traditions of Inquiry.- 6. Religion as Communal Inquiry.mehr