The Varieties of Transcendence: Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion

Hans Joas; Matthias Jung; Magnus Schlette

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

The Varieties of Transcendence

Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion

Hans Joas , Matthias Jung and Magnus Schlette
Edited by: Hermann Deuser

In the series American Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823267590

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Deuser Hermann :

Hermann Deuser is professor emeritus at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University.Joas Hans :

Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.Jung Matthias :

Matthias Jung is professor for practical philosophy at Koblenz University.Schlette Magnus :

Magnus Schlette is Permanent Fellow at the FEST–Protestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Heidelberg.

Reviews

—Kenneth Stikkers:
While much scholarship has focused on naturalism in American pragmatism, this is the first anthology that offers a comprehensive look at transcendence in that tradition. It is thus an extremely important contribution to scholarship in the field.

—Roger A. Ward:
This volume explores the rich seam of religious meaning running through the classical figures of pragmatism. The essays employ topical, historical, and speculative approaches to a wide array of texts, with an emphasis on Peirce, comprising a feast of ideas and continuing questions circulating pragmatism's role in the tradition of philosophy, transcendence, and God.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Hermann Deuser, Hans Joas, Matthias Jung and Magnus Schlette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Pragmatic Methodology in the Philosophy of Religion: Perspectives of Classical American Pragmatism Christoph Seibert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Insomnia on a Moral Holiday: On the Moral Luck, Reward, and Punishment of a Jamesian “Sick Soul” Sami Pihlström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Expressive Theism: Personalism, Pragmatism, and Religion Christian Polke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Ontological Faith in Dewey’s Religious Idealism Victor Kestenbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Qualitative Experience and Naturalized Religion: An Inner Tension in Dewey’s Thought? Matthias Jung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Genealogy in the Study of Religion Wayne Proudfoot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
“. . . How you understand . . . can only be shown by how you live”: Putnam’s Reconsideration of Dewey’s Common Faith Magnus Schlette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
A Brief History of Theosemiotic: From Scotus through Peirce and Beyond Michael L. Raposa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
“Man’s highest developments are social”: The Individual and the Social in Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion Gesche Linde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
The Dissenting Voice of Charles Peirce: Individuality, Community, and Transfiguration Vincent Colapietro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Religious Experience and Its Interpretation: Reflections on James and Royce Hans Joas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Avoiding the Dichotomy of “ either the individual or the collectivity”: Josiah Royce on Community, and on James’s Concept of Religion Ludwig Nagl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Pragmatic or Pragmatist/Pragmaticist Philosophy of Religion? Hermann Deuser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Theory of Religion in a Pragmatic Philosophical Theology Robert Cummings Neville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Community; Contingency; Individualism; modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Pragmatism; religion; Secularization; semiotics; transcendance

eBook

Published: February 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780823267590