EAN: 9783319941929

PRAGMATIC INQUIRY AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES - B...

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.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9783319941929

Produktinformationen zur 9783319941929