Deuser / Joas / Jung The Varieties of Transcendence

Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8232-6758-3
Verlag: Fordham University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, EPUB

The Varieties of Transcendence traces American pragmatist thought on religion and its relevance for theorizing religion today. The volume establishes pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as powerful alternatives to the more common secularization discourse. In stressing the importance of Josiah Royce’s work, it emphasizes religious individualism’s compatibility with community. At the same time, by covering all of the major classical pragmatist theories of religion, it shows their kinship and common focus on the interrelation between the challenges of contingency and the semiotic significance of transcendence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joas, Hans

Jung, Matthias

Schlette, Magnus

Deuser, Hermann

Über Autor(innen)

Hans Joas (Author)

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


Matthias Jung (Author)

Matthias Jung is professor for practical philosophy at Koblenz University.


Magnus Schlette (Author)

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