Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion - Melioristic Case Studies

Taking the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice seriously, this book argues for the fruitfulness of a pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the philosophy of religion: miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken.

List of contents

Preface
Part I: A Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion with a Melioristic Flavor
1. The Pragmatic raison d'étre of Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
2. Pragmatism and Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Part II: Melioristic Applications: Three Case Studies in the Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
3. What Is It to Be Religiously Mistaken? (and Why We Should Concentrate on That Question)
4. Our Claimed Lives: Meliorism, Miracles and the Miraculous
5. Pragmatic Pluralisms and Religious Diversities: Diapractice and Existential Agent-Regret
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Ulf Zackariasson

Summary

Taking the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice seriously, this book argues for the fruitfulness of a pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the philosophy of religion: miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken.

Product details

• Authors: Ulf Zackariasson, Zackariasson Ulf
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781666903010
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-301-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: American Philosophy Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion