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Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Department of Theology, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8963-2052
2022 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies, Ulf Zackariasson argues for the fruitfulness of pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the contemporary philosophy of religion. Zackariasson first outlines a version of pragmatic philosophy of religion that takes the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice to heart. Here, he shows that religious traditions and their secular counterparts transmit a number of paradigmatic responses that adherents can draw on in their encounters with human life’s existential contingencies. He further discusses the upshot of this approach for how we think of miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken. In each case, Zackariasson shows that a pragmatic approach offers important novel perspectives and insights that contemporary (primarily analytic) philosophy of religion tends to neglect. By relating to debates and well-known positions within the contemporary philosophy of religion, he also makes these novel perspectives and insights concrete for those who are not already committed pragmatists. The case studies thus serve as invitations to constructive dialogue within an increasingly pluralistic philosophy of religion.

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Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. , p. 198
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American Philosophy Series
Keywords [en]
Pragmatism, Religion, James, Dewey, Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion, Religious Diversity
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Religious Studies Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-490204ISBN: 9781666903010 (print)ISBN: 9781666903027 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-490204DiVA, id: diva2:1717150
Available from: 2022-12-07 Created: 2022-12-07 Last updated: 2023-05-04Bibliographically approved

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