The Varieties of Transcendence

"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." -- -Kenneth Stikkers Southern Illinois University "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." -- -Roger A. Ward Georgetown College

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 FESTProtestant Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Heidelberg.

Introduction 1. Pragmatic Methodology in the Philosophy of Religion Christoph Seibert 2. Insomnia on a Moral Holiday: On the Moral Luck, Reward, and Punishment of a Jamesian, Sick Soul Sami Pihlstrom 3. Expressive Theism. Personalism, Pragmatism, and Religion Christian Polke 4. Ontological Faith in Dewey's Religious Idealism Victor Kestenbaum 5. Qualitative Experience and Naturalized Religion: An Inner Tension in Dewey's Thought? Matthias Jung 6. Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Genealogy in the Study of Religion Wayne Proudfoot 7. "... how you understand ... can only be shown by how you live": Putnam's Reconsideration of Dewey's Common Faith Magnus Schlette 8. A Brief History of Theosemiotic: From Scotus through Peirce and beyond Michael Raposa 9. "Man's highest developments are social": The Individual and the Social in Peirce's Philosophy of Religion Gesche Linde 10. The Dissenting Voice of Charles Peirce: Individuality, Community, and Transfiguration Vincent Colapietro 11. Religious Experience and its Interpretation: Reflections on James and Royce Hans Joas 12. Avoiding the Dichotomy of either the individual or the collectivity: Josiah Royce on Community, and on James' Concept of Religion Ludwig Nagl 13. Pragmatic or Pragmatist/Pragmaticist Philosophy of Religion? Hermann Deuser 14. Theory of Religion in a Pragmatic Philosophical Theology Robert Cummings Neville Notes Index