The Resource Believing and Acting : the Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics
Believing and Acting : the Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics
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- Summary
- How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and why they act the way they do? In the 1980s and '90s postmodernist worries about led to debates that turned on power, truth, and relativism. Since the turn of the century scholars impressed by 'cognitive science' have introduced concepts drawn from evolutionary biology, neurosciences, and linguistics in the attempt to provide 'naturalist' accounts of religion. Deploying concepts andarguments that have their roots in the pragmatism of C.S. Peirce, Believing and Acting argues that both approaches are misgu
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Contents; 1. Believing and Acting: The allure of method in the study of religion; 2. Peirce and the Legacy of Pragmatism; 3. Ethics, Religion, and the Limits of Empiricism; 4. Richard Rorty and the Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Religion; 5. "Gay Fine Colours": Cognitive science and the study of religion; 6. The Base of Design: Relativism and fieldwork in contemporary anthropology; 7. Explaining Innovation: From the history of art to comparative ethics and religion; 8. From Comparisons to Cases: Pragmatism and the politics of virtue; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
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- 9780191613401
- Label
- Believing and Acting : the Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics
- Title
- Believing and Acting
- Title remainder
- the Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and why they act the way they do? In the 1980s and '90s postmodernist worries about led to debates that turned on power, truth, and relativism. Since the turn of the century scholars impressed by 'cognitive science' have introduced concepts drawn from evolutionary biology, neurosciences, and linguistics in the attempt to provide 'naturalist' accounts of religion. Deploying concepts andarguments that have their roots in the pragmatism of C.S. Peirce, Believing and Acting argues that both approaches are misgu
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
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- Davis, G. Scott
- Dewey number
- 261.4
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BJ47 .D38 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Religion and ethics
- Pragmatism
- Pragmatism
- Religion and ethics
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- Believing and Acting : the Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics
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- Cover; Contents; 1. Believing and Acting: The allure of method in the study of religion; 2. Peirce and the Legacy of Pragmatism; 3. Ethics, Religion, and the Limits of Empiricism; 4. Richard Rorty and the Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Religion; 5. "Gay Fine Colours": Cognitive science and the study of religion; 6. The Base of Design: Relativism and fieldwork in contemporary anthropology; 7. Explaining Innovation: From the history of art to comparative ethics and religion; 8. From Comparisons to Cases: Pragmatism and the politics of virtue; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
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- Control code
- 797917058
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780191613401
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- (OCoLC)797917058
- Label
- Believing and Acting : the Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Cover; Contents; 1. Believing and Acting: The allure of method in the study of religion; 2. Peirce and the Legacy of Pragmatism; 3. Ethics, Religion, and the Limits of Empiricism; 4. Richard Rorty and the Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Religion; 5. "Gay Fine Colours": Cognitive science and the study of religion; 6. The Base of Design: Relativism and fieldwork in contemporary anthropology; 7. Explaining Innovation: From the history of art to comparative ethics and religion; 8. From Comparisons to Cases: Pragmatism and the politics of virtue; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
- Lm; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z
- Control code
- 797917058
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780191613401
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)797917058
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