Philosophy of Religion in a Fragmented Age: Practice and Participatory Realism
What should the philosophical study of religion look like in an epoch of increasing political polarization, cultural ferment, and religious fragmentation? Drawing on the work of Amy Hollywood and others, I argue that philosophers seeking to understand what seem to be incommensurable moral and religi...
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| description | What should the philosophical study of religion look like in an epoch of increasing political polarization, cultural ferment, and religious fragmentation? Drawing on the work of Amy Hollywood and others, I argue that philosophers seeking to understand what seem to be incommensurable moral and religious communities ought to attend more fully to the role of spiritual practice and moral formation as irreducible components of certain beliefs and ethical intuitions. However, while such an account might invite a reductive reading in which the object of religious belief is taken to be simply the practice, ritual, etc., I engage the thought of Michael Polanyi to argue that such irreducibly participatory truth claims can be understood to aim at a reality that exceeds the structures of formation and ways of life to which they are indexed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb7756f66d7344458b61e772c7ae13272023-11-17T13:37:28ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-03-0114342410.3390/rel14030424Philosophy of Religion in a Fragmented Age: Practice and Participatory RealismJacob Holsinger Sherman0Philosophy and Religion Department, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA 94103, USAWhat should the philosophical study of religion look like in an epoch of increasing political polarization, cultural ferment, and religious fragmentation? Drawing on the work of Amy Hollywood and others, I argue that philosophers seeking to understand what seem to be incommensurable moral and religious communities ought to attend more fully to the role of spiritual practice and moral formation as irreducible components of certain beliefs and ethical intuitions. However, while such an account might invite a reductive reading in which the object of religious belief is taken to be simply the practice, ritual, etc., I engage the thought of Michael Polanyi to argue that such irreducibly participatory truth claims can be understood to aim at a reality that exceeds the structures of formation and ways of life to which they are indexed.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/424ritualparticipationspiritual practiceparticipatory realismPolanyiparticipatory epistemology |
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