This book examines the ways in which religious communities
experimentally engage the world and function as fallible
inquisitive agents, despite frequent protests to the contrary.
Using the philosophy of inquiry and semiotics of Charles Sanders
Peirce, it develops unique naturalist conceptions of religious
meaning and ultimate orientation while also arguing for a
reappraisal of the ways in which the world's venerable religious
traditions enable novel forms of communal inquiry into what Peirce
termed "vital matters." Pragmatic inquiry, it argues, is a
ubiquitous and continuous phenomenon. Thus, religious
participation, though cautiously conservative in many ways, is best
understood as a variety of inhabited experimentation. Religious
communities embody historically mediated hypotheses about how best
to engage the world and curate networks of semiotic resources for
rendering those engagements meaningful. Religions best fulfill
their inquisitive function when they both deploy and reform their
sign systems as they learn better to engage reality.
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