Religion as experience: Dialogue with John Dewey

This article discusses John Dewey's (1859-1952): Theory of valuation (1939), Art as experience (1934), A common faith (1934), The public and its problems (1927) for the socio-anthropological analysis of the religious. This pragmatist approach, attentive to intersubjectivity and experience, allo...

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Published in:Social compass
Main Author: Lamine, Anne-Sophie 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Social compass
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Dewey, John 1859-1952, Theory of valuation / Dewey, John 1859-1952, Art as experience / Dewey, John 1859-1952, A common faith / Dewey, John 1859-1952, The public and its problems / Religion / Ideal (motif) / Experience
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
Further subjects:B Belief
B Expérience
B idéal
B Experience
B Pragmatism
B Dewey
B Ideal (motif)
B commun
B Croyance
B Pragmatisme
B Common
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Summary:This article discusses John Dewey's (1859-1952): Theory of valuation (1939), Art as experience (1934), A common faith (1934), The public and its problems (1927) for the socio-anthropological analysis of the religious. This pragmatist approach, attentive to intersubjectivity and experience, allows to work on aspirations and ideals, through giving place to emotions besides rationality in the valuation process. Further, the idea of public and pre-political, permits to pay attention to processes which are different from differentiation and where people contribute to the common good from their specific (minority) situation. In a pragmatist approach, believing comes in three modalities as ‘caring about,' in the sense of giving value to forms of experiences and self-construction, respectively, to forms of self-transcendence, and to ways of connecting with the world (others and nature).
ISSN:1461-7404
Contains:Enthalten in: Social compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0037768618800426