American Religious Empiricism

American Religious Empiricism
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 0887062806
ISBN-13 : 9780887062803
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Synopsis American Religious Empiricism by : William Dean

In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. “br /> Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.

Radical Interpretation in Religion

Radical Interpretation in Religion
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 052101705X
ISBN-13 : 9780521017053
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Interpretation in Religion by : Nancy Frankenberry

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Empiricist Devotions

Empiricist Devotions
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780813938394
ISBN-13 : 0813938392
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Empiricist Devotions by : Courtney Weiss Smith

Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated. This brand of empiricism was committed to particularized scrutiny and epistemological modesty. It was Protestant in its enabling premises and meditative practices. It earnestly affirmed that figurative language provided crucial tools for interpreting the divinely written world. Smith recovers this empiricism in Robert Boyle’s analogies, Isaac Newton’s metaphors, John Locke’s narratives, Joseph Addison’s personifications, Daniel Defoe’s diction, John Gay’s periphrases, and Alexander Pope’s descriptive particulars. She thereby demonstrates that "literary" language played a key role in shaping and giving voice to the concerns of eighteenth-century science and religion alike. Empiricist Devotions combines intellectual history with close readings of a wide variety of texts, from sermons, devotional journals, and economic tracts to georgic poems, it-narratives, and microscopy treatises. This prizewinning book has important implications for our understanding of cultural and literary history, as scholars of the period’s science have not fully appreciated figurative language’s central role in empiricist thought, while scholars of its religion and literature have neglected the serious empiricist commitments motivating richly figurative devotional and poetic texts. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Religion and Radical Empiricism

Religion and Radical Empiricism
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 0887064086
ISBN-13 : 9780887064081
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion and Radical Empiricism by : Nancy Frankenberry

Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of "revisionary theism," to caricatures of philosophy as "conversation," and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

The American Spiritual Culture

The American Spiritual Culture
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0826418961
ISBN-13 : 9780826418968
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Spiritual Culture by : William Dean

In this book, now in paperback, William Dean describes the spiritual culture that is grounded in the emerging American story.

History Making History

History Making History
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 0887068928
ISBN-13 : 9780887068928
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Synopsis History Making History by : William D. Dean

This book recognizes that the postmodern "new historicism" leads to a value-neutral relativism and leaves theology with an impossible choice. Dean argues that the postmodern challenge is incoherent and ineffective unless it is reinterpreted in terms of its classical American roots. Before offering a third option, Dean defends the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty, Richard Bernstein, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, Cornel West, and Jeffrey Stout; the deconstructivism of Jacques Derrida and Mark Taylor; and the recent theology of Gordon Kaufman. The third option, opening up a new possibility for American theology, is the radical empiricism of William James and John Dewey and the precedent of the "Chicago School."

God, Values, and Empiricism

God, Values, and Empiricism
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Publisher : Mercer University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 0865543607
ISBN-13 : 9780865543607
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis God, Values, and Empiricism by : Creighton Peden

Fugitive Science

Fugitive Science
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781479805723
ISBN-13 : 1479805726
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Fugitive Science by : Britt Rusert

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims. Far from rejecting science, these figures were careful readers of antebellum science who linked diverse fields—from astronomy to physiology—to both on-the-ground activism and more speculative forms of knowledge creation. Routinely excluded from institutions of scientific learning and training, they transformed cultural spaces like the page, the stage, the parlor, and even the pulpit into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation. From the recovery of neglected figures like Robert Benjamin Lewis, Hosea Easton, and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to new accounts of Martin Delany, Henry Box Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Science makes natural science central to how we understand the origins and development of African American literature and culture. This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.

British Empiricism and American Pragmatism

British Empiricism and American Pragmatism
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0823295206
ISBN-13 : 9780823295203
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis British Empiricism and American Pragmatism by : Robert J. Roth

This volume contributes to the remarkable resurgence in interest for American pragmatism and its proponents, William James, C.S. Peirce, and John Dewey, by focusing on the influence of British empiricism, especially the philosophies of Locker and Hume, and the sharp differences between the two traditions. It is Roth's contention that American pragmatism, sometimes called America's first "indigenous" philosophy, something significant to say philosophically, not only America, but for the world. Heretofore, the lines of development and divergence between British empiricism and American pragmatism have not been sufficiently developed.

Religion within the Limits of History Alone

Religion within the Limits of History Alone
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 9781438479354
ISBN-13 : 1438479352
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion within the Limits of History Alone by : Demian Wheeler

Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to particular contexts. In this book, Demian Wheeler confronts the historicist challenge by delineating and defending a particular trajectory of historicist thought known as pragmatic historicism. Rooted in the German Enlightenment and fully developed within the early Chicago school of theology, pragmatic historicism is a predominantly American tradition that was philosophically nurtured by classical pragmatism and its intellectual siblings, naturalism and radical empiricism. Religion within the Limits of History Alone not only undertakes a detailed genealogy of this pragmatic historicist lineage but also sets forth a constructive program for contemporary theology by charting a path for its future development. Wheeler shows that pragmatic historicism is an underdeveloped resource for contemporary theology since it offers a model for normative religious thought that is theologically compelling yet wholly nonsupernaturalistic, deeply pluralistic, unflinchingly liberal, and radically historicist.