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Is pragmatism, as focused on a future considered producible by our finite actions, ill equipped to analyze religion (or "Erlösungswissen", as Max Scheler said); is it unable, as Stanley Cavell writes, to sufficiently explore "skepticism" and negativity? This paper argues that William James succeeds in pragmatically re-thematizing "Erlösungswissen", and that Josiah Royce—who develops a post-pragmatic, pragmaticist concept of; religion—carefully re-investigates "negativity", in a Peirce-inspired mode, by focusing on the "mission of sorrow".

This book offers interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives on the challenges of negotiating the contours of religious tolerance in Europe.In today's Europe, religions and religious individuals are increasingly framed as both an internal and external security threat. This is evident in controls over the activities of foreign preachers but also, more broadly, in EU states' management of migration flows, marked by questions regarding the religious background of migrating non-European Others. This book addresses such shifts directly by examining how understandings of religious freedom touch down in actual contexts, places, and practices across Europe, offering multidisciplinary insights from leading thinkers from political theory, political philosophy, anthropology, and geography. The volume thus aims to ground ideal liberal democratic theory and, at the same time, to bring normative reflection to grounded, ethnographic analyses of religious practices. Such 'grounded' understandings matter, for they speak to how religions and religious difference are encountered in specific places. They especially matter in a European context where religion and religious difference are increasingly not just securitised but made the object of violent attacks.The book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, geography, religious studies, and the sociology and anthropology of religion

Dualisme : c'est la croyance religieuse non point à deux dieux, celui du Bien et celui du Mal, égaux et opposés, en lutte perpétuelle l'un contre l'autre (une lutte dont résulte l'histoire même du monde), mais bien à deux principes dont l'un est divin, ou du moins plus divin que l'autre : l'autre, un démon. Si bien que les dualistes, en matière de religion, sont habituellement des monothéistes. Mais leur Dieu n'est pas la cause de tout. Par la cause du Mal en tout cas : le Mal, ce principe complètement étranger au Bien, cette substance étrangère à Dieu, dans laquelle gnostiques et manichéens reconnaissent la matière, de sorte que leur dualisme paraît être, non pas l'opposition de deux dieux, mais celle de Dieu et de la matière, et le refus de croire que cette matière soit venue de Dieu.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Grounding Theory—Earth in Religion and Philosophy -- Ecotheology and World Religions -- Talking the Walk: A Practice-Based Environmental Ethic as Grounds for Hope -- Talking Dirty: Ground Is Not Foundation -- Ecofeminist Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics: A Comparative View -- Cooking the Truth: Faith, Science, the Market, and Global Warming -- Ecospirituality and the Blurred Boundaries of Humans, Animals, and Machines -- Getting Over ''Nature'': Modern Bifurcations, Postmodern Possibilities -- Toward an Ethics of Biodiversity: Science and Theology in Environmentalist Dialogue -- Indigenous Knowing and Responsible Life in the World -- The Preoriginal Gift—and Our Response to It -- Prometheus Redeemed? From Autoconstruction to Ecopoetics -- Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian Micropneumatology of Spirit- Dust -- Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction -- Sacred-Land Theology: Green Spirit, Deconstruction, and the Question of Idolatry in Contemporary Earthen Christianity -- Grounding the Spirit: An Ecofeminist Pneumatology -- Hearing the Outcry of Mute Things: Toward a Jewish Creation Theology -- Creatio ex Nihilo, Terra Nullius, and the Erasure of Presence -- Surrogate Suffering: Paradigms of Sin, Salvation, and Sacrifice Within the Vivisection Movement -- The Hope of the Earth: A Process Ecoeschatology for South Korea -- Restoring Earth, Restored to Earth: Toward an Ethic for Reinhabiting Place -- Caribou and Carbon Colonialism: Toward a Theology of Arctic Place -- Divining New Orleans: Invoking Wisdom for the Redemption of Place -- Constructing Nature at a Chapel in the Woods -- Felling Sacred Groves: Appropriation of a Christian Tradition for Antienvironmentalism -- Ethics and Ecology: A Primary Challenge of the Dialogue of Civilizations -- Religion and the Earth on the Ground: The Experience of GreenFaith in New Jersey -- Cries of Creation, Ground for Hope: Faith, Justice, and the Earth Interfaith Worship Service -- The Firm Ground for Hope: A Ritual for Planting Humans and Trees -- Musings from White Rock Lake: Poems -- Notes -- Contributors