Moving on by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Moving on by Sarah Ban Breathnach

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach, a writer of remarkable wisdom, warmth, and compassion, has become a trusted voice to women around the world. Sarah is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy and the creator of The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude. Her work celebrates quiet joys, simple pleasures, and well-spent moments. Sarah reminds us to search with appreciation and awe for the small and the sweet in our daily lives. Following her sage insights, millions of women, including Oprah Winfrey, discovered unexpected contentment and solace in their own lives. Sarah lives in Southern California near her daughter, Kate, and their beloved animals.

Wendy Edelson's beautiful watercolors have graced over thirty children's books as well as book covers, posters, pet portraits, print ads, calendars, fabric collections, puzzles, games, and collectibles. When not painting in her studio, she works in her garden, dreams of her next project, writes, works out, plays with her fluffy corgi, and listens to her husband, a professional jazz drummer, play music.

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ISBN 13	9780696225574
ISBN 10	0696225573
Title	Moving on
Author	Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Meredith Corporation
Year published	2006-03-01
Number of pages	284
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