In the wake of both the semiotic and the psychoanalytic revolutions, how is it possible to describe the object of religious worship in realist terms? Semioticians argue that each object is known only insofar as it gives birth to a series of signs and interpretants (new signs). From the psychoanalytic side, religious beliefs are seen to belong to transference energies and projections that contaminate the religious object with all-too-human complexes. In Nature's Religion, distinguished theologian and philosopher Robert S. Corrington weaves together the concept of infinite semiosis with that of the transference to show that the self does have access to something in nature that is intrinsically religious. Corrington argues that signs and our various transference fields can and do connect us with fully natural religious powers that are not of our own making, thereby opening up a path past the Western monotheisms to a capacious religion of nature. With a foreword by Robert C. Neville, Nature's Religion is essential reading for philosophers of religion, scholars of the psychology of religion, and theologians.

About the Author
Robert S. Corrington is associate professor of philosophical theology at Drew University.

Reviews
Exploring this unconscious and its manifold eruptions, Corrington is to be applauded for his effort to provide a map of this unruly domain. . . . Corrington's book . . . is of obvious importance. -- Joseph Pettit * The Journal Of Religion *
A profoundly insightful, imaginatively brilliant, and rhetorically revolutionary book. . . . This book presents a profound spiritual vision for our time. * From The Foreword *



Book Information
ISBN 9780847687503
Author Robert S. Corrington
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 331g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 149mm * 16mm