Nature's religion  Front Cover Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 -
Philosophy - 192 pages 0 Reviews 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 capac