Triadic Concepts in Religious Thought: a Semiotic Approach to Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist Experience

The semiotics of C. S. Peirce opens new vistas in the process of scientific inquiry. He advocates an accurate metaphysical system, based on categories of Quality, Relation and Representation, thus avoiding various dualisms and monisms. In the field of Religious Studies, the Peircean method proves promising in the comparative approach to various triadic concepts of religious thought. The Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Taoist experience of the Absolute has many things in common, however, even the most simple exchange of ideas is obscured by the philosophical mis-translation of terms. This book provides a new approach towards inter-religious dialogue based on triadic semiotics.