Paths Without Belief: Embracing the Divine | Carl-Johan Palmqvist | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #33

🔍 Overview: In semi-secular societies, people are engaging with religious traditions through practice rather than belief. In this conversation, Carl-Johan Palmqvist and Samuel explore religious fictionalism and non-doxasticism—examining how faith can function without firm conviction.

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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: Can you engage with religion as if it’s real—without actually believing it?
[Highlight 2]: Does role-playing in religious traditions create authenticity or mimicry?
[Highlight 3]: How does non-doxasticism challenge traditional ideas of faith and belief?

🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:02 - Carl-Johan Palmqvist and Philosophy
3:34 - Religious Fictionalism
5:21 - Motivation of Religious Fictionalism
8:07 - Role-Playing and Religious Fictionalism
11:24 - Role-Playing and Realist Religious Traditions
15:01 - LARPing and Religious Fictionalism
19:44 - Cognitive Dissonance and Maintaining Authenticity
26:08 - Bleed Over and Realist Religious Accomplishments
33:20 - Subclasses within Religious Fictionalism
35:19 - Extended Fictionalism
42:01 - Non-Doxasticism
43:31 - Religious Fictionalism - Non-Doxasticism
46:51 - Criteria for Non-Doxastic Commitment
50:54 - Coexistent Naturalistic and Supernatural Theories
57:02 - Non-Doxasticism's Challenge to Classical Understandings of Epistemology
1:06:23 - Non-Doxastic Religious Adherence
1:08:50 - The Scope of Non-Doxastic Paganism
1:15:44 - Neopagan Stories and Non-Doxasticism
1:21:14 - Non-Doxasticism and Evaluating Live Possibilities
1:30:34 - Beliefless Approaches to Religions
1:32:37 - Challenges of Public Perception
1:38:18 - Closing Remarks

📚 Episode Resources (affiliate links where possible - thanks!)
Lund University: https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/carl-johan-palmqvist
Paper 1 (open access): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/on-the-rationality-of-semisecular-simultaneity-a-nondoxastic-interpretation-of-the-seemingly-inconsistent-worldviews-of-some-swedish-nones/8B0968A0AEE82C223EC63F22A72BDAD4
Paper 2 (open access): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/pretending-to-be-a-believer-on-understanding-religious-fictionalism-as-a-roleplaying-game/2FD9174BC6700FB787543D18BD0FE9C0
Paper 3 (open access): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/old-gods-as-a-live-possibility-on-the-rational-feasibility-of-nondoxastic-paganism/BEB0C76F4080312C433CE8C847224928

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