TY - JOUR AU - Bertini, Daniele PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Vagueness of Religious Beliefs JF - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion JA - EJPR VL - 12 IS - 2 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.2937 UR - https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/index.php/ejpr/article/view/2937 SP - 181-210 AB - <p><span>My paper characterizes religious beliefs in terms of vagueness. I introduce my topic by providing a general overview of my main claims. In the subsequent section, I develop basic distinctions and terminology for handling the notion of religious tradition and capturing (religious) vagueness. In the following sections, I make the case for my claim that religious beliefs are vague by developing a general argument from the interconnection between the referential opacity of religious belief content and the long-term communitarian history of the precisification of what such content means. I start from describing an empirical example in the third section, and then I move to settle the matter in a conceptually argumentative frame in the fourth one. My conclusions in the final section address a few of consequences relevant to debates about religious epistemology and religious diversity.<br /><br /></span></p> ER -