A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent DebatesBloomsbury Publishing, 15. juuni 2006 - 276 pages The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences. This book examines the figures whom the author regards as having been most influential in creating a phenomenology of religion. Background factors drawn from philosophy, theology and the social sciences are traced before examining the thinking of scholars within the Dutch, British and North American 'schools' of religious phenomenology. |
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... believing he had a body and that he had experienced an external world , he could not escape the fact that he was the one doing the doubting . He was , therefore , a thinking being , if nothing else . Hence , Descartes ( 1931 , vol . 1 ...
... believing he had a body and that he had experienced an external world , he could not escape the fact that he was the one doing the doubting . He was , therefore , a thinking being , if nothing else . Hence , Descartes ( 1931 , vol . 1 ...
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... beliefs ) through which the universal experience is apprehended and expressed . In this chapter , the thought of three Ritschlians , Albrecht Ritschl himself , Wilhelm Herrmann and A. G. Hogg , will be examined as formative influences ...
... beliefs ) through which the universal experience is apprehended and expressed . In this chapter , the thought of three Ritschlians , Albrecht Ritschl himself , Wilhelm Herrmann and A. G. Hogg , will be examined as formative influences ...
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... belief in the existence of God as the one necessary being in the universe on which everything else depends against ... beliefs can be demonstrated by pure reason ; they provide nonetheless the necessary prerequisites for morality ...
... belief in the existence of God as the one necessary being in the universe on which everything else depends against ... beliefs can be demonstrated by pure reason ; they provide nonetheless the necessary prerequisites for morality ...
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... beliefs and rituals their core intuition of the universe . Thus , when what Schleiermacher calls ' the ancients ' faced human limitations in space and time , they intuited the universe as unlimited and regarded it as the ' work and ...
... beliefs and rituals their core intuition of the universe . Thus , when what Schleiermacher calls ' the ancients ' faced human limitations in space and time , they intuited the universe as unlimited and regarded it as the ' work and ...
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... belief in what we would call traditional , supernatural Lutheran Christianity permeated his life ' . Yet , as Darrell Jodock ( 1995 : 3-4 ) observes , RitschI ' challenged the principal ecclesiastical parties of his own day ' and his ...
... belief in what we would call traditional , supernatural Lutheran Christianity permeated his life ' . Yet , as Darrell Jodock ( 1995 : 3-4 ) observes , RitschI ' challenged the principal ecclesiastical parties of his own day ' and his ...
Contents
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The Contributions of Troeltsch Weber and Jung to Phenomenological Thinking | 67 |
Chapter 4 The Decisive Role of Dutch Phenomenology in the New Science of Religion | 103 |
The British School of Phenomenology | 141 |
North American Phenomenology at Chicago and in the Thought of W C Smith | 171 |
Subsequent Debates in the Academic Study of Religions | 209 |
Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 263 |
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