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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... cultural sciences , suffers from a severe crisis of identity . In my view , this has resulted , at least in part , from the central role the phenomenology of religion has played historically in the development of the academic study of ...
... cultural sciences , suffers from a severe crisis of identity . In my view , this has resulted , at least in part , from the central role the phenomenology of religion has played historically in the development of the academic study of ...
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... cultural studies . The Edinburgh course , therefore , has demonstrated clearly that the ideas of principal scholars of religion cannot be divorced from their historical contexts nor from the issues they have identified as critical for ...
... cultural studies . The Edinburgh course , therefore , has demonstrated clearly that the ideas of principal scholars of religion cannot be divorced from their historical contexts nor from the issues they have identified as critical for ...
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... cultural studies , and Donald Wiebe , who has sharpened the debate in North America between theological and scientific studies of religion ( Sharpe , 1986 : 340-41 ) . Clearly , it is not possible to provide an in - depth study of every ...
... cultural studies , and Donald Wiebe , who has sharpened the debate in North America between theological and scientific studies of religion ( Sharpe , 1986 : 340-41 ) . Clearly , it is not possible to provide an in - depth study of every ...
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... cultural consequences for the modern Western world ' . It was a movement primarily which put the human being at the centre of knowledge , either through reason or science , and it adhered strongly to a sense that scientific rationality ...
... cultural consequences for the modern Western world ' . It was a movement primarily which put the human being at the centre of knowledge , either through reason or science , and it adhered strongly to a sense that scientific rationality ...
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... cultures , which represent objects with spiritual predicates through , for example , ' books , tools , works of any kind ' . Husserl acknowledges , moreover , that these have different expressions within different cultural communities ...
... cultures , which represent objects with spiritual predicates through , for example , ' books , tools , works of any kind ' . Husserl acknowledges , moreover , that these have different expressions within different cultural communities ...
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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