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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... employed by Pals . I have chosen my key figures on the basis of their identification with the phenomenology of religion . This does not resolve the problem of deciding how some are included and others excluded , a point to which I will ...
... employed by Pals . I have chosen my key figures on the basis of their identification with the phenomenology of religion . This does not resolve the problem of deciding how some are included and others excluded , a point to which I will ...
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... employed phenomenological methods in the study of religions . James characterizes the family traits shared by phenomenologists as ' a - historical , a - theological , and anti - reductive ' tendencies , which are exposed clearly in the ...
... employed phenomenological methods in the study of religions . James characterizes the family traits shared by phenomenologists as ' a - historical , a - theological , and anti - reductive ' tendencies , which are exposed clearly in the ...
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... employing entail omissions , and , in some senses , it can be argued that I am following James by presenting a modified case study approach . Numerous scholars who have been extremely influential in religious studies are excluded , such ...
... employing entail omissions , and , in some senses , it can be argued that I am following James by presenting a modified case study approach . Numerous scholars who have been extremely influential in religious studies are excluded , such ...
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... employed by the great German idealist of the nineteenth century , G. W. F. Hegel , to refer to ' subjective spirit ' ( Kenny , 1994 : 228 ) . Following Husserl , a very loosely defined ' school of thinkers ' expanded his ideas , such as ...
... employed by the great German idealist of the nineteenth century , G. W. F. Hegel , to refer to ' subjective spirit ' ( Kenny , 1994 : 228 ) . Following Husserl , a very loosely defined ' school of thinkers ' expanded his ideas , such as ...
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... employ the term phenomenology as ' descriptive psych- ology ' . David Bell ( 1990 : 4 ) notes that although ' during the second half of the .. nineteenth century the discipline of psychology had not yet. 17 UNDERSTANDING PHENOMENA.
... employ the term phenomenology as ' descriptive psych- ology ' . David Bell ( 1990 : 4 ) notes that although ' during the second half of the .. nineteenth century the discipline of psychology had not yet. 17 UNDERSTANDING PHENOMENA.
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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