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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... example , to studying sociology as it is applied to religion or psychology as it is applied to religion . Phenomenologists study religion in and of itself and not as an epiphenomenon of other more primary subjects . In academic ...
... example , to studying sociology as it is applied to religion or psychology as it is applied to religion . Phenomenologists study religion in and of itself and not as an epiphenomenon of other more primary subjects . In academic ...
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... example , Sharpe , 1986 : 224 ; Flood , 1999 : 9-10 ) . In this chapter , I explore the principle features in Husserl's philosophy without drawing direct connections to the thinking of key phenomenologists of religion . These ...
... example , Sharpe , 1986 : 224 ; Flood , 1999 : 9-10 ) . In this chapter , I explore the principle features in Husserl's philosophy without drawing direct connections to the thinking of key phenomenologists of religion . These ...
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... such ideas as the extension of an object in space and time could be said to exist apart from direct and simple sense perceptions , Berkeley asked , for example , ' What would a table " be ". 12 A GUIDE TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION.
... such ideas as the extension of an object in space and time could be said to exist apart from direct and simple sense perceptions , Berkeley asked , for example , ' What would a table " be ". 12 A GUIDE TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION.
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... example , if I drop a book on a table , a sound follows and a bit of dust scatters in the air . The sound and the scattering are associated by the mind into causal connections simply because they follow closely in time and are spatially ...
... example , if I drop a book on a table , a sound follows and a bit of dust scatters in the air . The sound and the scattering are associated by the mind into causal connections simply because they follow closely in time and are spatially ...
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... example , if I say , ' It is raining or it is not raining ' , I do not need to look out of my window to assert that this is a true statement . I know without recourse to experience that it is either raining or it is not raining , since ...
... example , if I say , ' It is raining or it is not raining ' , I do not need to look out of my window to assert that this is a true statement . I know without recourse to experience that it is either raining or it is not raining , since ...
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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