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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... existence the realities , which he had previously naively taken for granted : the existence of God and the world of nature , other beings , his own body and its relations to other bodies . Descartes ' method for obtaining certainty ...
... existence the realities , which he had previously naively taken for granted : the existence of God and the world of nature , other beings , his own body and its relations to other bodies . Descartes ' method for obtaining certainty ...
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... existence , including its extension in space , in any meaningful way , could not be established apart from sense perceptions , which are entirely in the mind . In this way , Berkeley claimed to have demonstrated that reality is ...
... existence , including its extension in space , in any meaningful way , could not be established apart from sense perceptions , which are entirely in the mind . In this way , Berkeley claimed to have demonstrated that reality is ...
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... existence of God , the nature of ultimate reality , even human freedom , cannot be resolved using the categories of the mind . The transcendence spoken of in pure reason or philosophical knowledge defines and determines the conditions ...
... existence of God , the nature of ultimate reality , even human freedom , cannot be resolved using the categories of the mind . The transcendence spoken of in pure reason or philosophical knowledge defines and determines the conditions ...
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... existence of the real world is not about whether the real world , the material world in particular , exists in general ... but about the mode of the world's existence and what its existential relation is to acts of consciousness in ...
... existence of the real world is not about whether the real world , the material world in particular , exists in general ... but about the mode of the world's existence and what its existential relation is to acts of consciousness in ...
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... existence of an external world is required . Husserl explains : ' We set it as it were " out of action " , we " disconnect it " , " bracket it " ( Ideas , 1931 : 108 ) . The natural standpoint in this method remains experience as it is ...
... existence of an external world is required . Husserl explains : ' We set it as it were " out of action " , we " disconnect it " , " bracket it " ( Ideas , 1931 : 108 ) . The natural standpoint in this method remains experience as it is ...
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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