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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... explains why I have restricted my investigation to one type of religious specialist , the phenomenologist of religion . A restricted approach , similar to the one I am taking , has been adopted by Daniel Pals in his Seven Theories of ...
... explains why I have restricted my investigation to one type of religious specialist , the phenomenologist of religion . A restricted approach , similar to the one I am taking , has been adopted by Daniel Pals in his Seven Theories of ...
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... explains his omission of important thinkers like Max Muller , Max Weber , Lucien Levy - Bruhl and C. G. Jung on various grounds : Müller's theory that religion originated in nature worship was largely discredited in his lifetime ; the ...
... explains his omission of important thinkers like Max Muller , Max Weber , Lucien Levy - Bruhl and C. G. Jung on various grounds : Müller's theory that religion originated in nature worship was largely discredited in his lifetime ; the ...
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... explain : Theories of knowledge like those of Plato and Descartes are ' rationalistic ' because they assert that by employing certain procedures of reason alone we can discover knowledge in the strongest sense , knowledge that can under ...
... explain : Theories of knowledge like those of Plato and Descartes are ' rationalistic ' because they assert that by employing certain procedures of reason alone we can discover knowledge in the strongest sense , knowledge that can under ...
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... explains that his book , On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism ( 1975 ) , was written because he had often asked himself ' why Husserl , really , headed in the direction of transcendental idealism from the time of ...
... explains that his book , On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism ( 1975 ) , was written because he had often asked himself ' why Husserl , really , headed in the direction of transcendental idealism from the time of ...
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... explains : By invoking the help of ' eidetic ' cognition it was relatively easy to reach the idea of pure transcendental phenomenology which through its appeal to the final subjectivity of pure consciousness was to discover not only the ...
... explains : By invoking the help of ' eidetic ' cognition it was relatively easy to reach the idea of pure transcendental phenomenology which through its appeal to the final subjectivity of pure consciousness was to discover not only the ...
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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