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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... that ' Descartes ' fundamental contribution lay in formalizing the human disposition to doubt ' by making ' doubt a means of access to truth ' . The Cartesian method for obtaining knowledge. 10 A GUIDE TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION.
... that ' Descartes ' fundamental contribution lay in formalizing the human disposition to doubt ' by making ' doubt a means of access to truth ' . The Cartesian method for obtaining knowledge. 10 A GUIDE TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION.
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... human reason as the basis on which to found knowledge . By beginning with the self , he overturned the pre - Enlightenment order whereby God provides the basis for our knowledge first of himself , then of the world and finally of ...
... human reason as the basis on which to found knowledge . By beginning with the self , he overturned the pre - Enlightenment order whereby God provides the basis for our knowledge first of himself , then of the world and finally of ...
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... human knowledge about the world is ultimately derived from empirical evidence accessible through the sense organs ' . The chief exponents of this philosophical doctrine were John Locke ( 1632-1704 ) , the Irish bishop George Berkeley ...
... human knowledge about the world is ultimately derived from empirical evidence accessible through the sense organs ' . The chief exponents of this philosophical doctrine were John Locke ( 1632-1704 ) , the Irish bishop George Berkeley ...
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... Human Understanding ( 1902 ) [ 1737 ] , David Hume demonstrated , by reducing sense perceptions in space and time to discrete units or impressions on the mind , that no necessary connection exists between one impression and another ...
... Human Understanding ( 1902 ) [ 1737 ] , David Hume demonstrated , by reducing sense perceptions in space and time to discrete units or impressions on the mind , that no necessary connection exists between one impression and another ...
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... human experience . This resulted in the remarkable and previously unthinkable ( as applied to knowledge of objects in the world ) ' synthetic a priori , defined by Popkin and Stroll as a statement in which the subject contains within it ...
... human experience . This resulted in the remarkable and previously unthinkable ( as applied to knowledge of objects in the world ) ' synthetic a priori , defined by Popkin and Stroll as a statement in which the subject contains within it ...
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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