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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... important , results from the central , and even overriding , role phenomenology has played in shaping religious studies as an academic field . My aim in this book , therefore , is not to provide a comprehensive list of scholars who have ...
... important , results from the central , and even overriding , role phenomenology has played in shaping religious studies as an academic field . My aim in this book , therefore , is not to provide a comprehensive list of scholars who have ...
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... important theories of religion that have been put forward since the idea of a scientific approach to religion first caught the imagination of serious scholars in the century before our own ' ( 1996 : 10 ) . He adds that the key thinkers ...
... important theories of religion that have been put forward since the idea of a scientific approach to religion first caught the imagination of serious scholars in the century before our own ' ( 1996 : 10 ) . He adds that the key thinkers ...
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... important contributor to the phenomenology of religion , even if I were to attempt to review the principal thinkers mentioned in Sharpe's chapter on the phenomenology of religion . There are simply too many to achieve such an aim . A ...
... important contributor to the phenomenology of religion , even if I were to attempt to review the principal thinkers mentioned in Sharpe's chapter on the phenomenology of religion . There are simply too many to achieve such an aim . A ...
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... important for my study of key phenomen- ologists of religion because I have adopted a method for selecting scholars mid- way between Sharpe's comprehensive history of comparative religions and James ' case study approach . My tactic is ...
... important for my study of key phenomen- ologists of religion because I have adopted a method for selecting scholars mid- way between Sharpe's comprehensive history of comparative religions and James ' case study approach . My tactic is ...
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... important for the comparative study of religions and , as I have noted above , George James has given detailed accounts of the relationships between history , theology and the social sciences within the thinking of Chantepie ...
... important for the comparative study of religions and , as I have noted above , George James has given detailed accounts of the relationships between history , theology and the social sciences within the thinking of Chantepie ...
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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