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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... question of the extent to which Edmund Husserl's philosophical method influenced phenomenologists of religion , and ... questions posed emerge out of the philosophical , theological and social scientific contexts that produced the ...
... question of the extent to which Edmund Husserl's philosophical method influenced phenomenologists of religion , and ... questions posed emerge out of the philosophical , theological and social scientific contexts that produced the ...
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... questions ( What can we know about ultimate realities ? ) ; ethics ( How can we determine the right and the good ? ) ; and aesthetics ( How can we determine what is beautiful ? ) . Theories of knowledge can be regarded as the ...
... questions ( What can we know about ultimate realities ? ) ; ethics ( How can we determine the right and the good ? ) ; and aesthetics ( How can we determine what is beautiful ? ) . Theories of knowledge can be regarded as the ...
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... questions of religion , theology or ethics . The realm of ' pure reason ' , which is constituted and established by the categories of the mind , can yield no knowledge whatsoever of that which extends beyond experience . Questions of ...
... questions of religion , theology or ethics . The realm of ' pure reason ' , which is constituted and established by the categories of the mind , can yield no knowledge whatsoever of that which extends beyond experience . Questions of ...
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... question : What gives unity to thought and thus makes science possible ? Husserl's concept of a rigorous science can be traced directly to the influence of Descartes , since Husserl wished to secure a firm or unshakeable foundation for ...
... question : What gives unity to thought and thus makes science possible ? Husserl's concept of a rigorous science can be traced directly to the influence of Descartes , since Husserl wished to secure a firm or unshakeable foundation for ...
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... questions about experience but must seek the answers in a theory of cognition from which every positing of existence has been eliminated ' . This eliminating the question of existence is done by the phenomenological bracketing or epoche ...
... questions about experience but must seek the answers in a theory of cognition from which every positing of existence has been eliminated ' . This eliminating the question of existence is done by the phenomenological bracketing or epoche ...
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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