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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... courses , that religious studies , as a field midway between theology and the social and cultural sciences , suffers from a severe crisis of identity . In my view , this has resulted , at least in part , from the central role the ...
... courses , that religious studies , as a field midway between theology and the social and cultural sciences , suffers from a severe crisis of identity . In my view , this has resulted , at least in part , from the central role the ...
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... Religions For many years , the religious studies programme at Edinburgh University has included in its course structure a compulsory component in which students analyse the thought of influential thinkers who have moulded the academic ...
... Religions For many years , the religious studies programme at Edinburgh University has included in its course structure a compulsory component in which students analyse the thought of influential thinkers who have moulded the academic ...
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... religious phenomena under the broad umbrella of cultural studies . The Edinburgh course , therefore , has demonstrated clearly that the ideas of principal scholars of religion cannot be divorced from their historical contexts nor from ...
... religious phenomena under the broad umbrella of cultural studies . The Edinburgh course , therefore , has demonstrated clearly that the ideas of principal scholars of religion cannot be divorced from their historical contexts nor from ...
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... studies of religion , mostly in anthropology , with the exception of Freud ... religious studies and they must be able to be shown to have played ... religious studies as a distinct discipline studying ' religion ' itself , as opposed ...
... studies of religion , mostly in anthropology , with the exception of Freud ... religious studies and they must be able to be shown to have played ... religious studies as a distinct discipline studying ' religion ' itself , as opposed ...
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... religion . Neither are they linguists , although the study of religions in its various forms almost always requires language ... religious studies approach within a much broader multi- disciplinary academic framework . Identifying key ...
... religion . Neither are they linguists , although the study of religions in its various forms almost always requires language ... religious studies approach within a much broader multi- disciplinary academic framework . Identifying key ...
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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