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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... sense , Walter Capps has attempted just this in his extremely ambitious overview of the history and development of religious studies . Of necessity , he could devote just a few pages , and in many cases just a few paragraphs , to an ...
... sense , Walter Capps has attempted just this in his extremely ambitious overview of the history and development of religious studies . Of necessity , he could devote just a few pages , and in many cases just a few paragraphs , to an ...
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... sense , the problem Pals faced in selecting his seven theories of religion remains my problem , but in a more limited sense . I must justify my choice of scholars and my methods for selecting them . That this is a formidable task can be ...
... sense , the problem Pals faced in selecting his seven theories of religion remains my problem , but in a more limited sense . I must justify my choice of scholars and my methods for selecting them . That this is a formidable task can be ...
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... sense we assume to be real , such as the existence of the external world , our experience of other persons and the reality of our own bodies . Finally , after having doubted virtually everything conceivable , he reached the one ...
... sense we assume to be real , such as the existence of the external world , our experience of other persons and the reality of our own bodies . Finally , after having doubted virtually everything conceivable , he reached the one ...
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... sense , knowledge that can under no circumstances possibly be false . ( Popkin and Stroll , 1986 : 232 ) This rational tradition , emphasising the use of mathematical , analytical , logical and deductive reasoning , has been contrasted ...
... sense , knowledge that can under no circumstances possibly be false . ( Popkin and Stroll , 1986 : 232 ) This rational tradition , emphasising the use of mathematical , analytical , logical and deductive reasoning , has been contrasted ...
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... sense perceptions , which are entirely in the mind . In this way , Berkeley claimed to have demonstrated that reality is immaterial , comprising of ideas in the mind and thus we can have no knowledge apart from such ideas . This logic ...
... sense perceptions , which are entirely in the mind . In this way , Berkeley claimed to have demonstrated that reality is immaterial , comprising of ideas in the mind and thus we can have no knowledge apart from such ideas . This logic ...
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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