Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion

Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Av James L. Cox

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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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Utgivningsdatum2006-06-15
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780826452900

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Introduction; Part One: Formative Influences; Chapter 1: Edmund Husserl and Philosophical Phenomenology; Chapter 2: Theological Influences: The School of Albrecht Ritschl; Chapter 3: Reductionism and the Social Sciences; Part Two: Key Phenomenological Schools; Chapter 4: Foundational Figures in the Dutch School of Phenomenology; Chapter 5: Phenomenology in the United Kingdom; Chapter 6: North American Phenomenology: Wach, Eliade and W C Smith; Part Three: Subsequent Debates; Chapter 7: The Reductionist-Religionist Debate; Chapter 8: Alternatives to Phenomenology. Chapter 9: A New Phenomenology of Religion; Bibliography; Index.

'In less capable hands, the biographies of leading scholars may show us how Religious Studies has evolved, but in this book Cox offers something far more exciting and important. He shows us what it has meant, what it means and what it might yet mean to study religion. In this accessible and engaging book he challenges students of religion to be clear about what we study and how we might study it better. This book should be part of every course in the Study of Religions.' Graham Harvey, Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University