A guide to the phenomenology of religion : key figures, formative influences and subsequent debates

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A guide to the phenomenology of religion : key figures, formative influences and subsequent debates

James L. Cox

T & T International, 2006

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-262) and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780826452894

Description

This book provides an introduction and overview to the Phenomenology of Religion through describing, analysing and evaluating the ideas of key thinkers in the phenomenology of religion. At the same, the author places the ideas of the key thinkers identified into historical and social contexts by examining the formative influences over their thinking and by indicating how their ideas have helped to create the debates at the core of religious studies today. The book's focus on the phenomenology of religion confirms the central and even overriding, role phenomenology has played in shaping religious studies as a discipline distinct from theology, sociology or anthropology. Having traced background factors drawn from philosophy, theology and the social sciences, the author examines the thinking of scholars within the Dutch, British and North American 'schools' of religious phenomenology. Many of the severe criticisms, which have been levelled against the phenomenology of religion during the past twenty-five years by advocates of reductionism, are then presented and analysed. The author concludes by reviewing alternatives to the polarised positions so characteristic of current debates in Religious Studies before making a case for what he deems a 'reflexive phenomenology'.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780826452900

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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