James L. Cox

A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion (eBook, PDF)

Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441183934
• Artikelnr.: 40778712

Autorenporträt

James L. Cox is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK and Adjunct Professor in the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One: Formative Influences Chapter 1: Edmund Husserl and
Philosophical Phenomenology From Descartes to Kant The Significance of
Hegel Husserl and the Transformation to Idealism Husserl's Phenomenological
Method Chapter 2: Theological Influences: The School of Albrecht Ritschl
The Theological Climate at the Time of Ritschl Ritschl's Theology of
Religions Wilhelm Herrmann and Religion as Communion with God Ernst
Troeltsch: A Bridge to the Social Sciences Chapter 3: Reductionism and the
Social Sciences Evolutionary Assumptions in the Study of Primitive
Religions Projectionist Theories as Explaining Religion Classic Cases in
Social Scientific Reductionism: Durkheim and Freud Part Two: Key
Phenomenological Schools Chapter 4: Foundational Figures in the Dutch
School of Phenomenology Background to the Study of Religions in the
Netherlands C P Tiele and P D Chantepie de la Saussaye: Christianity as a
World Theology W Brede Kristensen as Advocate of the Believer Gerardus van
der Leeuw and the Formation of Phenomenological Typologies C J Bleeker's
Universal Structure of Religion Chapter 5: Phenomenology in the United
Kingdom The African Connection: Parrinder, McKenzie, Walls and Harold
Turner E O James and Ninian Smart: From Comparative Religion to
Phenomenology Frank Whaling and the Study of Religions in Edinburgh Chapter
6: North American Phenomenology: Wach, Eliade and W C Smith History of
Religions as Diachronic Phenomenology Joachim Wach's Empathetic Sociology
Mircea Eliade: Religon as a Longing for the Sacred Wilfred Cantwell Smith's
Meaning and End of Religion Part Three: Subsequent Debates Chapter 7: The
Reductionist-Religionist Debate Current Polarities The Reductionists:
Segal, Wiebe and Strenski The Anti-Religionists: Fitzgerald and Platvoet
Chapter 8: Alternatives to Phenomenology Dialogical Approaches: Panikkar,
Krieger and Flood Religion as Cultural Studies The Cognitive Science of
Religion Hervieu-Leger and Religion as a Chain of Memory Chapter 9: A New
Phenomenology of Religion Self-Reflexivity and the Phenomenological
Tradition Knowing the 'Other' within Oneself Converting to the 'Other' as
Phenomenological Empathy Bibliography Index