Prolegomena to a Philosophical Phenomenology of Religion
The aim of this paper is to deal with a slightly erroneous claim made in previous research that philosophical phenomenology has shown little interest in the topic of “religion”. The majority of this article deals with the branch of the Movement that I have dubbed Sociological Phenomenology which ste...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 97-136 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie
/ Phenomenology of religion
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl
Peter Berger
James Spickard
phenomenology of religion
Max Scheler
sociology of knowledge
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Summary: | The aim of this paper is to deal with a slightly erroneous claim made in previous research that philosophical phenomenology has shown little interest in the topic of “religion”. The majority of this article deals with the branch of the Movement that I have dubbed Sociological Phenomenology which stems out of the work of Alfred Schutz and Max Scheler and has influenced scholars of religion like Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann and James Spickard. I offer a Husserlian critique of this branch of phenomenology for failing to appreciate the key insights of his later phenomenology’s “ontological turn” where he turned to an analysis on the natural attitude and the life-world. I conclude by showing what a phenomenology or religion consistent with these later insights may look like. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
Contains: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341420 |