Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates - Softcover

Cox, James

 
9780826452894: Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates

Synopsis

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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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.

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ISBN 10:  0826452906 ISBN 13:  9780826452900
Publisher: Continuum International Publishi..., 2006
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