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

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