Phenomenology and Mysticism

Phenomenology and Mysticism
Author: Anthony J. Steinbock
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-12-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0253221811

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Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions—St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Rūzbihān Baqlī—Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry—as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism—and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.

The Phenomenology of Religious Life

The Phenomenology of Religious Life
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-02-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253004497

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“Scrupulously prepared and eminently readable,” this volume presents Heidegger’s most important lectures on religion from 1920–21 (Choice). In the early 1920s, Martin Heidegger delivered his famous lecture course, Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, at the University of Freiburg. He also prepared notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Though he never prepared this material for publication, it represents a significant evolution in his philosophical perspective. Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, Neoplatonism, St. Paul, Augustine, and Martin Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature expression of his thought. Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche.

Phenomenology and the Holy

Phenomenology and the Holy
Author: Espen Dahl
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334043565

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In this book, Espen Dahl invites us to consider neglected resources with the phenomenological tradition, particularly in the later Husserl's and almost ethnographic attention to lived experience. Building a bridge from Otto and Husserl, through Schntz, to Wittgenstein and Cavell, Dahl reinvigorates phenomenology of religion as the philosophical investigation of worship."-James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College

Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality

Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality
Author: Essien, Essien D.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1799845966

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There is an interesting knowledge trajectory that God remains incomprehensible, not imperceptible. This lends credence to the fact that religious study since the Enlightenment has dedicated itself almost entirely to the problem of reconciling the non-existence of God in the physical world with his necessary existence in the metaphysical world. When seriously examined, it would be discovered that these two aspects are logically contradictory, and this is a problem with no solution. But interpreting God not as a physical being but as a phenomenological thing changes the nature of the problem enough that a solution emerges almost automatically. In this phenomenological model, the crux of the matter is that God does not exist, but God is real. Therefore, it is imperative to return to experience and verifiability, hence, purging it of unexamined and often hidden assumptions. Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality brings together the different disciplines and research approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of God and spirituality, as well as offering an effective epistemological apparatus capable of dealing with this concept. The book employs multidisciplinary approaches from religious studies, theology, philosophy, anthropology, and other segments to dissect the subject matter for efficient evaluation and all-inclusive findings. While covering various aspects of religion such as the testaments of the Bible, the church, the religious experience, and various aspects of spirituality, this book is intended for theologians, philosophers, religious leaders, policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, public institutions, and agencies with a special interest in religious matters, values, knowledge, and truth.

William James and Phenomenology

William James and Phenomenology
Author: James M. Edie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1987
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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The Phenomenology of Prayer

The Phenomenology of Prayer
Author: Bruce Ellis Benson
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0823224953

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This collection of groundbreaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer, and takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view.

Phenomenology of Religion

Phenomenology of Religion
Author: Archana Barua
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780739125199

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Phenomenology of Religion is designed to be a practical introduction to the discipline of acquiring an understanding of the art of communication, including religious communication, from a phenomenological perspective. It is an exploration of the meaning of specific expressions of religious life in a manner that does them justice, a manner that is emphatically sensitive to the viewpoint of the participants as well as appropriately objective. Out of the wide variety of themes covered by Husserl's phenomenology and later developed by Heidegger, Merleau Ponty, and others in different possible directions, the present work is an attempt at indicating the few features of the method which derives from Edmund Husserl's basic themes of the phenomenological movement and its methodology. It is an attempt at exploring the manner in which this method has been applied to the study of art and religion by other phenomenologists and accordingly to state and introduce the problem of this profound bulk--namely, the phenomenological apporach to religion--mostly in their terms. The present work seeks to provide insights into J. N. Mohanty's vision of phenomenology and of Husserl's ideas in particular, and contains discussion of some of the central issues which form the foundation of Husserlian transcendental phenomenology. Phenomenology of Religion will be of immense relevance to those who wish to pursue phenomenology from a cross-cultural perspective.

Phenomenology and Religion

Phenomenology and Religion
Author: Henry Duméry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780520027145

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A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion

A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion
Author: James Cox
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0826452906

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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. This book also examines the thinking of scholars within the Dutch, British and North American 'schools' of religious phenomenology.

Beyond Phenomenology

Beyond Phenomenology
Author: Gavin Flood
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1999-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0304705705

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This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion is always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested issues regarding truth and knowledge. It challenges the view that religions are privileged, epistemic objects, argues for the importance of metatheory, and presents an argument for the dialogical nature of inquiry. The study of religion should begin with language and culture, and this shift in emphasis to the philosophy of the sign in hermeneutics and away from the philosophy of consciousness in phenomenology has far-reaching implications. It means a new ethic of practice which is sensitive to the power relationship in any epistemology; it opens the door to feminist and postcolonial critique, and it provides a methodology which allows for the interface between religious studies, theology, and the social sciences.