Structure and Creativity in Religion: Hermeneutics in Mircea Eliade's Phenomenology and New DirectionsSinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline. |
Contents
EARLY METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES | 3 |
THE HERMENEUTICAL SITUATION TODAY | 69 |
The personal dimensions of religious phenomena | 86 |
Religious as practical and soteriological | 93 |
DISTINGUISHING RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA | 129 |
INTERPRETING THE MEANING OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA | 140 |
THE HISTORICALPHENOMENOLOGICAL TENSION | 173 |
DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATIONS AND LEVELS OF MEANING | 201 |
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