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23. Okt. 2018 · To be more specific about philosophy of religion and its Big Questions, it is necessary to have a heuristic definition of religion. Religion can be defined in many different ways, and some people ...
James’s classic work in Philosophy of Religion is The Varieties of Religious Experience, a set of lectures originally published in 1902. (The subtitle is: “A Study in Human Nature.”) He begins by pointing out that there is no single specific definition of religion, and that definitions “are so many and so different from one another is ...
IV. RELIGION, FAITH,AND EVIDENCE 33. DEFINITIONS OF RELIGION. In discussions of philosophyit is usually—and quite rightly—taken for granted that there isno need of beginning with a definition. Philosophy is thatbranch of literature represented by Plato and Aristotle, Des-cartes and Spinoza, Hobbes and Locke, Berkeley and Hume,Leibniz and ...
Intellectual substantive definitions identify religion based on the con-tent of belief. The most famous of such definitions is E.B. Tylor’s definition of religion as “belief in Spiritual Beings” (Tylor [1871] 1920, 424). Experiential substantive definitions, however, suggest a distinctive experience is more basic than belief, and ...
21. Juli 2021 · The aim of this entry is to orient readers to an ongoing debate about the definition of the concept “religion” that cuts across disciplinary lines, among them: anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and most recently, cognitive science. Due to the number of fields taking part in the conversation, it behooves scholars to take a balanced ...
Metzler Lexikon Philosophie Religion. Religion. als Begriff in Philosophie ( Religionsphilosophie ), Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (einschließlich Religionssoziologie, -psychologie, -phänomenologie) in z.T. erheblich divergierenden Bezügen verwendet. Die Grenzen zu verwandten Feldern, etwa zu Magie in Hinblick auf die praktische, zu ...
11. Juni 2020 · Abstract. A Philosophical Definition of Religion A philosophical (or descriptive) definition is necessary in order to understand what makes religion what it is: its essence. In understanding its ...
