Does the spirit truly arise from where it wishes? A critical analysis of three modes of understanding the phenomenology of religion
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.29.2012.5318Keywords:
phenomenology, religion, foundation, universality, pathos, testimony,Abstract
The article studies three different modes of understanding the phenomenology of religion, which are called the methodological-hermeneutical, the foundational-transcendental, and the pathic-testimonial standpoints, by a critical analysis of paradigmatic examples of each view. This analysis attempts, first, to explain the methodological features and the essential differences of each of the three perspectives. second, the article shows how the pathic-testimonial viewpoint allows a convergence between religious revelation and phenomenological philosophy, and legitimates the manifoldness of confessional and non-confessional manifestations of religion. Finally, it shows how the third viewpoint «dissolves» the problems of universality and foundation that weaken the other two stances.Downloads
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2012-06-01
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Garrido Maturano, Ángel. (2012). Does the spirit truly arise from where it wishes? A critical analysis of three modes of understanding the phenomenology of religion. ENDOXA, 1(29), 249–282. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.29.2012.5318
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