Givenness and explanation: A phenomenological response to naturalist accounts in religious studies

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2009
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This dissertation contributes to ongoing scholarship regarding the phenomenology of religion by engaging it with debates in Religious Studies between naturalist methodologies, which reduce religious experience to social-scientific terms, and descriptive methodologies, which argue religious experience cannot be explained in nonreligious terms lest we lose that which is religious about the experience. I propose that in the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion, specifically in his phenomenology of revelation, we find a methodology that avoids the reductionism of the naturalist method while still explaining religion in a manner that avoids the apologetics associated with descriptive accounts of religion.

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Doctor of Philosophy
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Religion, Philosophy, Phenomenological research, Naturalism, Phenomenology, Social sciences, Philosophy, religion and theology, Marion, Jean-Luc, Phenomenology, Phenomenology of religion, Revelation, Saturated phenomenon
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Schunke, Matthew Paul. "Givenness and explanation: A phenomenological response to naturalist accounts in religious studies." (2009) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103750.

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