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

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dc.contributor.advisorKripal, Jeffrey J.
dc.contributor.advisorCrowell, Steven Galt
dc.creatorSchunke, Matthew Paul
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T18:33:29Z
dc.date.available2018-12-03T18:33:29Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.format.extent215 pp
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS RELI. 2010 SCHUNKE
dc.identifier.citationSchunke, Matthew Paul. "Givenness and explanation: A phenomenological response to naturalist accounts in religious studies." (2009) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103750">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103750</a>.
dc.identifier.digital751578817
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103750
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectReligion
dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subjectPhenomenological research
dc.subjectNaturalism
dc.subjectPhenomenology
dc.subjectSocial sciences
dc.subjectPhilosophy, religion and theology
dc.subjectMarion, Jean-Luc
dc.subjectPhenomenology
dc.subjectPhenomenology of religion
dc.subjectRevelation
dc.subjectSaturated phenomenon
dc.titleGivenness and explanation: A phenomenological response to naturalist accounts in religious studies
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentReligious Studies
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
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