Kripal, Jeffrey J.Crowell, Steven Galt2018-12-032018-12-032009Schunke, 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>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103750This 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.215 ppengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.ReligionPhilosophyPhenomenological researchNaturalismPhenomenologySocial sciencesPhilosophy, religion and theologyMarion, Jean-LucPhenomenologyPhenomenology of religionRevelationSaturated phenomenonThesis751578817THESIS RELI. 2010 SCHUNKE