Man, Meaning, and Mystery: 100 Years of History of Religions by Hjelde

By Hjelde

This quantity offers with the placement within the educational learn of faith on the flip of the final century, focusing particularly at the founding fathers of the topic within the Scandinavian nations. An try is usually made to match the research of faith now with the placement a hundred years in the past.

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51 Max Weber, Economy and Society. An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Berkeley 1978, Vol. 1 p. 506. "Je mehr der Intellektualismus den Glauben an die Magie zuruckdrangt und so die Vorgange der Welt 'entzaubert' werden, ihren magischen Sinngehalt verlieren, nur noch 'sind' und 'geschehen', aber nichts mehr 'bedeuten', desto dringlicher erwachst die Forderung an die Welt und 'Lebensfuhrung' je als Ganzes, daB sie bedeutungshaft und 'sinnvoll' geordnet seien" (Max Weber, "Religionssoziologie (Typen religioser Vergemeinschaftung)" (1913).

3) To come to the third factor, Dutch science of religion is famous—or, as others would say, notorious—for its contribution to phenomenology of religion. But although the value of a phenome- 23 Cf. also van der Leeuw 1925. For more bibliographical information, see Waardenburg 1973 1974; de Ridder 1900b. 25 Mauss 1899. 24 AT THE CROSS-ROADS 27 nological approach has come under attack in more recent times,26 it was once an influential force in the field of the study of religion. It all began with Chantepie de la Saussaye's manual on the history of religions.

Cf. the contribution of Jan Bremmer to this volume. 45 32 ARIE L. MOLENDIJK understand their own religious feelings correctly. It could hardly have escaped the attention of his audience, however, that he considered the faith of believers as most precious and something to be taken very seriously. In a critique of "evaluative comparison" and evolutionism as such, which was aimed at Tiele some 15 years after the inaugural lecture, he was still more explicit in this respect. 49 But was Kristensen a phenomenologist from the start?

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