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Phenomenology of Religious Life
The Centre has recently entered into a collaboration with the Centre for Subjectivity Research ([CSR] University of Copenhagen) on the topic ‘Phenomenology of the Religious Life’. This will involve jointly convened seminar, workshop and conference events as well as exchange visits for both teaching and research.
The title ‘Phenomenology of Religious Life’ (taken from the young Heidegger’s lecture courses on philosophy of religion) is here meant to indicate a philosophical approach that does not seek to reduce religion to philosophy. Rather, in focusing on how humans understand the life they live in and through religion, a phenomenology of religious life both addresses the question what religion is about (what matters to humans who understand their lives in an through religion) and deals with philosophical issues at play in understanding religion as a human concern (for example, issues in philosophical anthropology and in theories of emotions). Within this framework the collaboration hopes to contribute in significant ways to reformulating philosophical approaches to religion, especially with regard to contemporary debates about the role and legitimacy of religious belief in common life.
First steps in this collaboration include:
- In Hilary term the Modern Theology Seminar will be themed on the topic of ‘Phenomenology and Theology’, and Dr Claudia Welz from CSR will be speaking on Monday 8th March at 2.15 p.m.
- Profs Flood and Pattison will be contributing to the CSR course on ‘Phenomenology and Religious Studies’ (see the CFS calendar http://cfs.ku.dk/calendar-main/calendar2010).
Information about further events will follow.
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