Alfred Schutz and phenomenology of religion

explorations into ambiguous territory

Michael Staudigl

Universität Wien

pp. 491-499

in: Michael Staudigl (ed), Alfred Schutz and religion, Human Studies 40 (4), 2017.

Abstract

Alfred Schutz’s socio-phenomenological account is paradigmatic for what has been termed a non- or post-foundational phenomenology of the social world (Steinbock 1995; Mensch 2001). The variety of related topics on which it has been applied over the last few decades is vast, covering a broad range of cultural, political, and technological (recently even socio-technological) phenomena. Applied phenomenology, thus viewed, is definitely flourishing and in a variety of instances helps us bridge the still yawning gap that threatens the interdisciplinary connectivity of research in the humanities and social sciences. Interestingly, however, religion, a topic that indeed calls for such broad, interdisciplinary inquiry and post-foundational ways of analysis, thus far has largely been absent from the invigorating prospects of Schutzian research.

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