Religious system
The religious systematics is a specialty of religious studies , which is also called systematic or comparative religious studies . Until the 1960s, the term religious phenomenology was also used synonymously. Today the subject is divided into two approaches:
- The phenomenology of religion compares, describes and classifies phenomena from different religions.
- The religious typology groups religions into types according to certain characteristics.
The methodology of the subject is based on cultural comparison . The raw material is the entire history of the religion as well as ethnographic records . Already for Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900), who is considered to be the founder of religious studies, the comparison was fundamental.
In 1924 Joachim Wach delimited the system of religion as an independent discipline from the history of religion . According to Hans-Jürgen Greschat , the history of religion deals with the specific - the description of the individual, historical developments of certain religions - while the religious system is concerned with the general - the systematic research and recognition of overarching patterns.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The complete article is based on Johann Figl (author): Introduction to Religious Studies - Historical Aspects, Today's Expertise and Concept of Religion, in Johann Figl (Ed.): Handbuch Religionswissenschaft: Religionen und their central themes. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7022-2508-0 . Pp. 41-42.