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Semantic Confusions and the Mysteries of Life: An Interview with Ulf Drobin (Sweden)


 
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1. Title Title of document Semantic Confusions and the Mysteries of Life: An Interview with Ulf Drobin (Sweden) - Global Phenomenologies of Religion
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country David Thurfjel; Södertörn University; Sweden
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) phenomenology; study of religion; history of religion; theory of religion; method of religion; Saussaye; can der Leeuw; IAHR
 
5. Subject Subject classification History of Religion
 
6. Description Abstract Ulf Drobin was a close associate and colleague of Åke Hultkrantz, Louise Bäckman and Per-Arne Berglie. As the following interview will illustrate, Drobin is a firm believer in the neutrality of the concept of Phenomenology of Religion (PoR) as a system for classification of religious phenomena and in its necessity for the scientific studies in religion. In line with Hultkrantz (1970) and several other prominent Scandinavian historians of religion – like William Brede Kristensen (1867–1953) and Geo Widengren (1907–1996) – he also criticizes all attempts to make PoR a matter of philosophical or theological positioning or concern (see Tucket 2016; Widengren 1969, 1972). It is worth mentioning that the History of Religions department at Stockholm University, from its beginning, has been eager to uphold a non-theological profile. Unlike the case at many other Swedish universities, from the early twentieth century religion was studied at Stockholm University from a historical perspective within the faculty of humanities and without connections to either Christian academic theology or to the Church as an institution. This situation still holds today. An early theoretical contribution from the department, that can be seen as an outcome of this explicitly non-theological ambition, was the formulation of analytical concepts that were not laden with Christian connotations. A prominent example here is the system of concepts of the soul which was developed by Arbman and Hultkrantz (Drobin 2016).
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 24-Mar-2021
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38468
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.38468
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Global Phenomenologies of Religion
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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