JAUNĀ RELIĢIOZITĀTE FILOSOFIJAS SKATĪJUMĀ
New Religiosity in the View of Philosophy.

Summary/Abstract: Maija Kūle, academician, professor, director of the Institute of Philosophy and sociology, University of Latvia publishes the article based on the paper delivered in the CESNUR 14th International Conference "New Religiosity in 21st Century", which took place in Riga in 2000. The author, emphasizing the tradition of phenomenological philosophy in Latvia starting from the pre-Second World War period and 70-s and 80-s of the Soviet era, states that phenomenology as philosophical outlook could be useful in analyzing the phenomenon of New Religiosity in the 21st century's cultural context. To regard something as phenomenon means to evade reductionism, strivings to find explanations on the sole basis of drawing phenomenon into causal relations.

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