Yoshitsugu Sawai:
Rudolf Otto and the Foundation
of the History of Religions
London: Bloomsbury Academic
2022, 216 pp
- ISBN-10 : 1350259446
- ISBN-13 : 978-1350259447
- Author: Yoshitsugu Sawai is Professor Emeritus in the History of Religions at Tenri University, Japan.
- >>> Rudolf Otto - Biografie
mit Veröffentlichungen (wikipedia) >>>
>>> Das Original: Rudolf Otto. Das Heilige. Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen (1917) -
Neuausgabe =5. Aufl. 2014 (mit einen Vorwort von Hans Joas), 294 S.
mit Veröffentlichungen (wikipedia) >>>
>>> Das Original: Rudolf Otto. Das Heilige. Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen (1917) -
Neuausgabe =5. Aufl. 2014 (mit einen Vorwort von Hans Joas), 294 S.
- Book Summary / Abstract
This book provides an up-to-date treatment of Rudolf Otto and his work, placing him in the context of comparative religion, theology, and the philosophy of religion.
Yoshitsugu Sawai shows how Otto has “three faces”: the Lutheran Theologian, the Philosopher of Religion, and the Comparative Religionist. The book also shows how, of these, Otto saw himself primarily as a Lutheran Theologian, and provides an account of Otto’s engagement with India and the centrality that Hindu theology had on his thinking.
In Otto’s theory of religion, his well-known concepts including “wholly other” and “numinous” constitute a multiple structure of meaning. For example, his concept of the “wholly other” (das ganz Andere) no doubt has the meaning of “God” in his Christian theological studies. At the same time, however, from the perspective of comparative religion or the phenomenology of religion, this same term semantically implies the “ultimate reality” of other religious traditions; “Brahman” and “God” (Isvara) in Hindu religious tradition as well as “God” in Christianity.
Contents / Inhalt
Introduction : The History of Religions and Otto’s Perspectives on Religion --- pp. 1–12
Chapter 1. Otto’s Lifetime as a Christian Theologian --- pp. 13–28
Chapter 2. Journeys to the East: India as the Foundation
of Otto’s Comparative Religion--- pp. 29–50
Chapter 3. Comparative Religious Perspectives on the Holy --- pp. 51–70
Chapter 4. Influences of the History-of-Religions School on Otto’s Religious Theory --- pp. 71–84
Chapter 5. Parallelism of Mysticism in Religions East and West --- pp. 85–102
Chapter 6. The Concept of the “Wholly Other” and the Experience of the Depth --- pp. 103–114
Chapter 7. Vedānta Philosophy as the Discourse of Mystic Experience --- pp. 115–126
Chapter 8. Toward the Semantic Understanding of Religions --- pp. 127–146
- Book Summary / Abstract
This book provides an up-to-date treatment of Rudolf Otto and his work, placing him in the context of comparative religion, theology, and the philosophy of religion.
Yoshitsugu Sawai shows how Otto has “three faces”: the Lutheran Theologian, the Philosopher of Religion, and the Comparative Religionist. The book also shows how, of these, Otto saw himself primarily as a Lutheran Theologian, and provides an account of Otto’s engagement with India and the centrality that Hindu theology had on his thinking.
In Otto’s theory of religion, his well-known concepts including “wholly other” and “numinous” constitute a multiple structure of meaning. For example, his concept of the “wholly other” (das ganz Andere) no doubt has the meaning of “God” in his Christian theological studies. At the same time, however, from the perspective of comparative religion or the phenomenology of religion, this same term semantically implies the “ultimate reality” of other religious traditions; “Brahman” and “God” (Isvara) in Hindu religious tradition as well as “God” in Christianity.
Contents / Inhalt
Introduction : The History of Religions and Otto’s Perspectives on Religion --- pp. 1–12
Chapter 1. Otto’s Lifetime as a Christian Theologian --- pp. 13–28
Chapter 2. Journeys to the East: India as the Foundation
of Otto’s Comparative Religion--- pp. 29–50
Chapter 3. Comparative Religious Perspectives on the Holy --- pp. 51–70
Chapter 4. Influences of the History-of-Religions School on Otto’s Religious Theory --- pp. 71–84
Chapter 5. Parallelism of Mysticism in Religions East and West --- pp. 85–102
Chapter 6. The Concept of the “Wholly Other” and the Experience of the Depth --- pp. 103–114
Chapter 7. Vedānta Philosophy as the Discourse of Mystic Experience --- pp. 115–126
Chapter 8. Toward the Semantic Understanding of Religions --- pp. 127–146
Das Heilige als Problem der gegenwärtigen Religionswissenschaft
Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Peter Lang 2015. 143 S.
Reihe: Theion.
Studien zur Religionskultur -
Studies in Religious Culture. Bd. XXX
Print: ISBN 978-3-631-65400-2 –
E-Book: ISBN 978-3-653-04429-4
Kurzrezension: hier
Ausführliche Beschreibung
und seiner Erlebnistheorie des Heiligen
im Kontext kulturhistorischer, empirischer
von Theorien des Heiligen auf phänomenologischer Basis.
und an Leonardo da Vinci vor.
Das Sakrale – in der traditionellen Kultur tabuisiert – funktioniert in diesem Weltmodell dann als das Numinose (S. 97).Im Sinne einer genaueren Klärung ist es wichtig, hier noch einmal auf den Beitrag von Marianne Schröter über
ERGÄNZEND:
- Pablo Argaráte / Willibald Hopfgartner (Hg.):Zwischen Gott und Welt; das Heilige.
Religiöse Erfahrung
und theologische Reflexion.
Theologie im kulturellen Dialog,, Bd. 42
Innsbruck-Wien: Tyrolia 2023, 221 S.
(Besprechung in Vorbereitung)
- Hans Joas: Die Macht des Heiligen.
Eine Alternative zur Geschichte der Entzauberung.
Berlin: Suhrkamp 2017, 527 S. -
>>> Inhaltsverzeichnis und Leseprobe: hier - Thorsten Dietz / Harald Matern (Hg.): Rudolf Otto. Religion und Subjekt.
Christentum und Kultur, Bd. 12.
Zürich: TVZ 2012, 264 S., Register
Rezension: hier - Carsten Colpe (1929-2009): Über das Heilige.
Versuch, seiner Verkennung, kritisch vorzubeugen.
Frankfurt/M. Hain 1990, 93 S. - Carsten Colpe (Hg.): Die Diskussion um das "Heilige".
Wege der Forschung, Bd. CCCV
Darmstadt: WBG 1977, 500 S., Namenregister
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