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Imagination and egocentricity: A Profile of Religious Experience by a phenomenology of corporality

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2022

Abstract

There is an intimate connection between forms of egocentrism and dealing with the unavailable Absolute. A phenomenology of corporality can clarify this connection by asking about the role of the imaginative as a world-forming force and treating its actualization on the basis of the experience of the real.

The profile of possible processes of religious experience gained in this way can be substantiated with examples of human cultural development, whereby cultural phenomena are at the same time placed in a new horizon of interpretation. The present text sketches the basic lines of such an interpretative profile.