Open AccessTHEORY OF LEVELS OF RELIGIOSITY IN CLASSICAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION
Author(s) -
Tatiana Samarina
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2018.2.101-109
Subject(s) - mysticism , religiosity , typology , phenomenology (philosophy) , psychology of religion , relation (database) , philosophy , epistemology , feeling , psychoanalysis , psychology , sociology , theology , anthropology , database , computer science
The article deals with the theory of levels of religiosity proposed by one of the classics of the phenomenology of religion F. Heiler. In his works he offered a system of levels of religiosity structured from primitive to higher - mystical and prophetic - types. The article presents Heiler’s theory and summarizes the main features of the two higher types of religiosity, showing their specificity, similarities and differences. The article presents typology and distinctive features of mysticism and demonstrates that Heiler was far from uniting mysticism into a single whole. He divides mysticism in relation to feelings (hot and cold mysticism) and in relation to the mind (simple and rational-theological mysticism, which is divided into philosophical and psychological). In the final part of the article the author refers to the influences that the theory of two types of religiosity had on the works of Max Weber, Gershom Sсholem and Anna-Marie Sсhimmel.