The phenomenological method was brought to the United States primarily by the German-American historian of religions Joachim Wach (1898–1955), who established Religionswissenschaft (Science of Religion) in Chicago and was thus the founder of the modern “Chicago school” (though his successor, Mircea Eliade, has a rather different slant). Wach was concerned with emphasizing three aspects of religion—the theoretical (or mental; i.e., religious ideas and images), the practical (or behavioral), and the institutional (or social); and because of his concern for the study of religious experience, he interested himself in the sociology of religion, attempting to indicate how religious ... (100 of 18,807 words)The “Chicago school”
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Religion"/> Detail of Religion, a mural in lunette from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce, 1897; in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
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Karl Barth, 1965.
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Hesiod, detail of a mosaic by Monnus, 3rd century; in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier, Ger.
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Desiderius Erasmus, oil on wood by Hans Holbein the Younger, after 1523.
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Immanuel Kant, print published in London, 1812.