religiosaStudia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религииStudia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion2658-4158РГГУ10.28995/2658-4158-2021-4-94-116religiosa-136Research ArticleПубликация источниковThe SourcesСмысл религии: фрагменты из книгиThe meaning of religionКристенсенВ. Б.KristensenW. B.2021211220210494116Copyright © Кристенсен В.Б., 20212021Кристенсен В.Б.Kristensen W.B.Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://srr.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/136

Вильям Бреде Кристенсен (1867–1953) – крупнейший ученый-религиовед ХХ в., историк и феноменолог религии, представитель голландской феноменологической школы, видевшей задачу феноменологии религии в классификации религиозных феноменов, в упорядочивании и осмыслении того исторического материала, который к тому времени был в изобилии собран эмпирическими науками о религии. В настоящей публикации предлагается перевод важных фрагментов из его посмертно опубликованного труда «Смысл религии» (1960). Это вторая и третья части «Общего введения», где Кристенсен излагает методологические принципы своей концепции, а также первая глава первой части «Смысла религии» – «Введение в космологию», где автором формулируются основы религиозного восприятия вселенной в древних религиях.

W.B. Kristensen (1867–1953) is the prominent scholar of the 20th century famous for his works on history and phenomenology of religion, the representative of the Dutch phenomenological school. He saw the task of phenomenology of religion in the systematization of historical phenomena, as well as in the ordering and comprehension of the historical material, which by that time was abundantly collected by the empirical sciences of religion.

The present publication offers translation of significant fragments from his book “The Meaning of Religion” posthumously published in 1960. Those are the second and third parts of “General Introduction” where Kristensen discusses important methodological foundations of his conception, as well as the first chapter of the Part I (“Introduction to Cosmology”) dedicated to religious conceptions of cosmic order in ancient religions.

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