A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780826452900)

The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences. This book examines the figures whom the author regards as having been most influential in creating a phenomenology of religion. Background factors drawn from philosophy, theology and the social sciences are traced before examining the thinking of scholars within the Dutch, British and North American schools of religious phenomenology.

Author: James L. Cox
ISBN-10: 0826452906
ISBN-13: 9780826452900
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.22w x 0.84d