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.
- ISBN10 1441183930
- ISBN13 9781441183934
- Publish Date 15 June 2006 (first published 1 January 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Format eBook
- Pages 276
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/