To the Things Themselves: Essays on the Discourse and Practice of the Phenomenology of Religion

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A historical and contemporary exploration of Phenomenology of Religion as a method in the study of religion.This book of twelve chapters may be conceptually divided into three parts, each consisting of four chapters. The connotations of the term 'Phenomenology of Religion' are subjected to a detailed analysis in the first part; in the second part the phenomenological method is located within the general methodological framework of religious studies, while the current debate around this method is spelled out in the last part, with the author making his own contribution to the debate in the last chapter. Foreword Preface Introduction CHAPTER I The Search for Terminological Exactitude: Phenomenon CHAPTER II The Search for Terminological Exactitude: Phenomenology of Religion CHAPTER III The Phenomenology of Religion CHAPTER IV The Phenomenology of Religion and the Phenomenological Movement CHAPTER V Can the Phenomenological Method be Applied to a Single Religious Datum? CHAPTER VI The Phenomenology of Religion as a Phenomenology of Families of Religions CHAPTER VII Towards a Phenomenological Hierarchy of Methods in the Study of Religion CHAPTER VIII Misconceptions about the Phenomenological Study of Religion in the Scientific Study of Religion CHAPTER IX Antireductionism and the Phenomenology of Religion CHAPTER X Some Applications of the Phenomenological Method CHAPTER XI Philosophical Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Religion CHAPTER XII From the Phenomenology of Religion to a Religious Way of Studying Religion? Conclusions Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects