To the Things Themselves: Essays on the Discourse and Practice of the Phenomenology of Religion (Religion and Reason Book 39)

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 / Jacques Waardenburg -- Ch. I. The Search For Terminological Exactitude: Phenomenon -- Ch. Ii. The Search For Terminological Exactitude: Phenomenology Of Religion -- Ch. Iii. The Phenomenology Of Religion -- Ch. Iv. The Phenomenology Of Religion And The Phenomenological Movement -- Ch. V. Can The Phenomenological Method Be Applied To A Single Religious Datum? -- Ch. Vi. The Phenomenology Of Religion As A Phenomenology Of Families Of Religions -- Ch. Vii. Towards A Phenomenological Hierarchy Of Methods In The Study Of Religion -- Ch. Viii. Misconceptions About The Phenomenological Study Of Religion In The Scientific Study Of Religion -- Ch. Ix. Antireductionism And The Phenomenology Of Religion -- Ch. X. Some Applications Of The Phenomenological Method -- Ch. Xi. Philosophical Phenomenology And The Phenomenology Of Religion -- Ch. Xii. From The Phenomenology Of Religion To A Religious Way Of Studying Religion? Arvind Sharma ; With A Foreword By Jacques Waardenburg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-297) And Indexes. 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

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.