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An introduction to the phenomenology of religion James L. Cox.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.Description: x, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781441191380 (HB)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.72 22
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .C685 2010
Contents:
Preface -- Defining religion -- Historical background : philosophical phenomenology and the social sciences -- Stages in the phenomenological method -- The phenomenological method : a case study -- Myths and rituals -- Religious practitioners and art -- Scripture and morality -- The special case of belief -- The place of the phenomenology of religion in the current and future academic study of religion.
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"This book is a thorough revision of my earlier text, Expressing the sacred : an introduction to the phenomenology of religion, published first in 1992 by the University of Zimbabwe Publications in Harare, with a second edition appearing in 1996"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.

Preface -- Defining religion -- Historical background : philosophical phenomenology and the social sciences -- Stages in the phenomenological method -- The phenomenological method : a case study -- Myths and rituals -- Religious practitioners and art -- Scripture and morality -- The special case of belief -- The place of the phenomenology of religion in the current and future academic study of religion.

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