What is Phenomenology of Religion?
1. A subdiscipline of the modern academic study of religion.
2. It seeks to discover and make understandable to outsiders the understandings held by insiders.
3. It combines empathy and objectivity.
4. It brings to light common patterns and also differences. [eng]
Phenomenology of Religion A. Scott Moreau, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, revised edition; forthcoming 2000. History of the Term. Philosophical Phenomenology. Distinctives of Phenomenology of Religion. General Critique. [eng]