An introduction to the phenomenology of religion /
James L. Cox.
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.
- x, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"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.