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Phenomenology of religion

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References and further reading

  • Bergson, H.-L. (1932) Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion, Paris: F. Alcan; trans. R.A. Audra and C. Brereton, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1935.

    (A dyadic typology.)

  • Eliade, M. (1949) Le mythe de l’éternel retour: archétypes et répétition, Paris: Gallimard; trans. W.R. Trask, The Myth of the Eternal Return, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954.

    (A dyadic typology.)

  • Eliade, M. (1949) Traité d’histoire des religions, Paris: Payot; trans. R. Sheed, Patterns in Comparative Religion, New York: New American Library, 1958.

    (A rich, thematic study of a wide variety of phenomena.)

  • Frazer, Sir J.G. (1922) The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, New York: Macmillan, abridged edn, 1960.

    (An encyclopedic source of materials.)

  • James, W. (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

    (A classic study that includes a dyadic typology along with studies of conversion, saintliness and mysticism.)

  • Leeuw, G. van der (1933) Phänomenologie der Religion, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck); trans. J.E. Turner, Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology, New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

    (First major study to call itself a phenomenology of religion.)

  • Otto, R. (1917) Das Heilige, Gotha: L. Klotz; trans. J.W. Harvey, The Idea of the Holy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

    (Classic source of descriptions of the holy as ‘Wholly Other’ and as mysterium tremendum et fascinans.)

  • Ricoeur, P. (1960) La symbolique du mal, Paris, Aubier; trans. E. Buchanan, The Symbolism of Evil, New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

    (Rich study of the symbolic and mythological dimensions of religion, with a fourfold typology.)

  • Westphal, M. (1984) God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

    (A comprehensive, introductory study that includes discussion of methodology and the essence of religion along with a triadic typology.)

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