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,

James L. Cox

Continuum,

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.

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.

AU Cox, James L.(James Leland).Expressing the sacred.

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51

.C68

2010

9781441191380 (HB) ,

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

c2010