A guide to the phenomenology of religion: key figures, formative influences and subsequent debates

Introduction. Defining the scope : phenomenology within the academic study of religions

Understanding phenomena : key ideas in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl

The universal experience of religion in Ritschlian theology

Ideal types and the social sciences : the contributions of Troelstch, Weber and Jung to phenomenological thinking

The decisive role of Dutch phenomenology in the new science of religion

From Africa to Lancaster : the British school of phenomenology

Interpreting the sacred : North American phenomenology at Chicago and in the thought of W.C. Smith

Phenomenology at the crossroads : subsequent debates in the academic study of religions.