Peter McKenzie

[ 1 ] - Phenomenology of Religion : A Systematic Approach

What follows is an attempt to see Otto the phenomenologist within wider developments in the field, and to take account of some recent criticisms. Everything that is said falls under the general headingof 'introduction to the study of religion'(or 'meta-religionswissenschaft') Within this wide field, we shall be specifically concerned with the possibility of a systematic phenomenology of religio...

[ 2 ] - Reconceptualising Religion : A Philosophical Critique of Religious Studies as Cultural Studies

The aim of my argument (1) is to reconceptualise what is now called religious studies as the study of institutionalised values, and the relation between values and the legitimation of power in a specific society. Though I do not talk much about power here, it is always a fundamental issue in the study of specific social groups.The first assumption which I make in this paper is that the way anal...

[ 3 ] - Book Review

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