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    <title>introduction to the phenomenology of religion</title>
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    <publisher>Continuum</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
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    <extent>x, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">James L. Cox.</note>
  <note>"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.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Philosophy</topic>
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