ظاهراتية الدين : تأمل منهجي في تعيناتها المعرفية

Abstract EN

The phenomenology of religion currently enjoys acceptance by a large number of researchers of religion.

This trend has entered the domain of religious study under the influence of the phenomenology presented by Husserl.

The essential elements of the phenomenology of religion are: the description of religious phenomena without providing explanation, the focus on the aspect of consciousness in religious phenomena, challenging the analytical outlook, suspending all presumptions and prior information, and the pursuit to witness religion in itself.

The phenomenology of religion lacks all the aspects of a complete epistemological system, and for this reason it cannot be considered an independent discipline which contains a full epistemological designation.

At best, the phenomenology of religion is merely a compilation and not an independent discipline or method of judgment.

Therefore, all of the following flaws -mere description, neglect of clarification and explanation, failure in protection against the transformation tendency, reliance on general or obscure concepts, and the lack in a specific pedagogical model or recorded research methodology for rectifying theories when judging them and for scrutinizing compilations -have led to the uselessness of the phenomenology of religion as a logical discipline for understanding religion.