Understanding religion -- Introduction / Rene Gothoni -- Major contributions of philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics to the study of religion / Douglas Allen -- Phenonomenology of religion : between 'given' and constructed / Teuvo Laitila -- Going, going, gone, or how i fail to gain hermeneutic understanding / Tom Sjoblom -- Phenomenology as a preliminary method / Terhi Utriainen -- Response / Douglas Allen -- Explaining religion -- Introduction / Ilkka Pyysininen -- Beyond thick descriptions and interpretive sciences: explaining religious meaning / Donald Wiebe -- The limits of explaining in religious studies / Nils G. Holm -- Science/religion controversy, are the grounds of naturalism still valid for their confrontation? / Veikko Anttonen -- Understanding the other / Renr Gothoni -- Response / Donald Wiebe -- Critical approaches in the comparative study of religion -- Introduction / Tuula Sakaranaho -- Methodology, tool or trap? : comments from a feminist perspective / Rita M. Gross -- Research and sexual difference / Elisa Heinimski -- When is methodology a trap? / Kimmo Ketola -- Skyhooks and toeholds in the study of religion / Teemu Taira -- Response / Rita M. Gross.
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