Limits of Phenomenology of Religion. Deliberations on the book Phenomenology and Mysticism by Anthony J. Steinbock

Abstract

The author of this article investigates whether Anthony J. Steinbock, in his book Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience, succeeds in overcoming the difficulties and objections which the phenomenology of religion traditionally comes up against.

Among these are, most importantly, the problem of going beyond immanence and the question of whether the investigation of religion from a phenomenological point of view is fact possible.

Keywords

• phenomenology of religion
• Anthony J. Steinbock
• religious experience