Religious experience in the phenomenological-sociological concept of Gustav Mensching
RUDN Journal of Sociology June 30, 2026 E. A. Popov
This article presents approaches to the reception of religion proposed by the German sociologist and phenomenologist Gustav Mensching (1901-1978). Mensching’s primary goal was to identify a more meaningful perspective for studying religion in its existential and social essence. He proposed considering the interdisciplinary interaction between sociology of religion and phenomenology of religion,...