The article reconstructs the methodological context in which Jacques Waardenburg’s neo-phenomenology of religion emerges. It argues that Waardenburg’s project is not an external rejection of classical phenomenology of religion, but its internal critical revision. Classical phenomenology gave religious studies a language for describing religious phenomena and preserved attention to meaning, yet...
The article deals with the classical philosophical problem of the relationship between the subject and the object of consciousness. The author clarifies the basic concepts of this topic, such as “consciousness”, “external reality”, “subject of consciousness”, “object of consciousness”. Two key approaches to the problem of subject and object are compared: realism and subjective idealism. The...