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BOOK REVIEWS J EPPE S INDING J ENSEN , The Study of Religion in a New Key: Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion — Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 2003 (509 p.) ISBN 87–7934–091–1 (pbk.) DKK398.00. Despite the fact that some scholars during the last fifteen years have tried to somehow revitalise ‘phenomenology’ — now under the rubric of ‘neo- phenomenology’ or ‘new comparativism’ — there can be no doubt that the majority of scholars in the academic study of religion today respond to such an attempt with various forms of scepticism. In his courageous doctoral the- sis, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, without bothering too much about political cor- rectness, uncovers the hidden agendas of both sides of this debate and intends to break new ground for a study of religion that is both self-critical and openly normative. He argues that “the ‘post-phenomenology of religion’ could be construed as a radically critical version — one that questions and cuts right through the mass of tacit presuppositions, ‘received wisdom’ and other items best discarded. Yet our basic intention must not be lost: to install a theoretically oriented comparative and general perspective in the study of
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Published: Jan 1, 2005
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