Signifikansi Pendekatan Fenomenologi terhadap Dinamika Religious Studies: Kajian atas Pemikiran Dauglas Allen

Abstract

Researches in religious studies?as well as Islamic studies?often use approaches that lead to simplistic and reductionist conclusions. This indeed runs counter to the substance of pluralism which is rich in its symbol and intensional representation. This article is an effort to describe the significance of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion by using the works of Douglas Allen as the main entrance. In doing so, it tries to understand religious data from the epoche, eidetic and verstehen perspectives in a way that just and balanced conclusion may be reached.