Religion

Abstract

Art and religion in phenomenology may be compared to two intersecting circles. The exact range of the intersection varies in the works of different authors. Philosophers like martin heidegger and/or maurice merleau-ponty offer phenomenologies in which the range of intersection is relatively wide; for others, like max scheler and/or edmund husserl, the intersection of the two circles is either minor or unperceivable. Phenomenology has contributed to the theory of art and religion in important ways, but a common phenomenology of art and religion has not been developed in a systematic way.