"This book is a thorough revision of my earlier text, Expressing the sacred : an introduction to the phenomenology of religion, published first in 1992 by the University of Zimbabwe Publications in Harare, with a second edition appearing in 1996"--Acknowledgements.
Preface
Defining religion
Historical background : philosophical phenomenology and the social sciences
Stages in the phenomenological method
The phenomenological method : a case study
Myths and rituals
Religious practitioners and art
Scripture and morality
The special case of belief
The place of the phenomenology of religion in the current and future academic study of religion.
An introduction to the phenomenology of religion by James L. Cox. ISBN 9781441171597. Published by Continuum in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.