Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Understanding Religion -- Introduction / Gothóni, René -- Major Contributions of Philosophical Phenomenology and Hermeneutics to the Study of Religion / Allen, Douglas -- Phenonomenology of Religion: Between 'Given' and Constructed / Laitila, Teuvo -- "Going, going, gone" - Or How I Fail to Gain Hermeneutic Understanding / Sjöblom, Tom -- Phenomenology as a Preliminary Method / Utriainen, Terhi -- Response / Allen, Douglas -- Explaining Religion -- Introduction / Pyysiäinen, Ilkka -- Beyond Thick Descriptions and Interpretive Sciences: Explaining Religious Meaning / Wiebe, Donald -- The Limits of Explaining in Religious Studies / Holm, Nils G. -- Science/Religion Controversy - Are the Grounds of Naturalism Still Valid for Their Confrontation? / Anttonen, Veikko -- Understanding the Other / Gothóni, René -- Response / Wiebe, Donald -- Critical Approaches in the Comparative Study of Religion -- Introduction / Sakaranaho, Tuula -- Methodology - Tool or Trap? Comments from a Feminist Perspective / Gross, Rita M. -- Research and Sexual Difference / Heinämäki, Elisa -- When is Methodology a Trap? / Ketola, Kimmo -- Skyhooks and Toeholds in the Study of Religion / Taira, Teemu -- Response / Gross, Rita Μ. -- Summary -- Religion and Relations. The Social Dimension of Methodological Argumentation / Vesala, Kari Mikko / Pesonen, Heikki |