The phenomenological approach to the study of religion requires the student to __________

a. accept as factual everything they are told by the representatives of the religion under investigation
b. evaluate a religion from the perspective of the outside observer
c. judge the validity of a religious tradition based on the student's presuppositions
d. understand a religion from the perspective of persons within that particular religious tradition


d

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