title: Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)
author:  Anthony J. Steinbock 
description: . . . an incredibly rich book about the phenomenology of mystical experience in the Abrahamic traditions, a book that will certainly be required reading for anyone working in the areas of religious experience and the intersection between theology and philosophy, especially in the continental tradition.Vol. 31 2009 (Andreas Nordlander <i>Pneuma Jrnl Society for Pentecostal Studies</i>)<br /><br />A single short review of this treatise suggests a light approach which does not [do] justice to this profound work. The thoughts and insights gathered and proposed by Steinbock provoke an equally concerted response and offer topics for discussion on many different disciplinary levels. (<i>Philosophy in Review</i>)<br /><br />Steinbock embarks on a full explication of three central dimensions of human experience; in doing so, he takes up and embodies the phenomenological project envisioned by Edmund Husserl. (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />Phenomenology and Mysticism stands out as an original work in a genre too often reduced to commentaries on classical figures. Steinbock is an acute phenomenologist in his own right, and this work sets a new standard for the interaction between phenomenology and theology/religious studies.VOLUME 35.1 MARCH 2009 (Andreas Nordlander <i>Lund University, Sweden</i>)<br /><br />Broader contributions from Phenomenology and Mysticism rest in careful engagement with philosophical phenomenology, not simply as a descriptive method, but as a coherent disciplinary field with potential theoretical resources to address ranges of phenomena beyond those that are typically evoked.Vol. 9 December 2008 (Janet Borgerson <i>University of Exeter</i>)
zlib_text: THE OLD AND THE NEW PHENOMENOLOGY
  OF RELIGION
  BRIAN HARDING
  Department of Psychology and Philosophy
  Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, USA
  The work of Michel Henry brashly introduces religious elements into phenomenology. Even
  if this was not apparent in The Essence of Manifestation, it becomes undeniable in the
  conﬂation of Christianity and phenomenology developed in I am the Truth.1 This in turn was
  criticized by Dominique Janicaud and the debate that ensued further cemented the
  connection between philosophy of religion and phenomenology.2 Likewise, there has been a
  renewed interest in early 20th century phenomenology and its antecedents, inspired in part by
  the debate about the theological turn.3 With these two points in mind I want to explore a
  largely forgotten approach to the relationship between phenomenology and religion, that of
  Gerardus van der Leeuw. He published two works on the phenomenology of religion, his
  Einfu¨rhung in die Pha¨nomenologie der Religion in 1925 and