What is Phenomenology of Religion? (Part II): The Phenomenology of Religious Experience

This article is part II of a consideration of phenomenology of religion focusing in this part on the conversation in contemporary French phenomenology. It begins with a brief comment about Heidegger's phenomenology of religious life and then engages most heavily those thinkers who discuss the phenomenon of religion in the Francophone context: Jean Hering, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Jean-Louis Chretien, and Emmanuel Falque. The article concludes with a brief consideration of the contemporary Anglophone conversation and the ways in which these French thinkers are appropriated in the current discussion about the phenomenality of religion.