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Melford Spiro – From Essentialist to Empirical Theories of Religion

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Chantepie de la Saussaye – Phenomenologist of Religion

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Gerardus van der Leeuw – Art as the Essence of Religion

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Rudolf Otto – Religious Experience as Apprehension of the Holy

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Essence of Religion as Delusion or Illusion

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Friedrich Schleiermacher – Religion as “the Feeling of Absolute Dependence”

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