Dünyanın Yerel Bilimi: Dinler Tarihi

Abstract

History of Religions is a secular discipline, belonging to the humanitas, studies the religion and
religons both in local and universal contextes. Its traditional ways are the historical comparison
and phenomenological methods which have been giving some ways to the new apporaches such
as feminist, analytical and congnitive ones. This article deals with its emergence both in European
and American academic milleu and with its methodologies that shape it in the past and the present
along with its problems and futures.