抄録
The four ideal types of the religious act may also be considered as the four stages of religious awakening. In this essay, the religious act is viewed from the side of the existential subjectivity as well as from the side of social objectivity. In my view, these two aspects are united in active religiosity.
The content of this article was originally destined to be the introductory part of a series of lectures given at Kyoto University under the title of “The Science of Religion in General”. But with the increase of my interest in phenomenology of religion, it has further developed into something that could play the role of mediator between the philosophical phenomenology of religion and the objective descriptive phenomenology of religious phenomena.
The present article contains only the first and second types (stages) in relation with ordinary life and extraordinary events.
