Two Kinds of Phenomenological Approach Towards a Sacred Work of Art: Van der Leeuw and Eliade

Gerardus van der Leeuw and Mircea Eliade are the main religious phenomenologists who research the relationship between sacred and art. For both, the Holy reveals him through the arts in the forms of dance, drama, poetry, picture, architecture and music. However, when being intended to the phenomenon of the sacred art, the distinction between the Husserlian essentialist approach and the classical phenomenological method is reflected upon the approaches of van der Leeuw and Eliade. In this article, we will try to deliberate the methodological difference when both religious phenomenologists intend to a sacred art work.