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The subjectivity inherent to the phenomenological study of religion makes complete and comprehensive understanding highly difficult. However, phenomenologists aim to separate their formal study of religion from their own theological worldview and to eliminate, as far as possible, any personal biases (e.g., a Christian phenomenologist would avoid studying Hinduism through the lens of Christianity).

There are a number of both theoretical and methodological attitudes common among phenomenologists: [https://web.archive.org/web/20000817094359/http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/phenom.htm source]

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* Phenomenologists tend to oppose the acceptance of unobservable matters and grand systems erected in speculative thinking;