The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological QuestionsAmbitiously undertaking to develop a strategy for making the study of religion scientific, Ninian Smart tackles a set of interrelated issues that bear importantly on the status of religion as an academic discipline. He draws a clear distinction between studying religion and doing theology, and considers how phenomenological method may be used in investigating objects of religious attitudes without presupposing the existence of God or gods. He goes on