I’m trying to study for my Business course and I need some help to understand this question.

1) Biographical details: especially as it relates to personal religious/non-religious beliefs

and how those beliefs shaped their approach to the topic of religion; also upbringing,

academic situation (i.e., livelihood, any career difficulties).

2) 19th century European context: their views of modernity (industrialization, imperial

expansion, colonization, urbanization, technological progress, etc.) and religion’s place

in modernity.

3) Charles Darwin and the impact of his theory of evolution (Origin of the Species, 1859).

4) The Phenomenologists lament in other words, to what extent did these intellectual

thinkers manage to bracket their own moral judgment, presuppositions regarding religion (especially Christianity), ingrained assumptions regarding racial, gender, or cultural difference.