10.17192/mjr.2025.26.8852 Sawai, Yoshitsugu Yoshitsugu Sawai Rudolph Otto and the Study of Religions Marburg Journal of Religion : Vol 26 No 1 (2025) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2025 history of religions Toshihiko Izutsu phenomenology of religion numinous Vedanta Eckhart Rudolf Otto das Heilige Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology 2025-05-27 2025-05-27 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2025/334/8852 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2025-334-88523 https://doi.org/10.17192/ https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2025/334/8852/8852.png 1612-2941 application/pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This paper is the text of a lecture delivered at Marburg University, with which Tenri University has a sister relationship. After the COVID-19 pandemic caused my proposed lecture to be postponed for three years, I am all the more delighted to be here in Marburg once again, on my eighth visit. It is an honour to be invited to deliver this lecture on the contemporary study of religions, focusing on Rudolf Otto’s religious theory, here at Marburg University. 1612-2941 Marburg Journal of Religion Vol 26 No 1 (2025)