ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Flood's argument, which starts with the problematics of Husserl's phenomenology, and continues by making the distinction between philosophies of consciousness and philosophies of the sign. Flood is a scholar in the study of religion and his work grapples with metatheory addressing methodological approaches on philosophical grounds and offering a critique of them. He refers to the hermeneutic tradition as a route for mounting a critique of phenomenology, and it worth noting in passing the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. Flood identifies the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl as one of the main influences on methodology in the study of religion and this is supported by Cox who writes that: Husserl's philosophy regarded as one of its major formative influences, alongside theology and the social sciences. He makes an appeal to dialogical theory that is coherent, but is only loosely based upon Bakhtin's work and Flood is not alone, however, in his position, and would find support from Michael Holquist.
