ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the philosophical prerequisites for the kind of explaining that has been the focus thus far and for the understanding that is being approached. In other words, it is not the prerequisites necessary for the actual events of religion and war to occur that are under investigation, but the prerequisites that make the discourse of the contemporary perspectives possible. The definitional prerequisites deal with a fundamental distinction between explanation and understanding. Although the common usage of the terms explanation and understanding is easy to comprehend, it has little relevance in the present conceptualisation. The epistemological phenomenon draws heavily on the basis of the conceptualisation of religion. Although language is a vital part in the conceptualisation of bias and assumptions, it is nonetheless true that most underlying presuppositions are dependant on language only inasmuch as they need a medium to be disseminated. Acknowledging the assumptions and presuppositions may then facilitate understanding of the possible implications of the discourse.
