A Critique of Peter Burger's Phenomenological Approach to Religion and Social Order

Peter Burger was trained in a phenomenological school, and so his approach to the study of religion has a phenomenological character. He considers religion a kind of social understanding to which people turn in their social life especially their daily life to make itmeaningful. Making use of the works available and documentary sources, the present essay tries, to shed light through a theoretical analysis, on Burger's biography and the ideas by which he was influenced-which crystalizing his philosophical, sociological and religious thoughts in order to criticize his approach to religion.