The first part of the paper examines the historical and theoretical assumptions underpinning the reception of phenomenology in interwar Yugoslavia. The author points out that philosophers who had already established their philosophical position did not consider phenomenology to be valuable philosophy. The thinkers of a radical ideological orientation, either on the left or on the right side of the political spectrum, were also hostile to it. The second part analyzes the theological reception, bearing in mind that a significant part of the institutional philosophical life was occupied by theologically educated thinkers at that time. Particular attention has been paid to the Jesuit rejection of phenomenology as an idealistic propaganda of human absoluteness, behind which lies a hidden, »subconscious« Protestant longing to return to the mother wing of the Catholic Church. On the other hand, the Orthodox priest recognized in phenomenology an extraordinary methodology for analyzing religious experiences, by means of which he remarkably approached Heidegger’s relationship between phenomenology and religion. The third part of the paper explores the peculiarities of interpreting Husserl’s phenomenology by his student, Zagorka Mićić. Concluding his paper, author claims that Serbian culture can be proud of the first woman in Europe to have published a book on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology.