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Religion and reductionism : essays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion / edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan.

Contributor(s): Idinopulos, Thomas A | Yonan, Edward A
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions: 62.Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994Description: viii, 236 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004098704 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion -- Study and teaching | Reductionism | Religion and the social sciences | Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 | Segal, Robert AlanDDC classification: 200/.7 LOC classification: BL41 | .R363 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Reductionism in the study of religion / Robert A. Segal -- Are religious theories susceptible to reduction? / Thomas Ryba -- Clarifying the strengths and limits of reductionism in the discipline of religion / Edward A. Yonan -- The instability of religious belief : some reductionistic and eliminative pressures / Terry F. Godlove, Jr. -- Must professors of religion be religious? : on Eliade's method of inquiry and Segal's defense of reductionism / Thomas A. Idinopulos -- Mircea Eliade and the battle against reductionism / Wayne Elzey -- Reduction without tears / Ivan Strenski -- Beyond the sceptic and the devotee : reductionism in the scientific study of religion / Donald Wiebe -- What is reductionism? / Arvind Sharma -- Human reflexivity and the nonreductive explanation of religious action / Lorne Dawson -- Religion, explanation, and the askesis of inquiry / Tony Edwards.
Explaining, endorsing, and reducing religion / Daniel Pals -- Before 'the sacred' became theological : Durkheim and reductionism / William E. Paden -- Reductionism in the classroom / George Weckman -- Reductions of a working historian / Dan Merkur -- Discourse with angels : literature and religion / Edward Tomarken.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reductionism in the study of religion / Robert A. Segal -- Are religious theories susceptible to reduction? / Thomas Ryba -- Clarifying the strengths and limits of reductionism in the discipline of religion / Edward A. Yonan -- The instability of religious belief : some reductionistic and eliminative pressures / Terry F. Godlove, Jr. -- Must professors of religion be religious? : on Eliade's method of inquiry and Segal's defense of reductionism / Thomas A. Idinopulos -- Mircea Eliade and the battle against reductionism / Wayne Elzey -- Reduction without tears / Ivan Strenski -- Beyond the sceptic and the devotee : reductionism in the scientific study of religion / Donald Wiebe -- What is reductionism? / Arvind Sharma -- Human reflexivity and the nonreductive explanation of religious action / Lorne Dawson -- Religion, explanation, and the askesis of inquiry / Tony Edwards.

Explaining, endorsing, and reducing religion / Daniel Pals -- Before 'the sacred' became theological : Durkheim and reductionism / William E. Paden -- Reductionism in the classroom / George Weckman -- Reductions of a working historian / Dan Merkur -- Discourse with angels : literature and religion / Edward Tomarken.

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