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Religion and reductionism : essays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion
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Religion and reductionism : essays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion

Author: Thomas A Idinopulos; Edward A Yonan
Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.
Series: Studies in the history of religions, 62.
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Named Person: Mircea Eliade; Robert Alan Segal; Mircea Eliade; Robert Alan Segal
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas A Idinopulos; Edward A Yonan
ISBN: 9004098704 9789004098701
OCLC Number: 28928543
Description: viii, 236 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Studies in the history of religions, 62.
Responsibility: edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan.

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