Religion and Reductionism, Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion.

Religion and Reductionism, Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion.

This volume on Religion and Reductionism grew out of a conference convened in November, 1990, where the participants were asked to respond to the conceptual and methodological problem of reductionism in the academic study of religion. The conference focused on the writings of Robert A. Segal and his...

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Main Author: Idinopulos; Yonan (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1993.

Series: Numen Book Series 62.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Religion > Study and teaching.
Reductionism.
Religion and the social sciences.

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Call Number: BL41 .R363 1993

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Introduction /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • 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
  • Must Professors of Religion be Religious? Comments 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: Some Clarifications /
  • Daniel L. Pals
  • Before "The Sacred" Became Theological: Rereading the Durkheimian Legacy /
  • William E. Paden
  • Reductionism in the Classroom /
  • George Weckman
  • Reductions of a Working Historian /
  • Dan Merkur
  • A Discourse with Angels: Literature and Religion /
  • Edward Tomarken
  • Index of Names /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Index of Subjects /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan.