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Intro -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part One: Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism: Are There Differences Through History? -- Jew-hatred: Greco-Roman Times to the Spanish Exile -- Jew-hatred: The French Revolution to the Nazis -- Part Two: The Problem of Anti-Semitism: Theoretical versus Practical Solutions -- Christianity: A Guest in the House of Israel? -- Jews Be Damned: Is Christology Inherently Anti-Semitic? -- Eradicating Anti-Judaism from The Book of Common Prayer -- Part Three: Fateful Connections: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust -- The Nazi Vision of Utopia -- Explaining the Unexplainable -- Part Four: Judaism, Christianity, and the Holocaust: Theological Responses to Evil -- Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: There is No Law and There is No Judge? -- The Churches and Hitler: Was There Church Resistance to Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy? -- The Question for Christians after the Holocaust: Was the Cross Triumphant Over Sin and Death? -- Betrayal of Spirit -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditional site of Jesus' tomb, Greek Archbishop Diodoros was installed in March, 1981, as the new Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, one of the five ancient Orthodox patriarchates, is headquarters for a church whose domain is Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian West Bank and whose flock consists almost entirely of Arabs—some 120,000 in Jordan and 40,000 in Israel and the West Bank.Many of Jerusalem's Christian, Jewish, and Arab leaders attended the installation ceremony at the twelfth-century Romanesque-Gothic church, as did representatives of the more than fifty local Orthodox. Catholic, Uniate, Monophysite and Protestant communities.

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.

Preliminary Material /Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson -- The Strengths and Weaknesses of Durkheim's Methodology for the Study and Teachingof Religion /Thomas A. Idinopulos -- The Creation of Human Behavior: Reconciling Durkheim and the Study of Religion /William E. Paden -- Secularism and the Sacred: Is there Really Something Called "Secular Religion"? /W. Watts Miller -- Pragmatism and Protestantism in the Development of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion /Robert Alun Jones -- Robertson Smith's Influence on Durkheim's Theory of Myth and Ritual /Robert A. Segal -- Durkheim, Kant and the Social Construction of the Categories /Tony Edwards -- The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes: An Overview /John I. Brooks -- Durkheim, Judaism and the Afterlife /Ivan Strenski -- Durkheim and Early Christianity /James Constantine Ranges -- Altars and Chalkstones: The Anomalous Case of Puritan Sacred Space in Light of Durkheim's Ritheory of Tual /Brian C. Wilson -- Select Bibliography /Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson -- Index of Names /Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson -- Index of Subjects /Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson.