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

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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.