01655nam a2200193Ia 4500 230823s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97890040987019004098704 eng BL41 .R363 1994 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 Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 1994 viii, 236 p. ; 25 cm. Studies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East, 62 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. Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.Segal, Robert Alan.Religion--Study and teaching. Idinopulos, Thomas A. Yonan, Edward A. 46434 46434