essays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion Idinopulos, Thomas A. Yonan, Edward A. text xx Leiden ; Boston E. J. Brill 1994 9999 monographic und eng

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viii, 236 p. ; 25 cm. 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. edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.Segal, Robert Alan.Religion--Study and teaching BL41 .R363 1994 97890040987019004098704 230823