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050			_aBL41 _b.R363 1994
245		0	_aReligion and reductionism : _bessays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion / _cedited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
260			_aLeiden ; Boston : _bE. J. Brill, _c1994
300			_aviii, 236 p. _b; _c25 cm.
490			_aStudies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East, _v62
505			_aReductionism 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.
650			_aEliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.Segal, Robert Alan.Religion--Study and teaching.
700			_aIdinopulos, Thomas A.
700			_aYonan, Edward A.
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