Religion and reductionism : essays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion

RELIGION AND REDUCTIONISM: ESSAYS ON ELIADE, SEGAL, AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I The Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion
	1 Reductionism in the Study of Religion
	2 Are Religious Theories Susceptible to Reduction?
	3 Clarifying the Strengths and Limits of Reductionismin the Discipline of Religion
	4 The Instability of Religious Belief: Some Reductionistic andEliminative Pressures
PART II Reductionism, Eliade, and Segal
	5 Must Professors of Religion by Religous? On Eliade's Method ofInquiry and Segal's Defense of Reductionism
	6 Mircea Eliade and the Battle Against Reductionism
	7 Reduction without Tears
	8 Beyond the Sceptic and the Devotee: Reductionism in theScientific Study of Religion
	9 What is Reductionism?
	10 Human Reflexivity and the Nonreductive Explanation of Religous Action
	11 Religion, Explanation, and the Askesis of Inquiry
	12 Explaining, Endorsing, and Reducing Religion
PART III Sources and Applications of Reductionism
	13 Before 'The Sacred' Became Theological: Durkheim and Reductionism
	14 Reductionism in the Classroom
	15 Reductions of a Working Historian
	16 Discourse with Angels: literature and Religion
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS NUMEN BOOKSERIES