Religion and Reductionism: Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion
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 i...
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Leiden Boston
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1993
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| In: | Year: 1993 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Segal, Robert Alan 1948-
/ Religion
/ Reductionism
/ Eliade, Mircea 1907-1986
B Religion / Reductionism B Science of Religion |
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Collection of essays
B Religion and the social sciences B Conference program 1990 (Oxford, Ohio) B Religion Study and teaching B Reductionism |
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Erscheint auch als: Religion and Reductionism: Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion. - Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1993. - 9789004098701 |
| Summary: | 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. This volume on Religion and Reductionism grew out of a conference convened in November, 1990, where the participants were asked to respond to the conceptual and methodological problem of reductionism in the academic study of religion. The conference focused on the writings of Robert A. Segal and his defence of reductionism and criticism of Mircea Eliade's non-reductive interpretation of religion. At the Miami conference some of the most important and enduring questions were raised: (1) What is religion? (2) What is religion and/or religious meaning? (3) How should religion be studied and taught? (4) What are the possibilities and limits of social scientific analyses of religious phenomena? (5) What is reductionism? (6) What is anti-reductionism? These and other questions on religion and reductionism are widespread and invite serious consideration; they help to illuminate the basic issues that are at the core of any study of the world's major religions |
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| ISBN: | 9004378847 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004378841 |