Religion and Reductionism, Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion.
Idinopulos; Yonan (Editors)
Religion and Reductionism, Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion. - 1 online resource. - Numen Book Series 62. Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837. .
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Reductionism in the Study of Religion / Are Religious Theories Susceptible to Reduction? / Clarifying the Strengths and Limits of Reductionism in the Discipline of Religion / The Instability of Religious Belief: Some Reductionistic and Eliminative Pressures / Must Professors of Religion be Religious? Comments on Eliade’s Method of Inquiry and Segal’s Defense of Reductionism / Mircea Eliade and the Battle Against Reductionism / Reduction without Tears / Beyond the Sceptic and the Devotee: Reductionism in the Scientific Study of Religion / What is Reductionism? / Human Reflexivity and the Nonreductive Explanation of Religious Action / Religion, Explanation, and the Askesis of Inquiry / Explaining, Endorsing, and Reducing Religion: Some Clarifications / Before “The Sacred” Became Theological: Rereading the Durkheimian Legacy / Reductionism in the Classroom / Reductions of a Working Historian / A Discourse with Angels: Literature and Religion / Index of Names / Index of Subjects / Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Robert A. Segal -- Thomas Ryba -- Edward A. Yonan -- Terry F. Godlove -- Thomas A. Idinopulos -- Wayne Elzey -- Ivan Strenski -- Donald Wiebe -- Arvind Sharma -- Lorne Dawson -- Tony Edwards -- Daniel L. Pals -- William E. Paden -- George Weckman -- Dan Merkur -- Edward Tomarken -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- 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.
9789004378841
10.1163/9789004378841 DOI
Religion--Study and teaching.
Reductionism.
Religion and the social sciences.
BL41 / .R363 1993
200/.7
Religion and Reductionism, Essays on Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion. - 1 online resource. - Numen Book Series 62. Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837. .
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Reductionism in the Study of Religion / Are Religious Theories Susceptible to Reduction? / Clarifying the Strengths and Limits of Reductionism in the Discipline of Religion / The Instability of Religious Belief: Some Reductionistic and Eliminative Pressures / Must Professors of Religion be Religious? Comments on Eliade’s Method of Inquiry and Segal’s Defense of Reductionism / Mircea Eliade and the Battle Against Reductionism / Reduction without Tears / Beyond the Sceptic and the Devotee: Reductionism in the Scientific Study of Religion / What is Reductionism? / Human Reflexivity and the Nonreductive Explanation of Religious Action / Religion, Explanation, and the Askesis of Inquiry / Explaining, Endorsing, and Reducing Religion: Some Clarifications / Before “The Sacred” Became Theological: Rereading the Durkheimian Legacy / Reductionism in the Classroom / Reductions of a Working Historian / A Discourse with Angels: Literature and Religion / Index of Names / Index of Subjects / Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Robert A. Segal -- Thomas Ryba -- Edward A. Yonan -- Terry F. Godlove -- Thomas A. Idinopulos -- Wayne Elzey -- Ivan Strenski -- Donald Wiebe -- Arvind Sharma -- Lorne Dawson -- Tony Edwards -- Daniel L. Pals -- William E. Paden -- George Weckman -- Dan Merkur -- Edward Tomarken -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- 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.
9789004378841
10.1163/9789004378841 DOI
Religion--Study and teaching.
Reductionism.
Religion and the social sciences.
BL41 / .R363 1993
200/.7