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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