Toc: General Introduction Part I: Theoretical Background: Insides, Outsides, and the Scholar of Religion Introduction 1 Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema 2 Kenneth L. Pike: Etic and Emic Standpoints for the Description of Behavior 3 Alasdair MacIntyre: Is Understanding Religion Compatible With Believing? 4 Clifford Geertz: “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding Part II: The Autonomy of Religious Experience Introduction 5 Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy, Chapters I-III. 6 Joachim Wach: The Meaning and Task of the History of Religions {Religionswissenschaft) 7 Mircea Eliade: A New Humanism 8 Rosalind Shaw: Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies 9 Raymond Firth: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Religion Part III: Reductionism and the Study of Religion Introduction 10 Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment? 11 Robert A. Segal: In Defense of Reductionism 12 Terry F. Godlove, Jr.: Religious Discourse and First Person Authority 13 Daniel Pals: Reductionism and Belief: An Appraisal of Recent Attacks on the Doctrine of Irreducible Religion 14 Tony Edwards: Religion, Explanation, and the Askesis of Inquiry Part IV: Neutrality and Methodological Agnosticism Introduction 15 Ninian Smart: Within and Without Religion 16 Peter Donovan: Neutrality in Religious Studies 17 Peter Byrne: The Study of Religion: Neutral, Scientific, or Neither? 18 Donald Wiebe: Does Understanding Religion Require Religious Understanding? 19 Mar