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?
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