Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion A Reader Book

	Preface
	General Introduction	1
Pt. I	Theoretical Background: Insides, Outsides, and the Scholar of Religion
1	Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	23
2	Etic and Emic Standpoints for the Description of Behavior	28
3	Is Understanding Religion Compatible With Believing?	37
4	"From the Native's Point of View": On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding	50
Pt. II	The Autonomy of Religious Experience
5	The Idea of the Holy, Chapters I-III	74
6	The Meaning and Task of the History of Religions (Religionswissenchaft)	82
7	A New Humanism	95
8	Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies	104
9	An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Religion	114
Pt. III	Reductionism and the Study of Religion
10	What is Enlightenment?	133
11	In Defense of Reductionism	139
12	Religious Discourse and First Person Authority	164
13	Reductionism and Belief: An Appraisal of Recent Attacks on the Doctrine of Irreducible Religion	179
14	Religion, Explanation, and the Askesis of Inquiry	197
Pt. IV	Neutrality and Methodological Agnosticism
15	Within and Without Religion	221
16	Neutrality in Religious Studies	235
17	The Study of Religion: Neutral, Scientific, or Neither?	248
18	Does Understanding Religion Require Religious Understanding?	260
19	Fessing Up in Theory: On Professing and Confessing in the Religious Studies Classroom	274
Pt. V	Reflexivity and the Role of the Researcher
20	The Scholarly Voice and the Personal Voice: Reflexivity in Belief Studies	294
21	The Witch as a Category and as a Person	311
22	The Uses and Misuses of Other People's Myths	331
23	Writing About "the Other"	350
24	Writing Ethnography: The Poetics and Politics of Culture	354
Pt. VI	Conclusion
25	The Devil in Mr. Jones	370
26	Religious Studies and "Heaven's Gate": Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange	390
27	Theses on Method	395
	Sources	399
	Index	403