@article{ref1,
title="Pagan and Christian: Sociological Euhemerism Versus American Sociology of Religion",
journal="Sociology of religion",
year="1982",
author="Cavanaugh, Michael A.",
volume="43",
number="2",
pages="109-129",
abstract="Human knowledge is such that understanding of religion is inevitably disconsolate and pagan--specifically , Euhemeristic. So it was with classical sociological interpretations of religion, for which sociological accounts were alternatives to realist accounts or religious self-images. In guise of briefs for &quot;detente&quot; or against &quot;reductionism,&quot; American sociology of religion has converged upon a realist theory which reendorses religious self-images. Euhemeristic and realist accounts are compared in order to argue that realist theories of religion are not only bad general theories, they are actually anti-sociological theories. Realism has effectively impeded Euhemeristic accounts within American sociology of religion, although they are being given elsewhere.<p />",
language="",
issn="1069-4404",
doi="10.2307/3710792",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3710792"
}