TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1982//
TI  - Pagan and Christian: Sociological Euhemerism Versus American Sociology of Religion
JO  - Sociology of religion
A1  - Cavanaugh, Michael A.
SP  - 109
EP  - 129
VL  - 43
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 "detente" or against "reductionism," 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 /> 
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SN  - 1069-4404
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3710792
ID  - ref1
ER  -