The Sacred and Its Scholars Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data

Thomas A. Idinopulos, Ph.D., University of Chicago, is Professor of Religious Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His published books include: Jerusalem Blessed, Jerusalem Cursed: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy City From David's Time to our Own (1991), The Erosion of Faith: An Inquiry into the Origins of the Contemporary Crisis in Religious Thought (1971), Land Weathered By Miracles: Historic Palestine From Bonaparte to Ben-Gurion (in progress), Mysticism, Nihilism, Feminism: New Critical Essays in the Theology of Simone Weil (co-editor, 1984) and Religion and Reductionism: Eliade, Segal, and the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion (co-editor, 1994).
Edward A. Yonan, Ph.D., University of Chicago, is Professor at the Department of Religion at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. His publications include Religion and Reductionism and articles in a number of major journals.