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Definition: Mircea Eliade, usually associated with the "Chicago School" of religious studies, was a Romanian-born scholar whose work has become influential in the academic study of religion. According to Eliade, religion cannot be studied or understood through reductionist methodlogies in psychology or sociology - instead, it can only be understood on its own terms. Eliade also argued that the one thing which unites all religions and which differentiates religions from other human beliefs or pursuits is some irreducible element of the "sacred" in human experience.
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