Modern Societies and the Science of Religions: : : Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer / / edited by Gerard Wiegers in association with Jan Platvoet.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of religions, v. 95
• TeilnehmendeR: Leertouwer, Lammert.; Wiegers, Gerard Albert, 1959-; Platvoet, Jan.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 95.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 397 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; Dr. Lammert Leertouwer Curriculum Vitae, A Chronological List of His Publications, and a Selective List of His Other Academic and Administrative Responsibilities /; Introduction the Science of Religions: Its Social Functions and Applications in a Changing World --; Part I Europe and North America /; Histoire ou Science des Religions: Le Cas Francais /; Deux Institutions de Science des Religions en France: La Section des Sciences Religieuses de L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Ephe) Le Groupe de Sociologie des Religions /; One of the Mightiest Motors in the History of Mankind: C.P. Tiele's Impact on German Religionswissenschaft /; Pillars, Pluralism and Secularisation: A Social History of Dutch Sciences of Religions /; Neg Lusisse Pudet… /; The Science of Religions in Spain: The Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de Las Religiones in Madrid and IBN Rushd University in Córdoba --; Promise and Disappointment: Recent Developments in the Academic study of Religion in the United States /; Recent Trends in the Study of Israelite Religion /; Part II The Middle East and Africa /; The Sciences of Religions in Turkish History /; The Science of Religion in Israel with Notes on Interlocking Circles of Traditions /; The Study of Contemporary Islam in Morocco /; Discussions on Orientalism in Present-Day Saudi Arabia /; Modern South Africa and the Science of Religion: Productive and Inhibitive Models for the Study of Religions /; Part III Asia /; A Pillar of Social Harmony: The Study of Comparative Religion in Contemporary Indonesia /; Modern Japan and the Science of Religions /; Rediscovering Religion in China /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004379185
• ISSN: 0169-8834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gerard Wiegers in association with Jan Platvoet.

This book brings together studies by seventeen specialists in the science of religions in which they relate the changes in their discipline to the changes which have occurred in a select number of modern(ising) societies worldwide. It attempts to study these developments in their relation to and as conditioned and constrained by cultural change, changes in educational systems, technology, population (for example migration), economic patterns, politics, and, last but not least, religious systems. The essays focus on resp. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the USA, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, and China. Written in honour of Dr. Lammert Leertouwer, professor of History of Religions and the Comparative Study of Religions at Leiden University from 1979 until his retirement in 1997, the book is particularly important for all those who are interested in the religious, social and political contexts of the academic Study of Religions in general and in the various countries dealt with in particular.