Modern Societies and the Science of Religions: : : Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer / / 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...

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Superior document:Studies in the history of religions, v. 95
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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).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Jan Platvoet
  • Preface / Jan Platvoet
  • Dr. Lammert Leertouwer Curriculum Vitae, A Chronological List of His Publications, and a Selective List of His Other Academic and Administrative Responsibilities / Henk Jan De Jonge and Gerard Wiegers
  • Introduction the Science of Religions: Its Social Functions and Applications in a Changing World
  • Part I Europe and North America / Jan Platvoet
  • Histoire ou Science des Religions: Le Cas Francais / Michel Meslin
  • 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 / Jean Baubérot
  • One of the Mightiest Motors in the History of Mankind: C.P. Tiele's Impact on German Religionswissenschaft / Hans G. Kippenberg
  • Pillars, Pluralism and Secularisation: A Social History of Dutch Sciences of Religions / Jan Platvoet
  • Neg Lusisse Pudet… / Lammert Leertouwer
  • 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 / Donald Wiebe
  • Recent Trends in the Study of Israelite Religion / Karel van der Toorn
  • Part II The Middle East and Africa / Jan Platvoet
  • The Sciences of Religions in Turkish History / Ömer Faruk Harman and Ali Murat Yel
  • The Science of Religion in Israel with Notes on Interlocking Circles of Traditions / Shaul Shaked
  • The Study of Contemporary Islam in Morocco / Sjoerd van Koningsveld
  • Discussions on Orientalism in Present-Day Saudi Arabia / Qasim Al-Samarrai
  • Modern South Africa and the Science of Religion: Productive and Inhibitive Models for the Study of Religions / Abdulkader I. Tayob
  • Part III Asia / Jan Platvoet
  • A Pillar of Social Harmony: The Study of Comparative Religion in Contemporary Indonesia / Herman L. Beck
  • Modern Japan and the Science of Religions / Michael Pye
  • Rediscovering Religion in China / Kristofer Schipper
  • Index / Jan Platvoet.