Pluralism and Identity, : Studies in Ritual Behaviour.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 67
• Author: Platvoet; van der Toorn (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Platvoet, Jan.; Toorn, K. van der.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 67.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 376 pages).
• Notes: "Papers presented at an international conference in Leiden University on 14 and 15 January 1995"--Page 3.

The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra . Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and de...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn
• Ritual responses to plurality and pluralism / Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn
• Ritual in plural and pluralist societies / Jan Platvoet
• Similarity and demarcation / Jan Snoek
• Ritual and identity in Aboriginal Australia / Wouter Belier
• Identity, religious pluralism and ritual in Brazil / André Droogers
• Ritual as communication / Gerrie ter Haar
• Rituals around the bodhi-tree in Bodhgayâ, India / Albertina Nugteren
• The ‘Latrines decree’ in the Yemen versus the dhimma principles / Joseph Sadan
• Rituals of confrontation / Jan Platvoet
• Ritual resistance and self-assertion / Karel van der Toorn
• Islamic purity at odds with Javanese identity / Herman Beck
• Circumcision in Indonesia / Nico Kaptein
• Language and identity / Gerard Wiegers
• Between communalism and secularism / Sjoerd van Koningsveld
• Pluralism and identity / Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn
• Index of authors / Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn
• Subject index / Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn
• Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn.