The pragmatics of defining religion : : contexts, concepts, and contests / / Jan Platvoet and Arie L. Molendijk.
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. Religions being immensely varied,...
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Superior document: | Studies in the history of religions, v. 84 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : E. J. Brill,, 1999. |
Year of Publication: | 1999 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Numen Book Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- In Defence of Pragmatism / Arie L. Molendijk
- Modern Contexts
- The Politics of Defining Religion in Secular Society / James A. Beckford
- Religion as Claim / Massimo Introvigne
- Religion as Memory / Danièle Hervieu-Léger
- Paradoxes / Jacob A. Belzen
- Conceptual Changes
- ‘Religio’ and ‘Religion’ in the 18th Century / Ernst Feil
- Shifting Cargoes / Arie L. Molendijk
- THE SACRED in the Social Sciences / Wouter W. Belier
- Psychologists Define Religion / David M. Wulff
- Methodological Issues
- On Defining Religion / Hendrik Johan Adriaanse
- To Define or not to Define / Jan G. Platvoet
- Intuiting Religion / James L. Cox
- The Third Bank of the River / André F. Droogers
- Defining ‘Religions’ as the Domain of Study of the Empirical Sciences of Religions / Jan A.M. Snoek
- Definition Proposals
- Defining Religion in Spite of History
- The Definition of Religion
- What is Religion? / ter Borg Meerten B.
- On a Semantic Definition of Religion / Jeppe Sinding Jensen
- Religion as the Realization of Faith / Zock Hetty
- Epilogue
- Contexts, Concepts and Contests / Platvoet Jan G.
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.