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245 0 4 _aThe Pragmatics of Defining Religion :
_bContexts, Concepts and Contests /
_cedited by Jan G. Platvoet and Arie L. Molendijk.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c1999.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aStudies in the history of religions,
_x0169-8834 ;
_vv. 84
490 0 _aNumen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material --
_tPreface --
_tNotes on the Contributors --
_tIntroduction --
_tIn Defence of Pragmatism /
_rArie L. Molendijk --
_tModern Contexts --
_tThe Politics of Defining Religion in Secular Society /
_rJames A. Beckford --
_tReligion as Claim /
_rMassimo Introvigne --
_tReligion as Memory /
_rDanièle Hervieu-Léger --
_tParadoxes /
_rJacob A. Belzen --
_tConceptual Changes --
_t‘Religio’ and ‘Religion’ in the 18th Century /
_rErnst Feil --
_tShifting Cargoes /
_rArie L. Molendijk --
_tTHE SACRED in the Social Sciences /
_rWouter W. Belier --
_tPsychologists Define Religion /
_rDavid M. Wulff --
_tMethodological Issues --
_tOn Defining Religion /
_rHendrik Johan Adriaanse --
_tTo Define or not to Define /
_rJan G. Platvoet --
_tIntuiting Religion /
_rJames L. Cox --
_tThe Third Bank of the River /
_rAndré F. Droogers --
_tDefining ‘Religions’ as the Domain of Study of the Empirical Sciences of Religions /
_rJan A.M. Snoek --
_tDefinition Proposals --
_tDefining Religion in Spite of History --
_tThe Definition of Religion --
_tWhat is Religion? /
_rter Borg Meerten B. --
_tOn a Semantic Definition of Religion /
_rJeppe Sinding Jensen --
_tReligion as the Realization of Faith /
_rZock Hetty --
_tEpilogue --
_tContexts, Concepts and Contests /
_rPlatvoet Jan G. --
_tIndex of Names --
_tIndex of Subjects --
_tStudies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.
520 _aThis 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, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, legitimate and useful that many definitions of religions are developed. The volume has contributions from scholars in Philosophy of Religion, the Comparative Study of Religions, Anthropology of Religion, Sociology of Religion and Psychology of Religion. It has chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, and the methodology of its definition; it includes several definition proposals.
650 0 _aReligion
_xPhilosophy.
700 1 _aPlatvoet, Jan.
700 1 _aMolendijk, Arie L.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, [1999],
_z9789004115446
830 0 _aNumen Book Series
_v84.
830 0 _aNumen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004379091
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