The Pragmatics of Defining Religion : Contexts, Concepts and Contests /
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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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
1999.
Series:
Numen Book Series
84.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
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Call Number: BL51 .P72 1999
- 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
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