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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Other Authors: Platvoet, Jan., Molendijk, Arie L.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.

Series: Numen Book Series 84.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Religion > Philosophy.

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Call Number: BL51 .P72 1999