Olof Pettersson
Biographic Data
| ID | 165445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olof Pettersson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olof |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettersson |
| SIGNATURE | PETTERSSON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1884-3471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Platonic Autonomy
Herdsmen and Stargazers
Together with the Sophist, Plato’s Statesman is often taken to introduce and develop a new scientific form of theoretical inquiry, represented by the Eleatic visitor. This paper draws on recent scholarship on the Sophist and evaluates the reliability of this scientific approach when applied to political matters in the Statesman. It analyzes how the Eleatic visitor identifies and tries to mend two central mistakes in his own initial definition of …
Old Nordic and Christian elements in Saami ideas about the realm of the dead
The fact that a word or concept has been borrowed from outside does not mean that the original content, the original ideas which the loan word in question expresses, have also been adopted. This is by no means the case when it is a question of abstract words and notions, such as the afterlife. A word, an idea, a custom is taken over but filled with new content; in its new context it acquires a genuinely Saami conceptual load, which has its origin…
Mother Earth
Der Begriff 'Volksreligion'. Ein religionsgeschichtliches Problem
Foreign influences on the idea of God in African religion
The study of primitive peoples has often neglected influences from the environments. The sociologists and the anthropologists regard the influence as a concrete fact that is taken in account with regard to the behaviour. They have—as a rule—no interest in studying the historical development. They take facts as they meet them in life. Studying African religions we must bear in mind that the influences of missions, for example Christian and Muslim,…
Divinity and destiny in the religion of Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda and Urundi belong to the Ruanda cluster of the interlactustrine Bantu in the regions surrounded by a great ring of lakes-Tanganyika, Kivu, Edward Albert, Kioga and Victoria. Pygmoid hunters and gatherers still survive among some tribes of the Ruanda cluster, and in both Ruanda and Urundi, people of "Hamitic" (Nilotic) origin live side by side with the original tribes. Most of the societies today reveal a sharp stratification into endogamou…
Magic - Religion
The germ of life
Divinity and destiny in the religion of Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda and Urundi belong to the Ruanda cluster of the interlactustrine Bantu in the regions surrounded by a great ring of lakes-Tanganyika, Kivu, Edward Albert, Kioga and Victoria. Pygmoid hunters and gatherers still survive among some tribes of the Ruanda cluster, and in both Ruanda and Urundi, people of "Hamitic" (Nilotic) origin live side by side with the original tribes. Most of the societies today reveal a sharp stratification into endogamou…
Magic - Religion
The germ of life
Magic - Religion
Divinity and destiny in the religion of Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda and Urundi belong to the Ruanda cluster of the interlactustrine Bantu in the regions surrounded by a great ring of lakes-Tanganyika, Kivu, Edward Albert, Kioga and Victoria. Pygmoid hunters and gatherers still survive among some tribes of the Ruanda cluster, and in both Ruanda and Urundi, people of "Hamitic" (Nilotic) origin live side by side with the original tribes. Most of the societies today reveal a sharp stratification into endogamou…
Foreign influences on the idea of God in African religion
The study of primitive peoples has often neglected influences from the environments. The sociologists and the anthropologists regard the influence as a concrete fact that is taken in account with regard to the behaviour. They have—as a rule—no interest in studying the historical development. They take facts as they meet them in life. Studying African religions we must bear in mind that the influences of missions, for example Christian and Muslim,…
Mother Earth
Der Begriff 'Volksreligion'. Ein religionsgeschichtliches Problem
Old Nordic and Christian elements in Saami ideas about the realm of the dead
The fact that a word or concept has been borrowed from outside does not mean that the original content, the original ideas which the loan word in question expresses, have also been adopted. This is by no means the case when it is a question of abstract words and notions, such as the afterlife. A word, an idea, a custom is taken over but filled with new content; in its new context it acquires a genuinely Saami conceptual load, which has its origin…
Herdsmen and Stargazers
Together with the Sophist, Plato’s Statesman is often taken to introduce and develop a new scientific form of theoretical inquiry, represented by the Eleatic visitor. This paper draws on recent scholarship on the Sophist and evaluates the reliability of this scientific approach when applied to political matters in the Statesman. It analyzes how the Eleatic visitor identifies and tries to mend two central mistakes in his own initial definition of …
Platonic Autonomy
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Astronomy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works)