Platvoet Platvoet
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Platvoet Platvoet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Platvoet |
| FAMILY NAME | Platvoet |
| SIGNATURE | PLATVOET P |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department for the Study of Religions Faculty of TheologyLeiden UniversityP.O.B. 9515NL-2300 RA Leiden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Modern Societies & the Science of Religions: Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer
This book brings together studies by seventeen specialists in the science of religions in which they relate the changes in their discipline to the changes which have occurred in a select number of modern(ising) societies worldwide. It attempts to study these developments in their relation to and as conditioned and constrained by cultural change, changes in educational systems, technology, population (for example migration), economic patterns, pol…
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, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, le…
Recent Studies on Religions in Africa
Pluralism and Identity: Studies in Ritual Behaviour
The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and demarcation, on the negative case of the Australian Aboriginals, on Brazilian religious pluralism, and on Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands. Three ess…
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Pluralism and Identity: Studies in Ritual Behaviour
The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and demarcation, on the negative case of the Australian Aboriginals, on Brazilian religious pluralism, and on Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands. Three ess…
Recent Studies on Religions in Africa
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, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, le…
Modern Societies & the Science of Religions: Studies in Honour of Lammert Leertouwer
This book brings together studies by seventeen specialists in the science of religions in which they relate the changes in their discipline to the changes which have occurred in a select number of modern(ising) societies worldwide. It attempts to study these developments in their relation to and as conditioned and constrained by cultural change, changes in educational systems, technology, population (for example migration), economic patterns, pol…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (2 works)