The pragmatics of defining religion : : contexts, concepts, and contests / / Jan Platvoet and Arie L. Molendijk.
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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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of religions, v. 84 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : E. J. Brill,, 1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Numen Book Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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