The Pragmatics of Defining Religion

The Pragmatics of Defining Religion
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Total Pages : 582
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ISBN-10 : 9004115447
ISBN-13 : 9789004115446
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Download or read book The Pragmatics of Defining Religion written by Jan G. Platvoet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pragmatics of Defining Religion" is a multidisciplinary volume on the problem of the definition of religion with chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, the methodology of its definition; it includes several definition proposals.


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