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Pluralism and identity : studies in ritual behaviour / edited by Jan Platvoet and Karel van der Toorn.

Contributor(s): Platvoet, Jan | Toorn, K. van der
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions: 67.Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995Description: vi, 376 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004103732 (hard : alk. paper)Subject(s): Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses | Ritual -- Congresses | Religious pluralism -- Congresses | Identification (Religion) -- CongressesDDC classification: 291.3/8 LOC classification: BL600 | .P58 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:

"Papers presented at an international conference in Leiden Universtiy on 14 and 15 January 1995"--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ritual responses to pluralitly and pluralism / Jan Platvoet & Karel van der Toorn -- Ritual in plural and pluralist societies / Jan Platvoet -- Similarity and demarcation / Jan Snock -- Ritual and identity in Aboriginal Australia / Wouter belier -- Identity, religious pluralism and ritual in Brazil: Umbanda and Pentecostalism / Andre Droogers -- Ritual as communication: a study of African Christian communities in the Bijlmer district of Amsterdam / Gerrie ter Harr.

Rituals around the bodhi-tree in Bodhgaya, India / Albertina Nugteren -- The 'Latrines decree' in the Yemen versus the dhimma principles / Joseph Sadan -- Rituals of confrontation : the Ayodhya conflict / Jan Platvoet -- Ritual resistance and self-assertion : the Rechabites in Early Israelite religion / Karel van der Toorn -- Islamic purity at odds with Javanese identity : the Muhammadiyah and the celebration fo the Garebeg Maulud ritual in Yogyakarta / Herman Beck -- Circumcision in Indonesia : Muslim or not? / Nico Kaptein -- Language and identity : pluralism and the use of non-Arabic languages in the Muslim West / Gerard Wiegers -- Between communalism and secularism : modern Sunnite discussions on male head-gear and coiffure / Sjoerd van Koningsveld -- Pluralism and identity : an epilogue / Jan Platvoet & Karel van der Toorn.

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