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Review of G. Widengren, Religionsphänomenologie (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1969)

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
Tijdschrift voor Theologie 11, 1 (1971):79

Bespreking van Geo Widengren 1969, Religionsphänomenologie (Berlijn: W. de Gruyter, 684 blz., DM 38), in Tijdschrift voor Theologie 11, 1: 79

Review of Geo Widengren 1969, Religionsphänomenologie (Berlijn: W. de Gruyter, 684 blz., DM 38), in Tijdschrift voor Theologie 11, 1: 79

Review of M.C. Jedrej & Rosalind Shaw (eds.), Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992; Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa, 7)

Journal PaperReview
Jan G. Platvoet
Numen 40, 3 (1993): 349-350

This review was published in Numen 40, 3 (1993): 349-350. I have made a few minor editorial changes in the text.

Review of Richard Gray 1990, Black Christians and White Missionaries (New Haven/London: Yale University Press), in Numen 40 (1993): 350-352

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
Numen 40, 3 (1993): 350-352

Review of Richard Gray 1990, Black Christians and White Missionaries (New Haven/London: Yale University Press), in Numen 40 (1993): 350352

review of Boyer, P., (ed.), 1993, Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
Numen 43, 1 (1996): 104-106

The cognitive study of religious symbolism aims to develop a naturalist psychology of
religion by applying developments in the cognitive sciences, and more in particular in
cognitive psychology and anthropology ─ which study how humans learn the concepts
they need in daily social life, and acquire proficiency in their use ─, to the study how religious concepts are learned, transmitted and properly used. And vice versa, it aims to
contribute to the development of the young cognitive sciences by the study of religious
symbols as a special domain unconstrained by face-to-face interaction with the postulated
beings addressed and by practical constraints

Review of Twiss & Conser 1992, Experience of the sacred

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
Numen 43, 1 (1996): 106-108

Des­pite its title, and ‘readings’ from Otto, Kristensen, Kitagawa, Eliade, and Hult­krantz, this edited collection of excerpts is a source book in phi­losophical Phe­no­me­no­lo­gy in the tra­dition of Sche­ler and Ricoeur rather than a Phe­no­me­no­logy of Re­li­gion in the tradition of van der Leeuw. Twiss & Conser subsume the latter more his­to­rical tra­di­tion into a more speculative and more prop­er­ly Husserlian pheno­me­no­lo­gy. This book seems to be of interest mainly for schol­ars of liberal Christian per­­su­a­sion in Philosophy of Religion and Phi­lo­sophical The­o­lo­gy.

Recent Studies on Religions in Africa

Journal PaperReview
Jan G. Platvoet
Numen 44, 1 (1997): 100-103 (reviews of J.K. Olupona & S. Nyang (eds.), Religious Plurality in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Mbiti. Berlin, etc.: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993; H.B. Hansen & M. Twaddle (eds.), Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence. London, etc: Currey, etc., 1995; D.M. Anderson & D.H. Johnson (eds.), Revealing Prophets; Prophecy in East African History. London, etc.: Currey, etc., 1995)
Jan G. Platvoet 1977, ‘Recent Studies on Religions in Africa’ [three book reviews], in Numen 44, 1: 100-103
J.K. Olupona & S. Nyang (eds.), Religious Plurality in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Mbiti. Berlin, etc.: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993
H.B. Hansen & M. Twaddle (eds.), Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence. London, etc: Currey, etc., 1995
D.M. Anderson & D.H. Johnson (eds.), Revealing Prophets; Prophecy in East African History. London, etc.: Currey, etc., 1995

Review of Jan van Baal, Boodschap uit de stilte/Mysterie als openbaring (Baarn: Ten Have, 19963), en van A.F. Droogers (red.), Boodschap uit het Mysterie: Reacties op de visie van Jan van Baal (Baarn: Ten Have, 1996)

Journal PaperReview
Jan G. Platvoet
Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 51, 4 (1997): 318
Jan G. Platvoet 1997, Review of Jan van Baal, Boodschap uit de stilte/Mysterie als openbaring (Baarn: Ten Have, 19963), en van A.F. Droogers (red.), Boodschap uit het Mysterie: Reacties op de visie van Jan van Baal (Baarn: Ten Have, 1996), in Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 51, 4 (october 1997) 318

'The Tree That Saw It All’; review of G. ter Haar, Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe (Cardiff: Cardiff Academic Press, 1998)

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
The African Association for the Study of Religions Newsletter 10, 1 (1998): 21-25

 

Jan G. Platvoet 1998, ‘The Tree that Saw It All’, review of Gerrie ter Haar 1998, Halfway to Paradise: African Churches in Europe (Cardiff: Cardic Academic Press), in African Association for the Study of Religions [Newsletter] 10 (November 1998): 21-25

Review of J.S. Krüger, Along Edges: Religion in South Africa: Bushman, Christian, Buddhist (Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1995)

Journal PaperReview
Jan G. Platvoet
Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 51, 1 (1998): 50-51

Jan G. Platvoet 1998, review of  J.S. Krüger, Along Edges: Religion in South Africa: Bushman, Christian, Buddhist (Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1995), in Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 51, 1 (Januari 1998): 50-51; also in The African Association for the Study of Religions [Newsletter] no. 9 (June 1998): 16-18

Review of Gerrie ter Haar (ed.), Strangers and Sojourners: Religious Communities in the Diaspora (Leuven: Peeters, 1998)

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
in Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 53, 4 (1999): 303

Jan G. Platvoet 1999, review of Gerrie ter Haar (ed.), Strangers and Sojourners: Religious Communities in the Diaspora (Leuven: Peeters, 1998), in Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 53, 4: 3030

Review of Gerrie ter Haar 1998, Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe (Cardiff: Cardiff Academic Press)

Journal PaperReview
Jan G. Platvoet
in Numen 47, 1 (2000): 113-115

Jan G. Platvoet 2000, review of Gerrie ter Haar 1998, Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe (Cardiff: Cardiff Academic Press), in Numen: International Journal for the History of Religions 47, 1: 113-115

Review of Thomas A. Idinopulos & Brian C. Wilson (eds.), What is Religion: Origins, Definitions, & Explanations

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
Religion 30, 1 (2000): 97-99

Jan G. Platvoet 2000, review of Thomas A. Idinopulos & Brian C. Wilson (eds.) 1998, What is Religion?: Origins, Definitions, and Explanations. Leiden: Brill, in Religion 30, 1: 97-99

San Tricksters and Trancers; a review

Review
Jan G. Platvoet
in Journal of Religion in Africa 32, 4 (2002): 502-506

review of Mathias Guenther, Tricksters and Trancers: Bushman Religion and Society (Bloomington, etc.: Indiana University Press, 1999), in Journal of Religion in Africa 32, 4 (2002): 502-506