Prof. Rik Pinxten
Univ.Ghent, Belgium
°1947, Hendrik Pinxten studied philosophy and ethical studies at the R.U.Gent,
Belgium. PhD (1975) and Special PhD (1980) from U.Gent. Guest professor at Northwestern Univ., Chicago, and at Syracuse Univ., NY, Univ. Vienna, Austria. Field work: Navajo Indians, USA; Turkish immigrants, Euope.
Researcher at the N.S.F. of Belgium 1972-1983. Ordinary professor at Ghent Univ. (1983-2012)., in Cultural anthropology and the Study of religion.
Research on cognition, religion and culture , in a comparative perspective.
Founding editor of ‘Cultural Dynamics’, sage , London, 1988-.
Published some 15 books (e.g., Anthropology of Space, UPennPress, 1983; Culture and Politics, Berghahn, Oxford, 2004; The Creation of God, Lang, Frankfurt, 2010), Multimathemacy. (Springer, NY, 2016), and some 150 articles in journals in different languages.