The invention of sacred tradition
Record details
- ISBN: 1281156086
- ISBN: 9781281156082
- ISBN: 0511371071
- ISBN: 9780511371073
- ISBN: 0511370075
- ISBN: 9780511370076
- ISBN: 0511369557
- ISBN: 9780511369551
- ISBN: 0511488459
- ISBN: 9780511488450
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis -- 1. Scientology, scripture, and sacred tradition / Mikael Rothstein -- 2. "He may be lying but what he says is true": the sacred tradition of don Juan as reported by Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist, trickster, guru, allegorist / Charlotte E. Hardman -- 3. The invention of sacred tradition: Mormonism / Douglas J. Davies -- 4. Antisemitism, conspiracy culture, Christianity, and Islam: the history and contemporary religious significance of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion / Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves -- 5. The invention of a counter-tradition: the case of the North American anti-cult movement / David G. Bromley and Douglas E. Cowan -- 6. "Heavenly deception"? Sun Myung Moon and Divine Principle / George D. Chryssides -- 7. "Forgery" in the New Testament / Einar Thomassen -- 8. Three phases of inventing Rosicrucian tradition in the seventeenth century / Susanna Åkerman -- 9. A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription / Michael Stausberg -- 10. The peculiar sleep: receiving The Urantia Book / Sarah Lewis -- 11. Ontology of the past and its materialization in Tibetan treasures / Holly Gayley -- 12. Pseudo-Dionysius: the mediation of sacred traditions / Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington -- 13. Spurious attribution in the Hebrew Bible / Philip R. Davies -- 14. Inventing Paganisms: making nature / Graham Harvey. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record and online resource (Cambridge Books Online, viewed December 4, 2015). |
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Subject: | Religion Spiritual life |
Genre: | Aufsatzsammlung. Aufsatzsammlung. |