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The invention of sacred tradition /
"The dictionary definition of tradition refers to beliefs and practices that have been transmitted from generation to generation; however, 'tradition' can rest simply on the claim that certain cultural elements are rooted in the past. Claim and documented historical reality need not o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.