The invention of sacred tradition
By: edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.
Contributors: Lewis, James R.; Hammer, Olav.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521864794
Subjects: Religion; Spiritual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis; title: Scientology, scripture and sacred tradition / Mikael Rothstein; title: '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; title: The invention of sacred tradition : Mormonism / Douglas J. Davies; title: 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 The invention of a counter-tradition : the case of the North American anti-cult movement / David G. Bromley and Douglas E. Cowan; title: 'Heavenly deception' Sun Myung Moon and Divine principle / George D. Chryssides; title: 'Forgery' in the New Testament / Einar Thomassen; title: Three phases of inventing Rosicrucian tradition in the seventeenth century /  Susanna Åkerman; title: A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription / Michael Stausberg; title: The peculiar sleep : receiving The Urantia book / Sarah Lewis; title: Ontology of the past and its materialization in Tibetan treasures / Holly Gayley; title: Pseudo-Dionysius : the mediation of sacred traditions / Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington; title: Spurious attribution of the Hebrew Bible / Philip R. Davies; title: Inventing paganisms: making nature / Graham Harvey.