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; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521864794
Subjects: Religion.; Spiritual life.; Godsdiensten.; Godsdienstige bewegingen.; Traditie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis; value: Scientology, scripture and sacred tradition / Mikael Rothstein; value: '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; value: The invention of sacred tradition: Mormonism / Douglas J. Davies; value: 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; value: 'Heavenly deception'? Sun Myung Moon and 'Divine principle / George D. Chryssides; value: 'Forgery' in the New Testament / Einar Thomassen; value: Three phases of inventing Rosicrucian tradition in the seventeenth century / Susanna Åkerman; value: A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription / Michael Stausberg; value: The peculiar sleep: receiving The Urantia book / Sarah Lewis; value: Ontology of the past and its materialization in Tibetan treasures / Holly Gayley; value: Pseudo-Dionysius: the mediation of sacred traditions / Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington; value: Spurious attribution of the Hebrew Bible / Philip R. Davies; value: Inventing paganisms: making nature / Graham Harvey.