Historicizing "tradition" in the study of religion
By: edited by Steven Engler, Gregory P. Grieve.
Contributors: Engler, Steven.; Grieve, Gregory P. 1964-
Series: Religion and society ;; v. 43; Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;; 43.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9783110188752
Subjects: Authority -- Religious aspects.; Tradition (Theology); Religious invention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Tradition / Michel Despland; title: The rhetoric of innovative tradition in the festival commemorating the night of Muhammad's ascension / Frederick S. Colby; title: The 'golden age' of Muslim Spain : religious identity and the invention of a tradition in modern Jewish studies / Aaron W. Hughes; title: Central African women : victims between African and Christian traditions / Felix Ulombe Kaputo; title: Historicizing modern Shinto / Michiaki Okuyama; title: Tradition as legitimation in new religious movements / Titus Hjelm; title: Women and the Book of Mormon : the creation and negotiation of a Latter-day Saint tradition / Susanna Morrill; title: Shwegyin sàsana : continuity, rupture, and traditionalism in a Buddhist tradition / Jason A. Carbine; title: The autonomy of tradition : creating space for Indian medicine / Richard Weiss; title: Incarcerated tradition : native Hawaiian identities and religious practice in prison contexts / Greg Johnson; title: Whose tradition? : conflicting ideologies in medieval and early modern esotericism / Kocku von Stuckrad; title: Confucianism and tradition / Lee Rainey; title: Dispatches from memory : genealogies of tradition / Earle Waugh; title: Histories of tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: or how to compile a contemporary Hindu medieval city / Gregory Grieve; title: Hasid and Maskil : the Hasidic tales of an American Yiddish journalist / Ira Robinson; title: Re-orienting tradition : Radhakrishnan's Hinduism / Michael Hawley; title: Rights and values in the American constitutional tradition / David W. Machacek and Adrienne Fulco; title: (Re)making tradition in an international Tibetan Buddhist movement : a lesson from Lama Gangchen and Lama Michel / Frank Usarski; title: Afterward : tradition's legacy.