Innovation in Religions Traditions : : Essays in the Interpretation of Religions Change / / ed. by Collett Cox, Martin Jaffee, Michael A. Williams.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©1992
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Religion and Society , 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (373 p.)
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Other title:i-iv --
Acknowledgements --
Contents --
Religious innovation: An introductory essay --
How sane people talk to the gods: A rational theory of revelations --
The demonizing of the demiurge: The innovation of Gnostic myth --
Halakhah in early rabbinic Judaism: Innovation beyond exegesis, tradition before the Oral Torah --
The unbroken treatise: Scripture and argument in early Buddhist scholasticism --
Augustine’s new Trinity: The anxious circle of metaphor --
Gender and the millennium in Ōmoto Kyōdan: The limits of religious innovation --
Innovation as renovation: The “prophet” as an agent of change --
The social contexts of healing: Research on abortion and grieving in Japan --
Buddhist politics and their revolutionary origins in Thailand --
Afterword --
Selected bibliography on religious innovation --
List of contributors --
Subject Index --
375-376
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110876352
9783110638110
ISSN:1437-5370 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110876352
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Collett Cox, Martin Jaffee, Michael A. Williams.