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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Baum, Robert M.,; Cox, Collett,; Hardacre, Helen,; Jaffee, Martin S.,; Keyes, Charles F.,; Smith, Bardwell,; Stark, Rodney,; Waldman, Marilyn Robinson,; Webb, Eugene,; Williams, Michael A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cox, Collett,; Jaffee, Martin,; Williams, Michael A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1992
• Rok vydání: 2011
• Vydání: Reprint 2011
• Jazyk: English
• Edice: Religion and Society , 31
• Fyzický popis: 1 online resource (373 p.)

Table of Contents

• 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