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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 31Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1992Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110127805
  • 9783110876352
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291 20
LOC classification:
  • BL21 .I466 1992eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
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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

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Issued also in print.

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In English.

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