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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463462203321

Titolo

Historicizing "tradition" in the study of religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Steven Engler and Gregory P. Grieve

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2005

ISBN

3-11-090140-4

Descrizione fisica

vii, 395 p

Collana

Religion and society ; ; v. 43

Classificazione

BG 8540

Altri autori (Persone)

EnglerSteven

GrieveGregory P <1964-> (Gregory Price)

Disciplina

206

Soggetti

Authority - Religious aspects

Tradition (Theology)

Religious invention

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illuminating the Half-Life of Tradition: Legitimation, Agency, and Counter-Hegemonies / Grieve, Gregory P. / Weiss, Richard -- Tradition, Legitimation, and Authority -- Tradition / Despland, Michel -- The Rhetoric of Innovative Tradition in the Festival Commemorating the Night of Muhammad's Ascension / Colby, Frederick S. -- The "Golden Age" of Muslim Spain: Religious Identity and the Invention of a Tradition in Modern Jewish Studies / Hughes, Aaron W. -- Central African Women: Victims between African and Christian Traditions / Kaputu, Félix Ulombe -- Historicizing Modern Shinto: A New Tradition of Yasukuni Shrine / Okuyama, Michiaki -- Tradition as Legitimation in New Religious Movements / Hjelm, Titus -- Tradition, Agency, and Identity -- Women and the Book of Mormon: The Creation and Negotiation of a Latter-Day Saint Tradition / Morrill, Susanna -- Shwegyin Sāsana: Continuity, Rupture, and Traditionalism in a Buddhist Tradition / Carbine, Jason A. -- The Autonomy of Tradition: Creating Space for Indian Medicine / Weiss, Richard -- Incarcerated Tradition: Native Hawaiian Identities and Religious Practice in Prison Contexts / Johnson, Greg -- Whose Tradition? Conflicting Ideologies in Medieval and Early Modern Esotericism / von Stuckrad,



Kocku -- Confucianism and Tradition / Rainey, Lee -- Dispatches from Memory: Genealogies of Tradition / Waugh, Earle H. -- Tradition, Modernity, and the West -- Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Or, How to Compile a Contemporary Hindu Medieval City / Grieve, Gregory P. -- Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of an American Yiddish Journalist / Robinson, Ira -- Re-Orienting Tradition: Radhakrishnan's Hinduism / Hawley, Michael -- Rights and Values in the American Constitutional Tradition / Machacek, David W. / Fulco, Adrienne -- (Re)Making Tradition in an International Tibetan Buddhist Movement: A Lesson from Lama Gangchen and Lama Michel / Usarski, Frank -- Afterward: Tradition's Legacy / Engler, Steven -- List of Participants -- Index of Names -- Index of Topics