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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820642703321
• 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
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Diese Aufsatzsammlung analysiert ‚Tradition' als Kategorie der historischen und vergleichenden Religionswissenschaft. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, viele Traditionen seien, zumindest teilweise, gesellschaftliche Erfindungen, die oftmals ideologischen Sonderinteressen dienen, wird eine große Vielfalt von Religionen und historischer Epochen behandelt.; This collection of essays analyzes ‛tradition’ as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion. The book questions the common assumption that tradition is simply the “passing down” or imitation of prior practices and discourses. It begins from the premise that many traditions are, at least in part, social fabrications, often deliberately serving particular ideological ends. Individual chapters examine a wide variety of historical periods and religions (Congolese, Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Cree, Esoteric, Hawaiian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, New Religious Movement, and Shinto). Different sections of the book consider tradition's relation to three sets of issues: legitimation and authority; agency and identity; modernity and the West.