The invention of sacred tradition [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction / Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis
- Scientology, scripture and sacred tradition / Mikael Rothstein
- 'He may be lying but what he says is true' : the sacred tradition of Don Juan as reported by Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist, trickster, guru, allegorist / Charlotte E. Hardman
- The invention of sacred tradition : Mormonism / Douglas J. Davies
- Antisemitism, conspiracy culture, Christianity, and Islam : the history and contemporary religious significance of the 'Protocols of the learned elders of Zion' / Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves The invention of a counter-tradition : the case of the North American anti-cult movement / David G. Bromley and Douglas E. Cowan
- 'Heavenly deception' Sun Myung Moon and Divine principle / George D. Chryssides
- 'Forgery' in the New Testament / Einar Thomassen
- Three phases of inventing Rosicrucian tradition in the seventeenth century / Susanna Åkerman
- A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription / Michael Stausberg
- The peculiar sleep : receiving The Urantia book / Sarah Lewis
- Ontology of the past and its materialization in Tibetan treasures / Holly Gayley
- Pseudo-Dionysius : the mediation of sacred traditions / Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington
- Spurious attribution of the Hebrew Bible / Philip R. Davies
- Inventing paganisms: making nature / Graham Harvey.