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Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion (Religion and Society, 43, Band 43) - Hardcover

Buch 38 von 81: Religion and Society
 
9783110188752: Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion (Religion and Society, 43, Band 43)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110188759 ISBN 13: 9783110188752
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven Engler is an Instructor in the Humanities Department at Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada and a Visiting Professor (2005-2006) in the Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências da Religião, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.

Gregory Price Grieve is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, U.S.A., where he is a specialist in South Asian and Himalayan religions.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110188759
ISBN 13 
9783110188752
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
401
Herausgeber
Engler Steven, Grieve Gregory Price
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