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The invention of sacred tradition [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780511371073 (electronic bk.)
  • 0511371071 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 204.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BL624 .I48 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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