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The invention of sacred tradition / edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.

Contributor(s): Lewis, James R | Hammer, Olav
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, England ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521864794 (alk. paper); 0521864798 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion | Spiritual lifeBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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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