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The invention of sacred tradition / edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. Description: xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521864794; 9780521175319Subject(s): Religion | Spiritual lifeDDC classification: 208 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Available at Centre for Social Science Research | 208 I621 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Available | 023121 |
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.