Varieties of religious invention founders and their functions in history
What does it mean to call someone the "founder" of a religion? How have debates about figures such as Jesus, Muhammad, and Confucius served as proxies for broader cultural, theological, or political questions?
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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| Call Number : | BL 430 .V37 2016 |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Finding Judaism's Founders -- The Buddha: Historicizing Myth, Mythologizing History -- When the Founder is Not a Creator: Confucius and Confucianism Reconsidered -- What is Daoism and Who is Its Founder? -- Jesus, Paul, and the Birth of Christianity -- Muhammad's Mission and the Din of Ibrahim according to Ibn Ishaq -- Hinduism and the Question of Founders -- Crossing Boundaries: When Founders of Faith Appear in Other Traditions | |
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