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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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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