Varieties of Religious Invention

Founders and Their Functions in History
Herausgeber: Gray, Patrick

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Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199359721
• ISBN-10: 0199359725
• Artikelnr.: 42792715

Autorenporträt

Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has published five books on the Bible, the history of biblical interpretation, and Hellenistic philosophy, including Opening Paul's Letters: A Reader's Guide to Genre and Interpretation.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Patrick Gray
* Chapter 1) Finding Judaism's Founders
* Mark Leuchter
* Chapter 2) The Buddha: Historicizing Myth, Mythologizing History
* Nathan McGovern
* Chapter 3) When the Founder is Not a Creator: Confucius and
Confucianism Reconsidered
* Cai Liang
* Chapter 4) What is Daoism and Who is Its Founder?
* Gil Raz
* Chapter 5) Jesus, Paul, and the Birth of Christianity
* Patrick Gray
* Chapter 6) Muhammad's Mission and the Din of Ibrahim according to Ibn
Ishaq
* R. Kevin Jaques
* Chapter 7) Hinduism and the Question of Founders
* Måns Broo
* Chapter 8) Crossing Boundaries: When Founders of Faith Appear in
Other Traditions
* Mark Muesse
* Index