Historicizing "tradition" in the study of religion / edited by Steven Engler and Gregory P. Grieve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engler, Steven.

Grieve, Gregory P. (Gregory Price), 1964-

Series:

Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; 43.

Religion and society ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority--Religious aspects.

Authority.

Tradition (Theology).

Religious invention.

Physical Description:

vii, 395 p.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Diese Aufsatzsammlung analysiert ‚Tradition' als Kategorie der historischen und vergleichenden Religionswissenschaft. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, viele Traditionen seien, zumindest teilweise, gesellschaftliche Erfindungen, die oftmals ideologischen Sonderinteressen dienen, wird eine große Vielfalt von Religionen und historischer Epochen behandelt.

This collection of essays analyzes ‛tradition’ as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion. The book questions the common assumption that tradition is simply the “passing down” or imitation of prior practices and discourses. It begins from the premise that many traditions are, at least in part, social fabrications, often deliberately serving particular ideological ends. Individual chapters examine a wide variety of historical periods and religions (Congolese, Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Cree, Esoteric, Hawaiian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, New Religious Movement, and Shinto). Different sections of the book consider tradition's relation to three sets of issues: legitimation and authority; agency and identity; modernity and the West.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illuminating the Half-Life of Tradition: Legitimation, Agency, and Counter-Hegemonies / Grieve, Gregory P. / Weiss, Richard

Tradition, Legitimation, and Authority

Tradition / Despland, Michel

The Rhetoric of Innovative Tradition in the Festival Commemorating the Night of Muhammad's Ascension / Colby, Frederick S.

The "Golden Age" of Muslim Spain: Religious Identity and the Invention of a Tradition in Modern Jewish Studies / Hughes, Aaron W.

Central African Women: Victims between African and Christian Traditions / Kaputu, Félix Ulombe

Historicizing Modern Shinto: A New Tradition of Yasukuni Shrine / Okuyama, Michiaki

Tradition as Legitimation in New Religious Movements / Hjelm, Titus

Tradition, Agency, and Identity

Women and the Book of Mormon: The Creation and Negotiation of a Latter-Day Saint Tradition / Morrill, Susanna

Shwegyin Sāsana: Continuity, Rupture, and Traditionalism in a Buddhist Tradition / Carbine, Jason A.

The Autonomy of Tradition: Creating Space for Indian Medicine / Weiss, Richard

Incarcerated Tradition: Native Hawaiian Identities and Religious Practice in Prison Contexts / Johnson, Greg

Whose Tradition? Conflicting Ideologies in Medieval and Early Modern Esotericism / von Stuckrad, Kocku

Confucianism and Tradition / Rainey, Lee

Dispatches from Memory: Genealogies of Tradition / Waugh, Earle H.

Tradition, Modernity, and the West

Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Or, How to Compile a Contemporary Hindu Medieval City / Grieve, Gregory P.

Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of an American Yiddish Journalist / Robinson, Ira

Re-Orienting Tradition: Radhakrishnan's Hinduism / Hawley, Michael

Rights and Values in the American Constitutional Tradition / Machacek, David W. / Fulco, Adrienne

(Re)Making Tradition in an International Tibetan Buddhist Movement: A Lesson from Lama Gangchen and Lama Michel / Usarski, Frank

Afterward: Tradition's Legacy / Engler, Steven

List of Participants

Index of Names

Index of Topics

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110901405

3110901404

OCLC:

840442241