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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.
Table des matières
Introduction: Gregory P. Grieve/Richard Weiss
Tradition, Legitimation and Authority
Michel Despland: Tradition; Frederick S. Colby: The Rhetoric of Innovative Tradition in the Festival Commemorating the Night of Muhammad's Ascension; Aaron W. Hughes: The "Golden Age" of Muslim Spain: Religious Identity and the Invention of a Tradition in Modern Jewish Studies; Félix Ulombe Kaputo: Central African Women: Victims between African and Christian Traditions; Michiaki Okuyama: Historicizing Modern Shinto: A New Tradition of Yasukuni Shrine; Titus Hjelm: Tradition as Legitimation in New Religious Movements
Tradition, Agency and Identity
Susanna Morrill: Women and the Book of Mormon: The Creation and Negotiation of a Latter-Day Saint Tradition; Jason A. Carbine: Shwegyin Sasana: Continuity, Rupture, and Traditionalism in a Buddhist Tradition; Richard Weiss: The Autonomy of Tradition: Creating Space for Indian Medicine; Greg Johnson: Incarcerated Tradition: Native Hawaiian Identities and Religious Practice in Prison Contexts; Kocku von Stuckrad: Whose Tradition? Conflicting Ideologies in Medieval and Early Modern Esotericism; Lee Rainey: Confucianism and Tradition; Earle Waugh: Dispatches from Memory: Genealogies of Tradition
Tradition, Modernity, and the West
Gregory P. Grieve: Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Or, How to Compile A Contemporary Hindu Medieval City; Ira Robinson: Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of an American Yiddish Journalist; Michael Hawley: Re-Orienting Tradition: Radhakrishnan's Hinduism; David W. Machacek/Adrienne Fulco: Rights and Values in the American Constitutional Tradition; Frank Usarski: (Re)Making Tradition in an International Tibetan Buddhist Movement: A Lesson from Lama Gangchen and Lama Michel; Steven Engler: Afterward: Tradition's Legacy
A propos de l'auteur
Steven Engler is an Instructor in the Humanities Department at Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada and a Visiting Professor (2005-06) in the Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências da Religião, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil. Gregory Price Grieve is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, U.S.A., where he is a specialist in South Asian and Himalayan religions.
