Innovation in Religions Traditions

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The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

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Summary of the Contents:
Religious innovation: An introductory essay
R. Stark:
How sane people talk to the gods: A rational theory of revelations
B. M. Levinson:
The human voice in divine revelation: The problem of authority
in Biblical law
M. A. Williams:
The demonizing of the demiurge: The innovation of Gnostic myth
M. D. Jaffee:
Halakkah in early rabbinic Judaism: Innovation beyond exegesis,
tradition before Oral Torah
C. Cox:
The unbroken treatise: Scripture and argument in early
Buddhist scholasticism
E. Webb:
Augustine's new Trinity: The anxious circle of metaphor
H. Hardcare:
Gender and the millenium in Omo Kyodan: The limits of
religious innovation
M. Robinson Waldman - R. M. Baum:
Innovation as renovation: The 'prophet' as an agent of change
B. Smith: The social contexts of healing: Research on abortion an grieving
in Japan
C. F. Keyes:
Buddhist politica and their revolutionary origins in Thailand
Selected bibliography on religious innovation