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Varieties of Religious Invention: Founders and Their Functions in History

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Varieties of Religious Invention: Founders and Their Functions in History - Gray, Patrick (Editor)
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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? The contributors to Varieties of Religious Invention survey the landscape shaped by these questions within the world's major religious traditions.

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Varieties of Religious Invention: Founders and Their Functions in History 2015, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199359721

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Varieties of Religious Invention: Founders and Their Functions in History 2015, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199359714

Hardcover