Varieties of religious invention : founders and their functions in history /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Gray, Patrick, 1970-
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=5009c7963fcf4c96bacf2dd841419ec0
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 210 pages)
ISBN: 9780199359738
9780199359714
Index Number: BL430
CLC: B929
Contents: Finding Judaism's founders / Mark Leuchter -- The Buddha : historicizing myth, mythologizing history / Nathan McGovern -- When the founder is not a creator : Confucius and Confucianism reconsidered / Cai Liang -- What is Daoism and who is its founder? / Gil Raz -- Jesus, Paul, and the birth of Christianity / Patrick Gray -- Muhammad's mission and the Din of Ibrahim according to Ibn Ish'aq / R. Kevin Jaques -- Hinduism and the question of founders / Ma?ns Broo -- Crossing boundaries : when founders of faith appear in other traditions / Mark Muesse.