TY - BOOK ID - 5430158 TI - The invention of sacred tradition AU - Lewis, James R. AU - Hammer, Olav PY - 2007 SN - 9780521864794 0521864798 9780511488450 9780521175319 0511488459 9780511369551 0511369557 9780511370076 0511370075 9780511371073 0511371071 9781281156082 1281156086 0521175313 1107178509 0511369050 9786611156084 0511370601 9781107178502 9780511369056 6611156089 9780511370601 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Religion. KW - Spiritual life. KW - Religion KW - Vie spirituelle KW - 291 KW - Life, Spiritual KW - Religious life KW - Spirituality KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - God KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend KW - Spiritual life KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Scientology KW - scripture KW - sacred tradition KW - Carlos Castaneda KW - Mormonism KW - antisemitism KW - conspiracy culture KW - Christianity KW - Islam KW - counter-tradition KW - the North American anti-cult movement KW - Sun Myung Moon KW - Divine Principle KW - the New Testament KW - Rosicrucian tradition KW - Zoroaster KW - the Urantia Book KW - pseudo-Dionysius KW - the Hebrew Bible KW - Paganisms UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5430158 AB - The dictionary definition of tradition refers to beliefs and practices that have been transmitted from generation to generation, however, 'tradition' can rest simply on the claim that certain cultural elements are rooted in the past. Claim and documented historical reality need not overlap. In the domain of religion, historically verifiable traditions coexist with recent innovations whose origins are spuriously projected back into time. This book examines the phenomenon of 'invented traditions' in religions ranging in time from Zoroastrianism to Scientology, and geographically from Tibet to North America and Europe. The various contributions, together with an introduction that surveys the field, use individual case studies to address questions such as the rationale for creating historical tradition for one's doctrines and rituals; the mechanisms by which hitherto unknown texts can enter an existing corpus; and issues of acceptance and scepticism in the reception of dubious texts. ER -