Innovation in Religious Traditions

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Religious innovation: An introductory essay	p. 1
How sane people talk to the gods: A rational theory of revelations	p. 19
The human voice in divine revelation: The problem of authority in Biblical law	p. 35
The demonizing of the demiurge: The innovation of Gnostic myth	p. 73
Halakhah in early rabbinic Judaism: Innovation beyond exegesis, tradition before Oral Torah	p. 109
The unbroken treatise: Scripture and argument in early Buddhist scholasticism	p. 143
Augustine's new Trinity: The anxious circle of metaphor	p. 191
Gender and the millennium in Omoto Kyodan: The limits of religious innovation	p. 215
Innovation as renovation: The "prophet" as an agent of change	p. 241
The social contexts of healing: Research on abortion and grieving in Japan	p. 285
Buddhist politics and their revolutionary origins in Thailand	p. 319
Afterword	p. 351
Selected bibliography on religious innovation	p. 357
List of contributors	p. 365
Index	p. 369
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