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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. i-iv i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Religious innovation: An introductory essay 1
5. How sane people talk to the gods: A rational theory of revelations 19
6. The demonizing of the demiurge: The innovation of Gnostic myth 73
7. Halakhah in early rabbinic Judaism: Innovation beyond exegesis, tradition before the Oral Torah 109
8. The unbroken treatise: Scripture and argument in early Buddhist scholasticism 143
9. Augustine’s new Trinity: The anxious circle of metaphor 191
10. Gender and the millennium in Ōmoto Kyōdan: The limits of religious innovation 215
11. Innovation as renovation: The “prophet” as an agent of change 241
12. The social contexts of healing: Research on abortion and grieving in Japan 285
13. Buddhist politics and their revolutionary origins in Thailand 319
14. Afterword 351
15. Selected bibliography on religious innovation 357
16. List of contributors 365
17. Subject Index 369
18. 375-376 375