The “Golden Age” of Muslim Spain: Religious Identity and the Invention of a Tradition in Modern Jewish Studies

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Illuminating the Half-Life of Tradition: Legitimation, Agency, and Counter-Hegemonies 1
4. Tradition, Legitimation, and Authority
5. Tradition 19
6. The Rhetoric of Innovative Tradition in the Festival Commemorating the Night of Muhammad’s Ascension 33
7. The “Golden Age” of Muslim Spain: Religious Identity and the Invention of a Tradition in Modern Jewish Studies 51
8. Central African Women: Victims between African and Christian Traditions 75
9. Historicizing Modern Shinto: A New Tradition of Yasukuni Shrine 93
10. Tradition as Legitimation in New Religious Movements 109
11. Tradition, Agency, and Identity
12. Women and the Book of Mormon: The Creation and Negotiation of a Latter-Day Saint Tradition 127
13. Shwegyin Sāsana: Continuity, Rupture, and Traditionalism in a Buddhist Tradition 145
14. The Autonomy of Tradition: Creating Space for Indian Medicine 175
15. Incarcerated Tradition: Native Hawaiian Identities and Religious Practice in Prison Contexts 195
16. Whose Tradition? Conflicting Ideologies in Medieval and Early Modern Esotericism 211
17. Confucianism and Tradition 227
18. Dispatches from Memory: Genealogies of Tradition 245
19. Tradition, Modernity, and the West
20. Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Or, How to Compile a Contemporary Hindu Medieval City 269
21. Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of an American Yiddish Journalist 283
22. Re-Orienting Tradition: Radhakrishnan’s Hinduism 297
23. Rights and Values in the American Constitutional Tradition 319
24. (Re)Making Tradition in an International Tibetan Buddhist Movement: A Lesson from Lama Gangchen and Lama Michel 345
25. Afterward: Tradition’s Legacy 357
26. List of Participants 379
27. Index of Names 383
28. Index of Topics 389