vii, 395 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Tradition / Michel Despland -- The rhetoric of innovative tradition in the festival commemorating the night of Muhammad's ascension / Frederick S. Colby -- The 'golden age' of Muslim Spain : religious identity and the invention of a tradition in modern Jewish studies / Aaron W. Hughes -- Central African women : victims between African and Christian traditions / Felix Ulombe Kaputo -- Historicizing modern Shinto : a new tradition of Yasukuni Shrine / Michiaki Okuyama -- Tradition as legitimation in new religious movements / Titus Hjelm -- Women and the Book of Mormon : the creation and negotiation of a Latter-day Saint tradition / Susanna Morrill -- Shwegyin sàsana : continuity, rupture, and traditionalism in a Buddhist tradition / Jason A. Carbine -- The autonomy of tradition : creating space for Indian medicine / Richard Weiss -- Incarcerated tradition : native Hawaiian identities and religious practice in prison contexts / Greg Johnson -- Whose tradition? : conflicting ideologies in medieval and early modern esotericism / Kocku von Stuckrad -- Confucianism and tradition / Lee Rainey -- Dispatches from memory : genealogies of tradition / Earle Waugh -- Histories of tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal: or how to compile a contemporary Hindu medieval city / Gregory Grieve -- Hasid and Maskil : the Hasidic tales of an American Yiddish journalist / Ira Robinson -- Re-orienting tradition : Radhakrishnan's Hinduism / Michael Hawley -- Rights and values in the American constitutional tradition / David W. Machacek and Adrienne Fulco -- Re(making) tradition in an international Tibetan Buddhist movement : a lesson from Lama Gangchen and Lama Michel / Frank Usarski -- Afterward : tradition's legacy

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