Format:
Online Ressource (265 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0585067104
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9780585067100
Content:
"This book presents the first systematic and cross-cultural exploration of ideas of heresy, as well as orthodoxy, in a group of major religious traditions, including Neo-Confucianism, Sunni Islam, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity. It shows how authorities in all four of these traditions used common strategies to distinguish orthodox truth from heretical error. These same strategies often appear in modern ideological polemics and studies of deviance as well as in traditional religious controversies. The party that most effectively uses these strategies often gains a decisive advantage in the struggle among competing claimants to orthodoxy."--BOOK JACKET
Content:
1.Preliminary Overview of Heresy and Heresiography7 --2.The Making of Orthodoxies39 --3.The Construction of Orthodoxy85 --4.The Construction of Heresy119 --Epilogue: The Providentiality of Heresy171.
Note:
Several of these papers were presented at several universities. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Several of these papers were presented at several universities
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1.Preliminary Overview of Heresy and Heresiography72.The Making of Orthodoxies393.The Construction of Orthodoxy854.The Construction of Heresy119Epilogue: The Providentiality of Heresy171.
Additional Edition:
0791437590
Additional Edition:
0791437604
Additional Edition:
Print version Construction of orthodoxy and heresy
Language:
English
Keywords:
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