Varieties of religious invention:  Founders and their functions in history  
edited by Patrick Gray. 
 - New York, USA:  Oxford University Press,  2016 
 - ix, 210p.:  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Finding Judaism's founders / Mark Leuchter -- The Buddha : historicizing myth, mythologizing history / Nathan McGovern -- When the founder is not a creator : Confucius and Confucianism reconsidered / Cai Liang -- What is Daoism and who is its founder? / Gil Raz -- Jesus, Paul, and the birth of Christianity / Patrick Gray -- Muhammad's mission and the Din of Ibrahim according to Ibn Ish'aq / R. Kevin Jaques -- Hinduism and the question of founders / Måns Broo -- Crossing boundaries : when founders of faith appear in other traditions / Mark Muesse. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199359721 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780199359714 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> TB 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015003223 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religions--History.<br/>Religious leaders--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL430  / .V37 2016