TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray,Patrick
TI  - Varieties of religious invention: Founders and their functions in history 
SN  - 9780199359721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BL430 .V37 2016
PY  - 2016///]
KW  - Religions
KW  - History
KW  - Religious leaders
N1  - Includes index; 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
ER  -