Varieties of religious invention: Founders and their functions in history - Gray, Patrick, 1970- (New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2016)
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.
Includes index.
Keywords: Religions -- History; Religious leaders -- History