<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> This volume brings together new research perspectives on how religious traditions have been criticized, reconsidered, and modified by exploring the dialectics of continuity and rupture that pervade religious communities. The collected essays consider how forms of criticism are classified, perceived, and constructed in different critical discourses. This investigation sheds new light on the dynamics of religious transformation, past and present.