Book Reviews

Robinson, Howard Perception
Macnamara, John and Reyes, Gonzalo E. (eds) The Logical Foundations of Cognition
Michael, M. and O'Leary-Hawthorne, J. (eds) Philosophy in Mind
McCulloch, Gregory The Mind and its World
Wilson, Robert A. Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds
Harris, Henry (ed.), Identity
Landman, Janet Regret: the Persistence of the Possible
Miller, David Critical Rationalism: a Restatement and Defence
Stevenson, Leslie and Byerly, Henry The Many Faces of Science
Fogelin, Robert J. Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
Sessions, William Lad The Concept of Faith: a Philosophical Investigation
Copp, David Morality, Normativity and Society
Kane, Robert Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World
Gellner, Ernest Encounters with Nationalism
Hadot, Pierre Philosophy as a Way of Life; Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
Grayling, A.C. (ed.), Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject
Bunning, Nicholas and Tsui-James, E.P. (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Judith Torney-Purta, John Schwille, and Jo-Ann Amadeo (eds.), CivicEducation Across Countries: Twenty-Four National Case Studies from the IEA Civil Education Project
Marc Howard Ross and Jay Rothman (eds.), Theory and Practice in Ethic Conflict Management: Theorizing Success and Failure
Jane Flax, The American Dream in Black andWhite: The Clarence Thomas Hearings
Diana C. Mutz, Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes     

Reviews

Books reviewed Clare O’Farrell, Daphne Meadmore, Erica McWilliam and Colin Symes (eds.), Taught Bodies David Willows, Divine Knowledge: A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Christian Education Mark R. Schwehn (ed.), Everyone A Teacher (The Ethics of Everyday Life Richard T. Hughes, How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind Michael Joseph Brown, What They Don’t Tell You: A Survivor’s Guide to Biblical Studies Anthony J. Diekema, Academic Freedom and Christian Scholarship Helen Edwards, Brenda Smith, ; and Graham Webb (eds.), Lecturing: Case Studies, Experience and Practice Robert Benne, Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions Steve Ketteridge, Stephanie Marshall and Heather Fry (eds.), The Effective Academic: A Handbook for Enhanced Academic Practice David Jobling, Tina Pippin and Ronald Schleifer (eds.), The Postmodern Bible Reader     

Science And Faith: New Books with the Same Scepticism

Books reviewed in this article:
Richard A. Lee Jr., Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology
Andrew P. Porter, By the Waters of Naturalism: Theology Perplexed Among the Sciences
W. Mark Richardson, Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, and Kirk Wegter–McNelly (eds), Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists
W. Mark Richardson and Gordy Slack (eds), Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth     

The French Connection: Crea,Mauss, and the Academic Study of Religion in the U.S.A.

Mircea Eliade (ed. in chief), Charles J. Adams, Joseph M. Kitagawa, Martin E. Marty, Richard P. McBrien, Jacob Needleman, Annemarie Schimmel, Robert M. Seltzer, Victor Turner (eds), Lawrence E. Sullivan (associated ed.), and William K. Mahony (assistant ed.), The Encyclopedia of Religion. New York, Macmillan, and London, Collier, 1987, 16 volumes. $1,200     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Lawrence H. Schiffman, James C. VanderKam (eds), Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Robert Elinor, Buddha & Christ: Images of Wholeness
Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke (eds), Ciphers In the Sand: Interpretation of The Woman Taken in Adulter
Thomas Harrison, Divinity and History. The Religion of Herodotus
Bernard Lonergan, Frederick E. Crow and Robert M. Doran (eds), Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
John W. O'Malley, Trent and all That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era
Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
Michael D. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Martin Ott, African Theology in Images
Keith Ward, Religion and Community
Martin Sutherland (ed.), Mission Without Christendom: Exploring the Site
Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
John Webster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
Philip Clayton, The Problem of God in Modern Thought
Andrew Shanks, God and Modernity: A New and Better Way to Do Theology
James P. Mackey, The Critique of Theological Reason
John E. Thiel, Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith
Anne Primavesi, Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science
Michael H. Barnes, Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science
Stanley L. Jaki, The Savior of Science
George Lovell, Consultancy, Ministry and Mission, A Handbook for Practitioners and Work Consultants in Christian Organizations     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Shamita Basu, Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse: Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth‐Century Bengal Lynne Hume, Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders (eds), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa Philip R. Davies (ed.), First Person: Essays in Biblical Autobiography Martin O’Kane (ed.), Borders, Boundaries and the Bible Craig Bartholomew, Colin Greene and Karl Möller (eds), After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation, Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, volume 2 George J. Brooke (ed.), Book List 2002, Society for Old Testament Study V. Phillips Long, David W. Baker and Gordon J. Wenham (eds), Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of ‘Biblical Israel’ Ronald S. Wallace, Hannah's Prayer and its Answer: An Exposition for Bible Study Steven Tuell, I and II Chronicles Paul Murray O.P., A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment John Barton, Joel and Obadiah Magen Broshi, Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls Michael J. Gorman, Cruciformity: Paul's Narrative Spirituality of the Cross Daniel Marguerat, The First Christian Historian: Writing the ‘Acts of the Apostles’ Jan Willem van Henten and Friedrich Avemarie (eds), Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco‐Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity Gwilym Beckerlegge (ed.), From Sacred Text to Internet Alain Blancy and Maurice Jourjon and the Dombes Group, Mary: In the Plan of God and in the Communion of Saints Ronald J. Allen, Preaching is Believing: The Sermon as Theological Reflection Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson (eds), Suffering Religion Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui‐lan (eds), Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse Susan Frank Parsons (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology Hugh Connolly, Sin Steven Croft, Transforming Communities: Re‐imagining the Church for the 21^st Century     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Carsten Peter Thiede, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity Markus Bockmuehl (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jesus Paul Copan and Craig A. Evans (eds), Who Was Jesus? A Jewish–Christian Dialogue David F. Ford and Mike Higton (eds), Jesus Reimund Bieringer, Didier Pollefeyt and Frederique Vandecasteele–Vanneuville (eds), Anti–Judaism and the Fourth Gospel Tania Oldenhage, Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust Steve Moyise (ed.), Studies in the Book of Revelation Stephen R. Haynes, Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery George Herring, What was the Oxford Movement? Peter J. Bowler, Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth–Century Britain Giles Fraser, Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief Theo Hobson, The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), The Last Things: Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Eschatology Oliver Davies, A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition W. Montgomery Watt, A Christian Faith for Today Alex Wright, Why Bother With Theology? Teresa Berger (ed.), Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (ed.), No Other God's Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions Mark Atherton (ed.), Celts and Christians: New Approaches to the Religious Traditions of Britain and Ireland Yossi Klein Halevi, William Morrow, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land Richard K. Fenn, Beyond Idols: The Shape of a Secular Society Robert Durback (ed.), Henri Nouwen: In My Own Words Raymond Plant, Politics, Theology and History Peter Coles (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the New Cosmology Wesley Carr et al (eds), The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
N. Wyatt, Religious Texts from Ugarit: The Words of Ilimilku and his Colleagues
H. Stegemann, The Library of Qumran: On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus
K. Niederwimmer, The Didache, Hermeneia – A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible
Graham Neville, Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism
Marie M. Fortune, Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us
Stephen R. L. Clark, God, Religion and Reality
R. A. Segal, Jung on Mythology: Key Readings
D. E. Cooper & J. A. Palmer (eds), Spirit of the Environment: Religion, Value and Environmental Concern
Michael Uhlmann (ed.), Last Rights: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated
Philip A. Cunningham & Arthur F. Starr (eds), Sharing Shalom: A Process for Local Interfaith Dialogue between Christians and Jews     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Doris A. Graber,Processing Politics: Learning From Television in the Internet Age Victor S. Kaufman,Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies Toward China Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam (eds.),Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Judith Torney‐Purta, Rainer Lehmann, Hans Oswald, and Wolfram Schultz,Citizenship and Education in Twenty‐Eight Countries: Civic Knowledge and Engagement at Age Fourteen Mark E. Warren,Democracy and Trust     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Perry Schmidt–Leukel (ed.), Buddhist Perceptions of Jesus: Papers of the Third Conference of the European Network of Buddhist–Christian Studies (St Ottilien 1999) David Jobling, Tina Pippin, Ronald Schleifer (eds), The Postmodern Bible Reader Mark D. Chapman, Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology: Religion and Cultural Synthesis in Wilhelmine Germany Stephen J. Hunt, Religion in Western Society James J. Buckley and David S. Yeago (eds), Knowing the Triune God: The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Church Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass (eds), Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life Dan R. Stiver, Theology After Ricoeur: New Directions in Hermeneutical Theology T. J. Gorringe, The Education of Desire: Towards a Theology of the Senses Anthony Harvey, By What Authority? George Guiver (ed.), Priests in a People‘s Church Sarah Coakley, Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender Robert McKim, Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity Kenneth Leech, Through our Long Exile: Contextual Theology and the Urban Experience David N. Power, ‘The Word of the Lord’: Liturgy’s Use of Scripture Owen Hardwicke, Living Beyond Conformity: An Experience of Ministry and Priesthood     

BOOK REVIEWS

Irene Bloom, J. Paul Martin, and Wayne L. Proudfoot (eds.), Religious Diversity and Human Rights
Scott D. Sagan, The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Michael Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter, What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters
Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen, Culture of Hoor: The Psychology of Violence in the South
Ted Benton (ed.), The Greening of Marxism
Neil J. Kressel, Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide & Terror
Kristen Renwick Monroe, The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity
Stanley A. Renshon, The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates
Ole R. Holsti, Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy
Bernice Lott and Diane Maluso (eds.), The Social Psychology of Interpersonal Discrimination
Milton Lodge and Kathleen M. McGraw (eds.), Political Judgment: Structure and Process
V. M. Bekhterev, Collective Reflexoloby, Part I
James T. Tedeschi and Richard B. Felson, Violence, Aggression, and Coercive Actions     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Rose McDermott, Risk-Taking in International Politics Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger, Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions Meredith W. Watts, Xenophobia in United Germany: Generations, Modernization, and Ideology Tom R. Tyler, Robert J. Boeckman, Heather J. Smith, and Yuen J. Huo, Social Justice in a Diverse Society Fritz Redlich, Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet Alexander L. George and Juliette L. George (eds.), Presidential Personality and Performance Norman N. Nie, Jane Junn, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: John Barton (ed.), The Biblical World Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Bernhard W. Anderson, Contours of Old Testament Theology James Barr, The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), Reclaiming the Bible for the Church Nancy L. deClaissè‐Walford, Reading from th eBeginning: The Shaping of the Hebrew Psalter Birger Gerhardsson, The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition Ben Witherington III, New Testament History: A Narrative Account Neil Richardson, God in the New Testament John S. Kloppenborg Verbin, Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of John Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer, Paul Between Damascus and Antioch. The Unknown Years F. Gerald Downing, Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches: Cynics and Christian Origins II Anthony C. Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians Kieran J. O'Mahony, Pauline Persuasion: A Sounding in 2 Corinthians 8‐9 C. K. Barrett, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volume I: Acts XV–XXVII April D. DeConick, Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature Manlio Simonetti (ed.), Ippolito. Contro Noeto Catherine Brown Tkacz, The Key to the Brescia Casket: Typology and the Early Christian Imagination Serge Lancel, St Augustine Patricia Cox Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion Thomas Head (ed.), Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology Allan Greer (ed.), The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth‐Century North America Stephen R. Holmes, God of Glory and God of Grace: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards Stephen Prickett, Narrative, Religion and Science. Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700–1999 Linda Woodhead (ed.), Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth‐Century Contexts Florent Gaboriau, The Conversion of Edith Stein Jeffrey S. Siker, Scripture and Ethics. Twentieth‐Century Portraits Richerd B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament. Community, Cross, New Creation John Kavanaugh, Who Counts as Persons: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing John Keown, Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument against Legalisation Stephen J. Pope and Charles Hefling (eds.), Sic et Non: Encountering ‘Dominus Iesus’ J'annine Jobling and Ian Markham (eds.), Theological Liberalism, Creative and Critical Hans Küng, Women in Christianity Lynne Broadbent and Alan Brown (eds.), Issues in Religious Education Jeremy Waldron, God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought Giles Fraser, Redeeming Nietzsche Alexander Garcia Düttman, The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer Michael Fuller, Making Sense of MacIntyre     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Kirsch, Thomas B., The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Perera, Sylvia Brinton, Queen Maeve and Her Lovers.
Fonagy, Peter; Cooper, Arnold, Wallerstein, M. & Robert, S., (eds.) Psychoanalysis on the Move. The work of Joseph Sandler
Green, Andre, The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse,
Johnson, S. & Ruszcynski, S., (eds.) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Independent Tradition
Vaidyanathan, T. G. & Kripal, J. J., (eds.) Vishnu on Freud's Desk – A Reader in Psychoanalysis and Hinduism.     

Book Reviews

Cynthia A. Freeland and Thomas J. Warburg (eds) Philosophy and Film Philippe Van Parijs, Real Freedom for All: What (if Anything) Can Justify Capitalism? Robert J. Hogelin, Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification Robert Merrihew Adams, Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Allen Richard and Malcolm Turvey (eds.), Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
Brady Emily and Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley
Rob Van Gerwen (ed.), Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting: Art as Expression and Representation
Keith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox & Power in Art History
James J. Sheehan, Museums in the German Art World from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
Theodore Gracyk, I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity
Renée Cox Lorraine, Music, Tendencies, and Inhibitions: Reflections on a Theory of Leonard Meyer
Naomi Cumming, The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification
Krystyna Wilkoszewska (ed.), Aesthetics of the Four Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed
Philip J. Ivanhoe, Confucian Moral Self Cultivation
T. C. Kline III and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi
Robert C. Neville, Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late–Modern World
Kuang–ming Wu, On Metaphoring: A Cultural Hermeneutic
Chenyang Li (ed.), The Sage and the Second Sex     

REVIEW

Book Reveiwed in this article:
Tamara Horowitz & Gerald J. Massey (eds.), Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Nancy Nason-Clark and Mary Jo Neitz (eds.), Feminist Narratives and the Sociology of Religion
John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis, Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-welfare Era
Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans (eds.), The Quiet Hand of God: Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism
James B. Allen, Ronald W. Walker, and David J. Whittaker, with Armand L. Mauss and Dynette Ivie Reynolds, Studies in Mormon History, 1830–1997: An Indexed Bibliography with a Topical Guide to Published Social Science Literature on the Mormons
Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen, with a contribution by Armand L. Mauss, Mormon History