Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
Konrad Schaefer, Psalms
L. Daniel Hawk, Joshua
Hans Urs von Balthasar (ed.), Robert J. Daly, S.J. (trans.), Origen: Spirit and Fire, A Thematic Anthology of His Writings
Nicholas de Lange (ed.), Ignaz Maybaum: A Reader
James M. Byrne, God: Thoughts in an Age of Uncertainty
David R. Law Inspiration
Stanley J. Grenz and John R. Franke, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context
George Pattison, A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion
Rufus Black, Christian Moral Realism – Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel
Peter C. Hodgson, Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot
Theresa M. DiPasquale, Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne
Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy: Caring for Ecology, Humanity and Religion
David Martin, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish
Douglas V. Porpora, Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life     

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     

Short Notices

Jerrold E. Levy, In the Beginning: The Navajo Genesis Luise Schottroff, Silvia Schroer & Marie-Theres Wacker, Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Woman's Perspective Ben Witherington, Grace in Galatia: A Commentary on St Paul's Letter to the Galatians Donald Armstrong (ed.), The Truth about Jesus R. N. Longenecker (ed.), Life in the Face of Death: The Resurrection Message of the New Testament A. Friesen, Erasmus, the Anabaptists and the Great Commission Alan P. F. Sell (ed.), Mill and Religion: Contemporary Responses to Mill's, ‘Three Essays on Religion’ G. W. F. Hegel (ed. Peter C. Hodgson), Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Volume III: The Consummate Religion John Webster, Barth's Moral Theology: Human Action in Barth's Thought Anne Hunt, What are they saying about the Trinity? David A. S. Fergusson, The Cosmos and the Creator: An Introduction to the Theology of Creation C. David Grant, Thinking Through Our Faith: Theology for 21st Century Christians Walter Wink, The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium Michael Nazir-Ali, Citizens and Exiles: Christian Faith in a Plural World Robert J. Schreiter, The Ministry of Reconciliation: Spirituality and Strategies John Gladwin, Love and Liberty: Faith and Unity in a Postmodern Age Eric O. Springsted (ed.), The Spirituality and Theology: Essays in Honour of Diogenes Allen Kenneth Leech, Drugs and Pastoral Care S. E. Lammers and A. Verhey (eds), On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics Anthony Elliot (ed.), Freud 2000     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Michele Dillon (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
James A. Beckford, Social Theory and Religion
Christian Smith, Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture
John Schmalzbauer, People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education
Omar M. McRoberts, Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood
Kenneth J. Guest, God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
Tony Carnes and Anna Karpathakis (eds.), New York Glory: Religions in the City
Richard A. Schoenherr and David Yamane, Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church
Susan A. Eisenhandler, Keeping the Faith in Late Life
Roger W. Stump, Boundaries of Faith: Geographical Perspectives on Religious Fundamentalism     

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     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Samuel E. Balentine, The Torah's Vision of Worship Richard J. Clifford, Proverbs: a Commentary William Horbury (ed.), Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben‐Yehuda Walter E. Pilgrim, Uneasy Neighbors: Church and State in the New Testament K. Parry, D. J. Melling, D. Brady, S. H. Griffith, J. F. Healey (eds), The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity William J. Short, Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition Wilfred McGreal O Carm, At the Fountain of Elijah: The Carmelite Tradition Thomas E. Corts (ed.), Henry Drummond: A Perpetual Benediction Elaine Kaye, For the Work of Ministry: A History of the Northern College and its Predecessors Chris Rowland and John Vincent (eds), Liberation Spirituality Steve Bruce, Sociology: A Very Short Introduction A. E. Harvey, Demanding Peace: Christian Responses to War and Violence K. Gnanakan, God's World: A Theology of the Environment Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature Timothy F. Sedgwick, The Christian Moral Life: Practices of Piety Giles leGood (ed.), Chaplaincy: The Church's Sector Ministry Joel James Shuman, The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine and the Church Dan Cohn‐Sherbok, Understanding the Holocaust. An Introduction Ekkehard Schuster and Reinhold Boschert‐Kimmig, Hope against Hope: Johann Baptist Metz and Elie Wiesel Speak Out on the Holocaust     

Bibliography of Walter Burkert

Geoffrey Hartman (ed.), Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Haneda Nobuo (translator) December Fan. The Buddhist Essays of Manshi Kiyozawa. Kyoto, Higashi Honganji Publication Department, 1984, 98 pp.     

The Paradox of Wuwei? Yes (and No)

This essay considers P. J. Ivanhoe's critical challenge to Slingerland's analysis of wuwei(‘effortless action’). While I agree with Ivanhoe that we should do more work to embody and understand the concept of wuwei, I will defend Slingerland's notion that wuwei involves paradox—particularly in the cases of Zhuangi and Laozi. The present essay is not a defense of the specifics of Slingerland's analysis. Nonetheless, this essay focuses on defending the notion of paradox. Ivanhoe offers an alternative view of wuwei, one that sees the paradox as a riddle. I argue that this kind of formulation would frame the problem of wuwei in an unhelpful manner. I offer several novel ways of overcoming, or at least qualifying, the experience of paradox that seems to be at play in nondoing.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: J. M. Hull, In the Beginning There was Darkness: A Blind Person's Conversation with the Bible J. J. Collins and G. E. Sterling (eds.), Hellenism in the Land of Israel Margaret Barker, The Revelation of Jesus Christ Richard A. Horsley, Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew. Volume III: Companions and Competitors Gregory W. Dawes (ed.), The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History Gregory W. Dawes (ed.), The Historical Jesus Question: The Challenge of History to Religious Authority Philip Jenkins, Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost its Way Robert Pazmiño, God Our Teacher Colin E. Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine Miroslav Volf and Dorothy Bass (eds.), Practicing Theology P.G. Walsh (ed., trans.), Augustine: ‘De bono coniugali’ and ‘De sancta virginitate’ Hilarion Alfeyev, St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition Steven Fanning, Mystics of the Christian Tradition R. V. Young, Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth‐Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan Victor Nuovo (ed.), John Locke and Christianity Paul S. Fiddes, Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), Church Unity and the Papal Office: An Ecumenical Dialogue on John Paul II's Encyclical Ut Unum Sint Patrick Riley, Civilising Sex: On Chastity and the Common Good J. Wijngaards, The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church: Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition Elisabeth Behr‐Sigel and Kallistos Ware, The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church Robin Darling Young, In Procession Before the World: Martyrdom as Public Liturgy in Early Christianity Stelios Ramfos, Like a Pelican in the Wilderness Ralph W. Mathisen, Ruricius of Limoges and Friends: A Collection of Letters from Visigothic Gaul Michael Whitby, The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus Maria Boulding, St Augustine: The Confessions Glenn Peers, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium Stewart Gordon (ed.), Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and ‘Pagans’ in Medieval Hungary, c.1000‐c.1300 Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch (eds.), The Second Crusade: Scope and Consequences Kantik Ghosh, The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts Rita Copeland, Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning Nancy Bradley Warren, Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England W. Brandmüller, Das Konzil von Pavia‐Siena 1423‐1424 John A.A. Goodall, God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth‐Century Almshouse Christopher M. Bellitto, Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations Dominic Baker‐Smith, More's ‘Utopia’ Robert A. Burns, Roman Catholicism after Vatican II Øyvind. M. Eide, Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia: The Growth and Persecution of the Mekane Yesus Church, 1974‐85 Jacques Derrida, Acts of Religion Gunnar Skirbekk and Nils Gilje, A History of Western Thought Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom Roslyn Weiss, Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno Nicholas Denyer (ed.), Plato: Alcibiades Rachel Barney, Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus Peter Phillips Simpson, Vices, Virtues and Consequences: Essays in Moral and Political Philosophy Douglas A. Hicks, Inequality and Christian Ethics     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Benjamin Morison, On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place
James G. Lennox (ed.), Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals
Bryan W. van Norden (ed.), Confucius and the Analects: New Essays
Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist
John Perry, Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness
Michael Tye, Consciousness, Color and Content
Peter Goldie, The Emotions: a Philosophical Exploration
Christopher Cordner, Ethical Encounter: the Depth of Moral Meaning
Mary Warnock, Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?
David Braybrooke, Natural Law Modernized
Gordon Graham Universities: the Recovery of an Idea     

Reviews

Books reviewed: M. C. Goldstein & M. T. Kapstein (eds), Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity Wendy Sinclair-Brull, Female Ascetics: Hierarchy and Purity in an Indian Religious Movement Menachem Kellner, Must a Jew Believe Anything? Vera Schwarcz, Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory Stephen E. Fowl, Engaging Scripture: A Model for Theological Interpretation Lester L. Grabbe, Ezra-Nehemiah Rolf Rendtorff, The Covenant Formulary: An Exegetical and Theological Investigation A. Graeme Auld, Joshua Retold: Synoptic Perspectives V. H. Matthews, B. M. Levinson and T. Frymer-Kensky (eds), Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Steve Mason (ed.), Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman, Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts Ben Witherington III, The Many Faces of the Christ: The Christologies of the New Testament and Beyond Anne Thurston, Knowing Her Place: Gender And The Gospels Nicholas King, Whispers of Liberation: Feminist Perspectives on the New Testament Elaine M. Wainwright, Shall We Look For Another? A Feminist Rereading of the Matthean Jesus Joseph W. Trigg, Origen Anthony Meredith S.J., Gregory of Nyssa Giuliana Cavallini, Catherine of Siena S. H. Webb, On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals Bishop Joe Aldred (ed.), Preaching with Power: Sermons by Black Preachers Gary Dorrien, The Remaking of Evangelical Theology R. H. Stone and M. L. Weaver (eds), Against the Third Reich: Paul Tillich's Wartime Radio Broadcasts into Nazi Germany George R. Hunsberger, Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality Hermann Häring, Hans Küng: Breaking Through Timothy O'Connell, Making Disciples: A Handbook of Christian Moral Formation John J. McNeill, Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair James L. Empereur, Spiritual Direction and the Gay Person Stanley Hauerwas, Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified George Pattison, The End of Theology – and the Task of Thinking about God J. Rieger (ed.), Liberating the Future: God, Mammon and Theology Don Cupitt, The Revelation of Being     

Reviews

Books reviewed: L. E. Keck et al. (eds), Numbers, Deuteronomy, Introduction to Narrative Literature, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1&2 Samuel S. E. Gillingham, One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies Michael D. Goulder, The Psalms of the Return (Book 5, Psalms 107–150): Studies in the Psalter IV James D. G. Dunn, T. & T. Clark, The Theology of Paul the Apostle D. Mendels, Identity, Religion and Historiography: Studies in Hellenistic History William Horbury, Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ James S. McLaren, Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE J. Neusner and B. Chilton, Jewish-Christian Debates: God, Kingdom, Messiah Ben Pink Dandelion, Douglas Gwyn and Timothy Peat, Heaven on Earth: Quakers and the Second Coming Adnan Aslam, Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr W. Cantwell Smith, Believing: An Historical Perspective W. Cantwell Smith, Faith and Belief: The Difference Between Them Norman Doe, Canon Law in the Anglican Communion: A Worldwide Perspective G. R. Evans, Discipline and Justice in the Church of England Alan Falconer (ed.), Faith and Order in Moshi: The 1996 Commission Meeting Lewis S. Mudge, The Church as Moral Community: Ecclesiology and Ethics in Ecumenical Debate T. F. Best and D. Hellar (eds), Eucharistic Worship in Ecumenical Contexts: The Lima Liturgy – And Beyond Timothy Bradshaw ed, Grace and Truth in the Secular Age José Comblin, Called for Freedom: The Changing Context of Liberation Theology Karen Kilby, Karl Rahner Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women and Redemption: A Theological History Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology Johannes A. van der Ven, Formation of the Moral Self Robin Gill (ed.), Euthanasia and the Churches Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil John Polkinghorne, Science and Theology: An Introduction John P. Burgess (ed.), In Whose Image? Faith, Science and the New Genetics Stephen Platten (ed.), Seeing Ourselves: Interpreting Contemporary Society Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (eds), Religion Ursula King (ed.), Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine
Richard Davies, Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue
John E. Costello, John Macmurray: a Biography
Michael Williams, Problems of Knowledge: a Critical Introduction to Epistemology
Richard Swinburne, Epistemic Justification
Thomas Kuhn, The Road Since 'Structure'
Nalini Bhushan and Stuart Rosenfeld (eds.), Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry
Julia Driver, Uneasy Virtue
Sabina Lovibond, Ethical Formation
Derk Pereboom, Living Without Free Will
R.A. Duff, Punishment, Communication, and Community
A.E. Denham, Metaphor and Moral Experience     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing, by Jeffrey M. Masson. Schools for the 21st Century, by Phillip C. Schlechty. Adlerian Counseling: A Practical Approach for a New Decade (3rd ed.), by Thomas J. Sweeney. Muncie, Handbook of Racial/Ethnic Minority Counseling Research, by Joseph G. Ponterotto and J. Manuel Casas. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, Human Change Processes, by Michael J. Mahoney.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Cynthia A. Freeland (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
Christopher Williams, A Cultivated Reason: an Essay on Hume and Humeanism
John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology
John Burgess and Gideon Rosen, A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics
Peter Smith, Explaining Chaos
Sahotra Sarkar, Genetics and Reductionism
Antony Duff (ed.), Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique
Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (ed.), Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality
Peter French and Howard Wettstein (eds), Philosophy of the Emotions     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays . By G ail F ine .
The Dialectic of Essence: a Study of Plato's Metaphysics . By A llan S ilverman .
Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Masterpiece: an Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy . B y R oss H arrison .
A Defense of Hume on Miracles . B y R obert J. F ogelin .
Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy . B y P atrick R. F rierson .
Sittengesetz und Freiheit: Untersuchungen zu Immanuel Kants Theorie des freien Willens . B y J ens T immermann .
On Liberty . By J ohn S tuart M ill . E dited by D avid B romwich and G eorge K ateb .
Donald Davidson . E dited by K irk L udwig .
A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals . B y J onathan B ennett .
Modality . B y J oseph M elia .
Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology . E dited by J ohannes R oessler and N aomi E ilan .
Defending Science – Within Reason . B y S usan H aack .
Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition . B y W illiam C ase-beer .
Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy . B y R ussell H ardin .
Indeterminacy and Society . B y R ussell H ardin .
Does God Exist? The Craig—Flew Debatez . E dited by S tan W. W allace .
The Creation of Art . E dited by B erys G aut and P aisley L ivingston .     

Reviews

Malpas, J.E. (ed) The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan Vols I and II
Popper, Karl R. The Myth of the Framework and Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem
Baier, Annette Moral Prejudices
Gormally, Luke (ed) Moral Truth and Moral Tradition
Preyer, G., Siebelt, F. and Ulfig, A. (eds) Language, Mind and Epistemology: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy
Midgley, Mary The Ethical Primate     

Reviews

Abstract

The sixth annual banff conference on behavior modification looks at families: Perspectives, polemics, and promises, Cole Barton, James F. Alexander

Behavior Modification and Families. Mash, E.J., Hammerlynck, L.A., and Handy, L.C. (Eds.), New York: Brunner/Mazel Publishers, 1976, $13.50, 362 pages.

Behavior Modification Approaches to Parenting. Mash, E.J. Hammerlynck, L.A., and Handy, L.C. (Eds.), New York: Brunner/Mazel Publishers, 1976, $13.50, 254 pages.

The abusing family, Blair, Rita Justice, William Friedrich, Human Sciences Press, 1976, $14.95, 288 pages     

The role of causal attributions in competitive situations

Previous data have shown that successful women are judged to have masculine characteristics [J. A. Doyle (1989), The Male Experience(2nd ed.), Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown; D. L. Gill (1986), Psychological Dynamics of Sport,Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics; D. J. Murphy (1988), “Sport and Gender,” in W. M. Leonard II (Ed.), A Sociological Perspective of Sport(3rd ed.), New York: Macmillan; P. Willis (1994), “Women in Sport in Ideology,” in S. Birrell and C. L. Cole (Eds.), Women, Sport, and Culture,Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics]. Two experiments were conducted to test two different explanations for this effect, the appraisal and attribution hypotheses. In Experiment 1, male participants who lost to a female confederate on a masculine-relevant task rated her as having more masculine and fewer feminine characteristics than when the task was described as feminine-relevant. However, heart rate and blood pressure data failed to support the appraisal hypothesis that these reactions were due to the stress of losing to the female, or defensiveness. The alternative hypothesis that these ratings were due to standard attributional processes was more consistent with the data. Consequently, this hypothesis was tested in Experiment 2 using an attributional paradigm. Consistent with Experiment 1, the attribution hypothesis fared better than did the appraisal hypothesis.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article.
The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis. By E ugene G. D'A quili , C harles D. L aughlin , J r ., and J ohn M c M anus , with Tom Burns, Barbara Lex, G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., and W. John Smith.
Beginnings in Ritual Studies. By R onald L. G rimes .
Pluralism and Personality: William James and Some Contemporary Cultures & Psychology. By D on S. B rowning .
Primordiality, Science and Value. By R. M. M artin .
After Virtue, a Study an Moral Theory. By A lasdair M acintyre .