Reviews: Books

THE MYSTICAL MIND: PROBING THE BIOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. By Eugene d'Aquili and Andrew Newberg. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1999. $20.00. WHY GOD WON'T GO AWAY: BRAIN SCIENCE AND THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF. By Eugene d'Aquili and Andrew Newberg. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. $14.00. THE TREE AS IT IS: NEW AND SELECTED HAIKU POETRY. By Bernard l. Einbond. 73 pp. Red Moon Press, 2000. $12.00. FEMALE SEXUALITY: CONTEMPORARY ENGAGEMENTS. Edited by Donna Bassin. 507 pp. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1999. $60.00. DAMANGED BONDS. By Michael Eigen. 179 pp. London & New York: Karnac Books. $29.95. TRANSCENDING: REFLECTIONS OF CRIME VICTIMS. By Howard Zehr. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2001. $18.95. ATTACHMENT THEORY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. By Peter Fonagy. 261 pp. New York: Other Press, 2001. $35.00.THE HANDY RELIGION ANSWER BOOK. By John Renard. 582 pp. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 2002. $21.95.THE MANY FACES OF FAITH: A GUIDE TO WORLD RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS. By Richard R. Losch. 187 pp. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001. $19.00. THE BRONTES AND RELIGION. By Marianne Thornmahlen. 287 pp. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $60.00.     

Reviews: Books, Art

FINDING SPACE: WINNICOTT, GOD, AND PSYCHIC REALITY. By Ann Belford Ulanov. 232 pp. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. $24.95. ON RELIGION. By John D. Caputo. New York: Routledge Press, 2001. $12.95. ORDINARY MIND: EXPLORING THE COMMON GROUND OF ZEN AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. By Barry Magid. 190 pp. Boston: Wisdom Pub, 2001. $22.95. SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE. By Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey. 352 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. $35.00. EROTIC INNOCENCE: THE CULTURE OF CHILD MOLESTING. By James R. Kincaid. 352 pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. $24.95. PRACTICING PRESENCE: THE SPIRITUALITY OF CARING IN EVERYDAY LIFE. By Kerry Walters. 122 pp. Franklin, WI: Sheed & Ward, Inc., 2001. $14.95. TERRIFYING TRANSFERENCES: AFTERSHOCKS OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. By Lawrence E. Hedges. 497 pp. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2000. $65.00. THE ORIFICE AS SACRIFICIAL SITE: CULTURE, ORGANIZATION, AND THE BODY. By James Aho. 153 pp. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002. $45.95. The Paintings of Joan Mitchell     

Reviews: Books and Films

TO REDEEM ONE PERSON IS TO REDEEM THE WORLD: THE LIFE OF FRIEDA FROMM-REICHMANN. By Gail A. Hornstein. 390 pp. New York: The Free Press, 2000. $35. THE GUIDE TO PASTORAL COUNSELING AND CARE. Edited by Gary Ahlskog and Harry Sands. 415 pp. Madison, CT: International Universities Press and Psychosocial Press, 2000. $60. THE ART OF DYING: A JUNGIAN VIEW OF PATIENTS' DRAWINGS. By Yvonne Barnhouse Williams. 209 pp. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1999. $24.95. LITTLE SAINT. By Hannah Green. New York: Random House, 2000. $25.95. BODY AND SOUL: HUMAN NATURE AND THE CRISIS IN ETHICS. By J.P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae. 350 pp. InterVarsity Press, 2000. $22.99. MUHAMMAD AND THE RISE OF ISLAM: THE CREATION OF GROUP IDENTITY. By Subhash C. Inamdar, M.D. 266 pp. Madison, Ct: International Universities Press and Psychosocial Press, 2001. $40. MANAGING MANAGED CARE: SECRETS FROM A FORMER CASE MANAGER. By Susan Frager. 276 pp. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. $45. THE DISABLED GOD: TOWARD A LIBERATORY THEOLOGY OF DISABILITY. By Nancy L. Eiesland. 139 pp. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994. $15. A LIFE COMPLETE. By Sallierae Henderson. 222 pp. New York: Scribner, 2000. $24. BIOENGAGEMENT: MAKING A CHRISTIAN DIFFERENCE IN BIOETHICS TODAY. Edited by Nigel Cameron, Scott Daniel and Barbara White. 265 pp. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm.B.Eerdmans, 2000. $22. CALLED INTO HEALING: RECLAIMING OUR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN LEGACY OF HEALING TOUCH. By Linda L. Smith. 244 pp. Arvada, CO: HTSM Press, 2000. $22.95. SURVEYING THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE: TRENDS IN U.S. BELIEFS. By George Gallup, Jr. and D. Michael Lindsay. 171 pp. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1999. $17.95. The Straight Story. Snow Falling On Cedars     

Reviews: Books, Art

YOGA AND PSYCHOLOGY. By Howard Coward. 115 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. $16.95. CASE STUDIES IN INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: RISK, RESILIENCY AND RELATIONSHIPS. Edited by Joan J. Shirilla and Deborah J. Weatherston. 203 pp. Washington, D.C.: Zero to Three, 2002. $32.95. JACOB'S SHADOW: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON MASCULINITY. By Herbert Anderson. 173 pp. Louisville, KY: Bridge Resources, 2002. $18.95. LEONARDO DA VINCI. By Sherwin B. Nuland. 170 pp. New York: Viking, 2002. $19.95. FAITH AND THE PLACEBO EFFECT: AN ARGUMENT FOR SELF-HEALING. By Lolette Kuby. 323 pp. Novato, CA: Origin Press, 2001. $23.00. NOTHING PERSONAL, JUST BUSINESS: A GUIDED JOURNEY INTO ORGANIZATIONAL DARKNESS. By Howard F. Stein. Westport, CT: Quorum/Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. FAITH BEYOND FAITH HEALING: FINDING HOPE AFTER SHATTERED DREAMS. By Kimberly Winston. 115 pp. Brewster, MA: Praraclete Press, 2002. A SHADOW OF GLORY: READING THE NEW TESTAMENT AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. Edited by Tod Linafelt. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. LOVE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH: THE MYSTICAL UNION OF TWO SOULS. By Cynthia Bourgeault. 222 pp. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2001. $14.95. Moving Pictures     

Reviews: Books, Art

THREE MOTHERS THREE DAUGHTERS: PALESTINIAN WOMEN'S STORIES. By Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman. New York: Other Press, 2000, $20 (softcover printing of 1996 University of California Press book). BREATHING SPACE: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY IN THE SOUTH BRONX. By Heidi B. Neumark. 286 pp. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. $25. KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR: AMERICAN RELIGION IN THE AGE OF COUNTERCULTURE. By Mark Oppenheimer. 285 pp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. $30. PROFILES OF PLAY: ASSESSING AND OBSRVING STRUCTURE AND PROCESS IN PLAY THERAPY. By Saralea Chazan. 224 pp. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002. $24.95. THE HAPPINESS PARADOX. By Ziyad Marar. 209 pp. London: Reakition Books, 2003. $19.95. GOD AT THE EDGE: SEARCHING FOR THE DIVINE IN UNCOMFORTABLE AND UNEXPECTED PLACES. By Niles Elliot Goldstein. 197 pp. New York: Random House, 2003. $22. THE RURAL LIFE. By Verlyn Klinkenborg. 213 pp. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. $20. OAXACA JOURNAL. By Oliver Sacks. 159 pp. Washington, DC: National Geographic Directions, 2002. $20. THE MAYS OF VENTADORA. By W.S. Merwin. 159 pp. Washington, DC: National Geographic Directions, 2002, $20.     

Reviews: Books Photography

RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE EMERGENCE OF A TRADITION. Edited by Stephen A. Mitchell and Lewis Aron. 514 pp. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1999. $39.95. D.H. LAWRENCE AND THE PARADOXES OF PSYCHIC LIFE. By Barbara Ann Schapiro. 155 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. $17.95. TECHNOLOGY AS MAGIC: THE TRIUMPH OF THE IRRATIONAL. By Richard Stivers. 240 pp. New York: Continuum Press. 1999. $24. REFLECTIONS ON A RAVAGED CENTURY. By Robert Conquest. 317 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, $27.95. THE MYSTERIES WITHIN A SURGEON REFLECTS ON MEDICAL MYTHS. By Sherwin B. Nuland. 274 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000, $24.00. DISEASE, PAIN, AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR. By Elisabeth Stenager and Egon Stenager. 127 pp. New York: The Haworth Medical Press, 1998. $17.95. TRAUMA ASSESSMENTS: A CLINICIAN'S GUIDE. By E. B. Carlson. 307 pp. New York: The Guilford Press, 1997. $30. ON INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: AN ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOK. By David A. Freedman, M.D. 247 pp. Madison: International Universities Press, Inc., 1999. $27.95. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. By Mitch Albom. 192 pp. New York: Doubleday, 1997. $21. THE SORROWS OF THE QUAKER JESUS; JAMES NAYLER AND THE PURITAN CRACKDOWN ON THE FREE SPIRIT. By Leo Damrosch. 322 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, $39.95. THE PASTORAL CARE OF DEPRESSION: A GUIDEBOOK. By Binford W. Gilbert. 127 pp. New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 1998. $19.95. LEARNING DISABILITIES AND PSYCHIC CONFLICT: A PSYCHOANALYTIC CASEBOOK. By Arden Aibel Rothstein, Ph.D., and Jules Glenn, M.D. 504 pp. Madison: International Universities Press, Inc., 1999. $78. HAUNTED CHILDREN: RETHINKING MEDICATION OF COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS. By Arthur F. Roemmelt, MD. 196 pp. New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. $17.95. NAVIGATING THE DEEP RIVER: SPIRITUALITY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES. By Archie Smith, Jr. 181 pp. Cleveland, Ohio: United Church Press, 1997. $15.95. AL-JUNUN: MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. Edited by Ihsan Al-Issa. 382 pp. Madison: International Universities Press, 2000. $48. Witnessing the Lack of Sanctuary     

Reviews: Books, Theater, and Painting

JUNG AND THE POSTMODERN: THE INTERPRETATION OF REALITIES. By Christopher Hauke. 304 pp. London & Philadelphia: Routledge, 2000. THE FASHIONING OF ANGELS: PARTNERSHIP AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE. By Stephen and Robin Larsen. pp. Chrysalis Books, 2000, $19.95. CHILDREN IN THERAPY: USING THE FAMILY AS A RESOURCE. Edited by C. Everett Bailey. 529 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. $45.00. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND COPING: THEORY, RESEARCH, PRACTICE. By Kenneth I. Pargament. New York: Guilford Press, 1997. $50.00. SOUL WILDERNESS: A DESERT SPIRITUALITY. By Kerry Walters. 153pp. New York/Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 2001. $12.95. SOUL MAKING: THE DESERT WAY OF SPIRITUALITY. By Alan Jones. 215 pp. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1985. $16.00. Theater: Words of Albert Schweitzer and the Music of Bach. Painting: Vermeer and the Delft School     

Reviews: Books, Art

LOCATING THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT: NOVALIS WITH WINNICOTT. By Gail M. Newman. 258 pp. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1997. $39.95. MENTORING: THE MINISTRY OF SPIRITUAL KINSHIP. By Edward C. Sellner. 198 pp. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 2002. $12.95. CREATING SCHOOLS THAT HEAL: REAL LIFE SOLUTIONS. By Lesley Koplow. 232 pp. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. $19.95. MORAL MEMORANDA FROM JOHN HOWARD YODER: CONVERSATIONS ON LAW, ETHICS, AND THE CHURCH BETWEEN A MENNONITE THEOLOGIAN AND A HOOSIER LAWYER. By Thomas L. Shaffer. 121 pp. Eugene, OR: WIPF and Stock Publishers, 2002. $16.00. TALK IS NOT ENOUGH: HOW PSYCHOTHERAPY REALLY WORKS. By Willard Gaylin, M.D. 323 pp. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. $24.95. MICHAL ROVNER: THE SPACE BETWEEN     

Reviews: Books and Films

INFINITE GRACE: WHEN THE WORDS OF SCIENCE AND SPIRITUAL HEALING MEET. By Diane Goldner. 346 pp. Hampton Roads, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1999, $23.95. DEATH ANXIETY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE. By Robert Langs. 250 pp. London: Karnac Books, 1997. $33. THE FORCE OF CHARACTER AND THE LASTING LIFE. By James Hillman. 236 pp. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. $14. THE DEAD MOTHER: THE WORK OF ANDRE GREEN. Edited by Gregorio Kohon. 228 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. $. A DARWINIAN LEFT: POLITICS, EVOLUTION AND COOPERATION. By Peter Singer. 70 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Hardback $. THE ECSTATIC IMAGINATION: PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCES AND THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION. By Dan Merkur. 226 pp. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. $19.95. THE UNKNOWN GOD: SEARCHING FOR SPIRITUAL FULFILLMENT. By Alister McGrath. 123 pp. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999. $18.00. Films: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Girlfight; Gladiator; The Contender     

Reviews: Books

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BUDDHISM: AN UNFOLDING DIALOGUE. Edited by Jeremy D. Safran. 443 pp. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003. 19.95 (paperback). THE HOUSE OF JOSHUA. By Mindy Thompson Fullilove. 160 pp. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. $. MAGIC OF THE ORDINARY: RECOVERING THE SHAMANIC IN JUDAISM. By Gershon Winkler. Pp Place: North Atlantic Books, 2003. $. RAISING AMERICA: EXPERTS, PARENTS AND A CENTURY OF ADVICE ABOUT CHILDREN, by Ann Hulbert. 450 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. $27.50.. HONKY. By Dalton Conley. 207 pp. New York: Vintage Books, 2001. $12.00.     

Reviews: Books, Art

POLITICS ON THE COUCH: CITIZENSHIP AND THE INTERNAL LIFE. By Andrew Samuels, 235 pp. New York: Karnac (Other Press). $16.00. MARTHA, MARTHA: HOW CHRISTIANS WORRY. By Elaine Leong Eng, M.D. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Inc., 2000. $14.95. SPILT MILK: PERINATAL LOSS AND BREAKDOWN. Edited by Joan Raphael-Leff. 100 pp. London: Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2000. MOTHERHOOD AND SEXUALITY. By Marie Langer, 305 pp. New York: Other Press, 2000. $30.00. BRANCHING STREAMS FLOW IN THE DARKNESS: ZEN TALKS ON THE SANDOKAI. By S. Suzuki. Eds: M. Weitsman and M. Wegner. 193 pp. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. $22.50. RESTORED HARMONY: AN EVIDENCE BASED APPROACH FOR INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE INTO COMPLEMENTARY CANCER CARE. By Stephen Sagar, MD. xviii + 134 pp. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Dreaming Dragonfly Communications, 2001. $19.95 (US); $29.95 (Can.), paperback. (ISBN: 0-9689488-0-4). CHIYO-NI, WOMAN HAIKU MASTER. By Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi, 184 pp. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1998. $16.95. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB: A STORY OF IDEAS IN AMERICA. By Louis Menand, 442 pp. New York: Farrrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. $27.00. BUDDHISM WITHOUT BELIEFS: A CONTEMPORARY GUIDE TO AWAKENING. By Stephen Bachelor, 127 pp. Riverhead Books, 1997. $21.95. Video Art is Dead, Long Live Video Art     

A Review of “A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion”

ABSTRACT

HOLMAN OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY: EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS. Glen S. Martin. Nashville, TN: Broadman &; Holman Publishers, 2002, 387 pp., $19.99. Reviewed by Gregg Watson.

THE WESTMINSTER DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND RHETORIC. David E. Aune. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, xii, 595 pp., ISBN: 0-664-21917-9, $49.95. Reviewed by Iren L. Snavely, Jr.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND WAR, Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society Series. Edited by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez. New York &; London: Routledge, 2004, 512 pp., 33 b/w illustrations, ISBN: 0-415-94246-2, $125.00. Reviewed by Al Vara.

READING IS BELIEVING: THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH LITERATURE AND FILM. David S. Cunningham. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002, 237 pp., $18.99. Reviewed by Robert F. Darden III.

UNDERSTANDING THE HADITH: THE SACRED TRADITIONS OF ISLAM. Ram Swarup. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002, 258 pp., $22.00. Reviewed by Jeannie Colson.

AN INDEX TO ENGLISH PERIODICAL LITERATURE ON THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, Vol. VIII, ATLA Bibliography Series, 21. Compiled and edited by William G. Hupper. Lanham, MD and London: The American Theological Library Association, and The Scarecrow Press, 1999, 483 pp., $70.00. Reviewed by John Dickason.

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF EVANGELICALS. Editor: Timothy Larsen; Consulting Editors: David Bebbington and Mark Noll. Leicester, England and Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003, 816 pp., $45.00. Reviewed by J. Michael Garrett.

LOGOS BIBLE SOFTWARE SERIES X-SCHOLAR'S LIBRARY (QB). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, 2004, $599.95, CDROM or DVD. Reviewed by Jason D. Baker.     

BOOK REVIEWS

REGULATING RELIGION: CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. Edited by James T. Richardson. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. xiv + 578 pp. $216.00 cloth, $95.00 paper. PAGAN THEOLOGY: PAGANISM AS A WORLD RELIGION. By Michael York. New York/London: New York University Press, 2003. x + 239 pp. $40.00 cloth. THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT: ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET'S APOCALYPTIC MOVEMENT. By Bradley C. Whitsel. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xvi + 221pp. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. MAIN STREET MYSTICS: THE TORONTO BLESSING AND REVIVING PENTECOSTALISM. By Margaret M. Poloma. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003. 256 pp. $72.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. THE PENITENTE BROTHERHOOD: PATRIARCHY AND HISPANO‐CATHOLICISM IN NEW MEXICO. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. vii + 259 pp. $45.00 cloth. CATHOLICISM, LA FIN D'UN MONDE. By Danièle Hervieu‐Léger. Paris, France: Bayard, 2003. 234 pp. €23 paper. THEY CALL HIM PASTOR: MARRIED MEN IN CHARGE OF CATHOLIC PARISHES. By Ruth A. Wallace. New York: Paulist Press, 2003. 276 pp. $19.95 paper. THE HISTORY OF THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. By Peter J. Paris, John Wesley Cook, James Hudnut‐Beumler, Lawrence H. Mamiya, Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, and Judith Weisenfeld, with a foreword by Martin E. Marty. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xiv + 350 pp. $29.95 cloth. RELIGION IN THE LIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS: SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND HEALTH PERSPECTIVES. By Robert J. Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, and Jeff Levin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. xvii + 300 pp. $69.95 cloth, $34.95 paper. THE SECULAR REVOLUTION: POWER, INTERESTS, AND CONFLICT IN THE SECULARIZATION OF AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE. Edited by Christian Smith. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. xii + 484 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. SCHOOL BOARD BATTLES: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN LOCAL POLITICS. By Melissa M. Deckman. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. xvi + 224 pp. $39.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. MEDIA, HOME, AND FAMILY. By Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane F. Alters, with Joseph G. Champ and Lee Hood. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 209 pp. $85.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.     

BOOK REVIEWS

HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Edited by Helen Rose Ebaugh. New York: Springer, 2005. xxii + 439 pp. $199.00 cloth, $69.95 paper.
A CHURCH OF OUR OWN: DISESTABLISHMENT AND DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN RELIGION. By R. Stephen Warner. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ix + 307 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
SACRED CIRCLES, PUBLIC SQUARES: THE MULTICENTERING OF AMERICAN RELIGION, by Arthur E. Farnsley II, N. J. Demerath III, Etan Diamond, Mary Mapes, and Elfriede Wedam. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 272 pp. $45.00 cloth.
SAVING SOULS, SERVING SOCIETY: UNDERSTANDING THE FAITH FACTOR IN CHURCH-BASED SOCIAL MINISTRY. By Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 323 pp. $35.00 cloth.
POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE WHITE SOUTH. Edited by Glenn Feldman. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xiii + 386 pp. $55.00 cloth.
AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL INTEGRATION IN RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. By Brad Christerson, Korie L. Edwards, and Michael O. Emerson. New York: New York University Press, 2005. ix + 197 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.00 paper.
A MOSAIC OF BELIEVERS: DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN A MULTIETHNIC CHURCH. By Gerardo Marti. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. ix + 239 pp. $39.95 cloth.
T. D. JAKES: AMERICA'S NEWEST PREACHER. By Shayne Lee. New York: New York University Press, 2005. x+201 pp. $27.95 cloth.
QUOTING GOD: HOW MEDIA SHAPE IDEAS ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE. Edited by Claire Hoertz Badaracco. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2005. xv + 307 pp. $$29.95 paper.
THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SHOW LIKE VEGGIE TALES: SACRED MESSAGES IN A SECULAR MARKET. By Hillary Warren. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2005. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
SCHOLARSHIP AND CHRISTIAN FAITH: ENLARGING THE CONVERSATION. By Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii–190 pp. $35.00 cloth.     

BOOK REVIEWS

MAKING THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FRINGE: EXOTICS, SUBVERSIVES, AND JOURNALISTS, 1955–1993. By Sean McCloud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 256 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
FROM ANGELS TO ALIENS: TEENAGERS, THE MEDIA, AND THE SUPERNATURAL. By Lynn Schofield Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 292 pp. $29.95 cloth.
FREEING GOD'S CHILDREN: THE UNLIKELY ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS. By Allen D. Hertzke. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xiii + 421 pp. $27.95 cloth.
PEACE AND PERSISTENCE: TRACING THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST PEACE WITNESS THROUGH THREE GENERATIONSPEACE AND PERSISTENCE: TRACING THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST PEACE WITNESS THROUGH THREE GENERATIONS. By M. J. Heisey. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. xvi + 280 pp. $45.00 cloth.
SOFT PATRIARCHS, NEW MEN: HOW CHRISTIANITY SHAPES FATHERS AND HUSBANDS. By W. Bradford Wilcox. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix + 337 pp. $62.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.
WEATHERING CHANGE: GAYS AND LESBIANS, CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES, AND EVERYDAY HOSTILITIES. By Thomas J. Linneman. New York: New York University Press, 2003. x + 266 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.
NEW AGE, A GUIDE: ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES FROM AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY TO NEXT AGE. By Daren Kemp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. $22.50 paper.
JEWISH PASSAGES: CYCLES OF JEWISH LIFE. By Harvey E. Goldberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 379 pp. $27.50 cloth.
THE FORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN ANTIOCH: A SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE SEPARATION BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. By Magnus Zetterholm. London: Routledge, 2003. xiv + 272 pp. $92.95 cloth.     

Power Issues in Therapists

Abstract

COUPLES IN TREATMENT: TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES FOR EFFECTIVE PRACTICE (SECOND EDITION). Gerald R. Weeks and Stephen R. Treat. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001, 288 pp. $34.43 (hardback). Reviewed by Kevin P. Lyness.

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SEX THERAPY, 3RD EDITION. Edited by Sandra R. Leiblum and Raymond C. Rosen. New York: Guilford Press, 2000, 514 pp., $50.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Kristen Ullstrup.

ADULT ATTACHMENT AND COUPLE PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE ‘SECURE BASE’ IN PRACTICE AND RESEARCH. Edited b) Christopher Clulow. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge, 2001, 22t pp., $60.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Zeynep Biringen.

VALUES-SENSITIVE FAMILY THERAPY WITH DR. BILL DOH-ERTY: FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS. Jon Carlson, Diane Kjos, and William J. Doherty. Boston, MA: Allyn &; Bacon, 2001, $68.00 (VHS Videotape), $94.00 (Video with CE Quiz). Reviewed by Zepnep Biringen.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Abstract

FAMILY TREATMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS: ADVANCES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. Malcolm M. MacFarlane, (Ed.). Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, 2004, 409pp., $34.95. (paperback). Reviewed by William F. Murray.

THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIP PURSUIT: FROM ATTRACTION TO OBSESSION AND STALKING. William R. Cupach and Brian H. Spitzberg. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004, 336pp., $69.95 (hardback), $32.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Dynesha D. Mason.

DIVORCE AND FAMILY MEDIATION: MODELS, TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS, Jay Folberg, Ann Milne, and Peter Salem, (Eds). New York: Guildford Press, 2004, 576pp., $67.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Susan M. Boyan.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
CULTS, RELIGION, AND VIOLENCE. Edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 270 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.
THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF RELIGION: VIOLENCE IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM. Edited by J. Harold Ellens. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 4 volumes. $300.00 cloth.
SACRED FURY: UNDERSTANDING RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE. By Charles Selengut. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. viii + 269 pp. $69.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
ETHNORELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A GENERAL THEORY. By Jonathan Fox. New York: Lexington Books, 2002. ix + 253pp. $70.00 cloth.
COMPETITIVE SPIRITS: LATIN AMERICA'S NEW RELIGIOUS ECONOMY. By R. Andrew Chesnut. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi +189 pp. $35.00 cloth.
NEW DAY BEGUN: AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES AND CIVIC CULTURE IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICA. Edited by R. Drew Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 310 pp. $29.95 cloth.
FAITH, MORALITY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY. Edited by Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. xvii + 232 pp. $70.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.
RELIGION AS SOCIAL CAPITAL: PRODUCING THE COMMON GOOD. Edited by Corwin Smidt. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003. vii + 266 pp. $34.95 paper.
THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: MARCHING TO THE MILLENNIUM. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. viii + 296 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
THE PROPHETIC PULPIT: CLERGY, CHURCHES, AND COMMUNITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS. By Paul A. Djupe and Christopher P. Gilbert. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xi + 257 pp. $80.00 cloth; $28.95 paper.
BLACK MAGIC: RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION. By Yvonne P. Chireau. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ix + 222 pp. $34.95, cloth.     

Notes on the Existential Psychotherapist as a Host in Couples Therapy

EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLE THERAPY WITH TRAUMA SURVIVORS: STRENGTHENING ATTACHMENT BONDS. Susan M. Johnson. New York: Guilford, 2002, 228 pp., $30.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Connie Salts.

COUPLES IN CONFLICT. Edited by Alan Booth, Ann Crouter, and Mari Clement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001, 304 pp., $59.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Kyle D. Killian.

CONFLICT AND DECISION-MAKING IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS. Erich Kirchler, Christa Rodler, Eric Holzl, &; Katja Meier. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor &; Francis, 2001, 272 pp., $62.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Anna K. Hultquist.

CLOSE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT. Edited by John Harvey and Amy Wenzel. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001, 400 pp., $89.95 (hardback), $37.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Mark Odell.

A CLINICIAN'S GUIDE TO MAINTAINING AND ENHANCING CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS. Edited by John Harvey and Amy Wenzel. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, 342 pp., $79.95 (hardback), $36.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Mark Odell.

BEYOND THE MYTH OF MARITAL HAPPINESS: HOW EMBRACING THE VIRTUES OF LOYALTY, GENEROSITY, JUSTICE AND COURAGE CAN STRENGTHEN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS. Blaine Fowers. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2000, 241 pp., $25.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Roy Bean.     

Reviews: Books and Theater

HEINZ KOHUT: THE MAKING OF A PSYCHOANALYST. By Charles B. Strozier. 475 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. $35.00. Theater: The Amen Cornerby James Baldwin