Book reviews

Abstract

Oakhill, J. &; Garnham, A. (1988). Becoming a skilled reader, Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 206. ISBN 0-631-15244X £27.50 (hardback), ISBN 0-631-15776X £8.95 (paperback).

Brewin, C. R. (1988). Cognitive foundations of clinical psychology. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-86377-098-3 £24.50 (hardback), ISBN 0-86377-099-1 £8.95 (paperback).     

Implicit learning,consciousness, and the psychology of thinking

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Berry, D., & Dienes, Z. (1993). Implicit learning: Theoretical and empirical issues. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. 197pp. ISBN 0-86377-223-4 £19.95 (hbk).

Reber A. S. (1993). Implicit learning and tacit knowledge: An essay on the cognitive unconscious. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1 88pp. ISBN 0-19-505-9425 £30.00 (hbk).     

Book notes

First Nations Faith and Ecology. Freda Rajotte, 1998 London: Cassell x +117 pp., £8.99 (pb) ISBN 0–304–70312–5

Religious Pluralism in the West. David George Mullan, ed., 1998 Oxford: Blackwell 350 pp., £50.00/US$64.95 (hb), £15.99/US$29.95 (pb) ISBN 0–631–20669–8 (hb), ISBN 0–631–20670–1 (pb)

Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction. Kim Knott, 1998 Oxford: Oxford University Press 139 pp., £5.99 ISBN 0–19–285341–4

Psychoanalytic Studies of Religion: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography. Benjamin Beit‐Hallahmi, 1996 Westport, Connecticut/London: Greenwood Press 188 pp., £55.50 ISBN 0–313–27362–6

The Psychology of Religion: Theoretical Approaches. Bernard Spilka & Daniel N. Mcintosh, eds., 1996 Boulder, Colorado/Oxford: Westview Press 282 pp., £48.50 (hb), £16.95 (pb) ISBN )‐8133–2946–9 (hb), ISBN 0–8133–2947–7 (pb)

The Religious Function of the Psyche. Lionel Corbett, 1996 London/New York: Routledge 264 pp., £45.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb) ISBN 0–415–14400–0 (hb), ISBN 0–415–14401–9 (pb)

The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics. Peter Van Inwagen, 1998 Boulder, Colorado/Oxford: Westview Press 118 pp., £41.50 ISBN 0–8133–2731–8

Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel. Oded Borowski, 1998 Walnut Creek/London/New Dehli: Altamira Press/Sage 296 pp., £35.00 (hb), £16.50 (pb) ISBN 0–7619–8918–8 (hb), ISBN 0–7619–8919–6 (pb)

A Critical Review. Michael Milston, 1997 London/Los Angeles/Sydney: Minerva Press 50 pp., £3.99 ISBN 1–86106–341–5

I Communiste Una religione dell'aldiquà. Michele Straniero, 1997 Milan: Mondadori 141 pp., Lire 12.000 ISBN 88–04–38672‐X

Bulgaria in the Circles of Anontie. Jelio Vladimirov, Todor Todorov, Ivan Katzarski, & Momtchil Badjakov, 1998 Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Swiss Institute for Development 121 pp., no price indicated no ISBN indicated     

Book Reviews

The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions Philip Kitcher, 1993 Oxford University Press pp. ix + 421, £30.00, ISBN 019 504628 5

Mind, Brain, Behavior. The Mind‐Body Problem and the Philosophy of Psychology Martin Carrier & JÜrgen Mittelstrass, 1991 Berlin, Walter de Gruyter pp. 314, £51.82, ISBN 3 11012876 4

Rewriting the History of Madness: Studies in Foucault's Histoire de la Folie Arthur Still & Irving Velody (Eds), 1992 Routledge pp. x + 225, £45, ISBN 0 415 06654 9

Economics and the Philosophy of Science Deborah Redman, 1993 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. xiv + 252, £10.95 (paperback), ISBN 019 508274 5

The Disorder of Things John Dupré, 1993 Cambridge, MA/London, UK, Harvard University Press pp. viii+ 308, £27.95, ISBN 0 674 21260 6

The Philosophy of Vacuum Simon Saunders & Harvey R. Brown (Eds), 1991 Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. 291, £37.50, ISBN 0 19 824449 5

The Laboratory of the Mind James R. Brown, 1991 London, Routledge pp. xi+ 175, £11.99 (paperback), ISBN 0 415 095794

The Revision Theory of Truth A. Gupta & N. D. Belnap, 1993 Cambridge, MA, MIT Press pp. xii + 299, £31.50, ISBN 0 262 07144 4     

Book Reviews

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REINTERPRETING MENOPAUSE: CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES. P. KOMESAROFF, P. ROTHFIELD and J. DALY (Eds.). Routledge, New York and London, 1997. pp. 280. UK £16.50. ISBN 0-415-91565-1.

INFERTILITY: PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES AND COUNSELING STRATEGIES. SANDRA R. LEIBLUM (Ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997. i-x + 278 pages. ISBN 0-471-12684-5 UK £39.95 hbk.

HANDBOOK OF PAIN AND AGING: PLENUM SERIES IN ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING. Edited by DAVID I. MOSTOFSKY and JACOB LOMRANZ. Plenum Press, New York, USA, 1997. pp. 386. ISBN 0-306-45458-0.     

Leibniz,Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation

Medieval Thought: The Western Intellectual Tradition from Antiquity to the Thirteenth Century by Michael Haren Second Edition. Macmillan 1992. Pp. ix + 315.

Being a Philosopher: The History of a Practice by D. W. Hamlyn London and New York: Roudedge 1992. Pp. x + 187. ISBN 0–415–02968–6.

A History of Western Philosophy Vol. 3, Renaissance Philosophy by Brian B. Copenhaver and Charles B. Schmitt Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 450. Hb £30.00. Pb £8.99.

La Scepsi moderna. Interpretazioni dello scetticismo da Charron a Hume by Gianni Paganini Pp. 528. Cosenza: Edizioni Il Busento 1991. L 60,000.

A History of Modern Political Thought 185 A History of Modern Political Thought, Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx by Iain Hampsher‐Monk Oxford: Blackwell 1992 Pp. xiii + 609 Paperback, £14.99.

Malebranche and Ideas 189 Malebranche and Ideas by Steven M. Nadler New York: Oxford University Press 1992. Pp. 192. ISBN 0–19–507724–5. £35.00

Kantian Aesthetics Pursued by Anthony Savile Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1993, ISBN 0–7486–0439–1

Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski by Peter Simons Kluwer 1992     

Book reviews and notes

MUHAMMAD'S MECCA — HISTORY IN THE QUR'AN. By W. Montgomery Watt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. 113pp. Pb.£6.50. ISBN 0–85224–0. Hb. £19.50. ISBN 0–85224–0.

DISCOVERING ISLAM: MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY. By Akbar S. Ahmed. London: Routledge, 1988.251pp. Hb.£25.00. Pb. £9.95. ISBN 0–7102–1049–3 (hb); 0–415–03930–4 (pb).

LE REGARD MUTILE: SCHlZOPHRENIE CULTURELLE: PAYS TRADITIONNELS FACE A LA MODERNITÉ. By Daryush Shaye‐gan. ‘Sciences et Symboles’, Collection dirigée par Michel Cazenave. Paris: Albin Michel, 1989. 248pp. Pb. FF120.00. ISBN 2–226–03466–8.

DZIHAD. SAVREMENI DZIHAD KAO RAT. By Miroljub Jevtic. Belgrade: Nova Knjiga, 1989. 400pp. Pb. Dinar 15.00. ISBN 86–7335–052–2.

THE ISLAMIC POLITY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: FUNDAMENTALISM, SECTARIANISM, AND PRAGMATISM. By Mehran Tamadonfar. Boulder, San Francisco, & London: Westview Press, 1989. ix+ 152pp. Pb.£16.95. ISBN 0–8133–7436–7.

THE POLITICAL LANGUAGE OF ISLAM. By Bernard Lewis. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 168pp. Pb.£l 1.95, $14.95. ISBN 0–226–47692–8.

BEYOND FRONTIERS: ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY NEEDS. Edited by Merryl Wyn Davies & Adnan Khalil Pasha. London and New York: Mansell Publishing, 1989.216pp. Hb.£25.00, US$45.00. ISBN 0–7201–2039‐X.

ISLAMIC NAMES. By Annemarie Schimmel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. 137pp. Hb.£25.00. ISBN 0–85224–563–7.

MEMOIR OF A FRIEND: LOUIS MASSIGNON. By Herbert Mason. London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. 160pp. Hb.£13.95. ISBN 0–268–01365–9THE DEATH OF AL‐HALLAJ. By HERBERT MASON. London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. 81pp. Hb.£7.50. ISBN 0–268–00842–6.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS. Edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol. 9. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. xviii + 220 pp. Hb.£20.95. ISBN 0–268–01068–2.

A COMPASS FOR THE SUNFLOWER. By Liana Badr. Translated by C. Cobham. London: The Women's Press, 1989.119pp. Hb.£11.95. ISBN 0 7043 5037 8.

ARAM PERIODICAL, Vol.1, no.1. Oxford: ARAM Society for Syro‐Mesopotamian Studies, Winter 1989. English and Arabic. xiv + 204pp. $40.00, half‐yearly.

APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE QUR'AN. Edited by Andrew Rippin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. xn + 334pp. Hb.n.p. ISBN 0–19–826546–8.

A PEOPLE APART: THE BAHA'I COMMUNITY OF IRAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Denis Maceoin. Occasional Paper 4, Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989, 35pp., ISSN 0954–1489

PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. By Mohammad Hashim Kamali. Petaling Jaya (Malaysia): Pelanduk Publications, 1989. xxii + 524pp. n.p. ISBN 967–978–284–0 (hb) and 967–978–281–6 (pb).

THE REMEMBRANCE OF DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE. BOOK XL OF THE REVIVAL OF THE RELIGIOUS SCIENCES Ihya ‘Ulūm al‐Din. By Abū Hamid al‐Ghazali. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by T.J. Winter. Cambridge(UK): The Islamic Texts Society, 1989. xxx + 347pp. Pb.£12.95. ISBN 0–946621–13–6; Hb. £35.00 ISBN 0–946621–09–8.

WOMBS AND ALIEN SPIRITS: WOMEN, MEN, AND THE ZAR CULT IN NORTHERN SUDAN. By Janics Boddy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 399pp. Pb. £22.95. ISBN 0–299–12314–6.

THE OROMO OF ETHIOPIA: A HISTORY 1570–1860. By Mohammed Hassen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 253pp. Hb.£30.00. ISBN 0‐ 521–38011–1.

MUSLIM SHRINES IN INDIA. Edited by Christian W. Troll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. 327pp. Hb. Rs.240.00. ISBN 0–19–562280–4.

LAW, BLASPHEMY AND THE MULTI‐FAITH SOCIETY. Report of a seminar organised by the Commission for Racial Equality and the Inter Faith Network of the United Kingdom, September 1989. London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990. 99pp. Pb.£1.50. ISBN 1–85442–030–5.

FREE SPEECH. Report of a seminar organised by the Commission for Racial Equality and the Policy Studies Institute, September 1989. London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990. 118pp. Pb.£2.00. ISBN 1–85442–024–0.

BRITAIN: A PLURAL SOCIETY. Report of a seminar organised by the Commission for Racial Equality and The Runnymede Trust, October 1989. London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990. 78pp. Pb.£1.50. ISBN 1–85442–028–3.

URDU AND MUSLIM SOUTH ASIA STUDIES IN HONOUR OF RALPH RUSSELL. Edited by Christopher Shackle. London: School of 304 Islam and Christian‐Muslim Relations Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London, 1989. xi + 205pp. Pb.£10.00. ISBN 0–7286–0156–7.

MUGHAL DOCUMENTS (1526–1627). By S.A.I.Tirmizi. New Delhi: Manohar, 1989. x + 255pp. Hb. Indian Rs.200. ISBN 81–85054–71–3.

THE FORMATION AND PERCEPTION OF THE MODERN ARAB WORLD. Studies by Marwan R. Buhhry. Edited by Lawrence I. Conrad. Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1989. 624pp. Hb.n.p. ISBN 0–87850–064–2.

THE MARONITES IN HISTORY. By Matti Mossa. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986.391pp. Hb.$35.00. ISBN 0–8156–2365–8.

INTIFADA; THE PALESTINIAN UPRISING AGAINST ISRAELI OCCUPATION. Edited by Zachary Lockman & Joel Beinin. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 1989. 423pp. Pb.£5.95. ISBN 1–85043–247–3.

ISLAMIC LAW IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST. By Aharon Layish. Occasional Paper 3, Centre of Near East and African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, April 1989. 6pp. n.p. ISSN 0954–1489.

THE ARAB‐ISRAELI DILEMMA. By Fred J. Khouri. Third Edition, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1985. 605pp. Pb.$15.95. ISBN 0–8156–2340–2.     

The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism Translated by Julia Annas &; Jonathan Barnes Cambridge University Press 1994 ISBN‐0–521–30950–6 Hardback (£32.50) ISBN 0–521–31205‐X Paperback (£10.95)

Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society 1649–1776 David Wootton (ed) Stanford University Press, 1994 viii, 497 pp. £35 ISBN 0804723567

John Marshall: John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility Cambridge University Press, 1994 Pp. xxi + 485. ISBN 0–521–44380–6 (hardback) £55 0–521–44687–3 (paperback) £22.95

Ian Harris: The Mind of John Locke: A Study of Political Theory in its Intellectual Setting Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 Pp. xv + 429. ISBN 0–521–35603–2

Lawrence E. Klein: Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness Cambridge University Press, xii, 217 pp. £30

Cahiers Montesquieu: Lectures de Montesquieu, Actes du Colloque de Wolfenbuttel (26–28 Octobre 1989) réunis par Edgar Mass et Alberto Postigliola Liguori Editore, Napoli; Universitas, Paris; Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1993. ISBN 0–7294–0462–5. £18.00

George Armstrong Kelly: The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism with a foreword by Stephen R. Graubard, Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0–521–41227–7. £35.00

Christopher J. Berry: The Idea of Luxury. A Conceptual and Historical Investigation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 xiv + 271 pp., 0–521–466911 pbk

Sarah Gibbons: Kant's Theory of Imagination. Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience Oxford Philosophical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994 pp. 205 plus x. £27.50

Andrew Brook: Kant and the Mind Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. pp. 327 plus xii. £35.00

The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte trans. and ed. by Oscar A. Haac New Brunswick (USA) and London: Transaction Publishers, 1995 pp. xxvi + 403. £31.95 ISBN 1–56000–148–8

Alan P. F. Sell: Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief University of Wales Press, 1995 ISBN 0–7083–1310–8. 338 pp. £35.00

Agnosticism: Contemporary Responses to Spencer and Huxley Ed. Andrew Pyle Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1995 (Key Issues 4), pp. xxvi + 301 ISBN (paper) 1–85506–404–9 £14.95, (cloth) 1–85506–405–7 £45.00     

Book reviews

John Christian Laursen (ed.). Religious Toleration: ‘The Variety of Rites’ from Cyrus to Defoe. New York, St Martin's Press, 1999. xx + 252 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–312–22233–5.

Daniel Garber. Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, £40.00 hb; £14.95 pb. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0–521–00337–7 pb. 0–521–80279–2 hb.

Olli Koistinen and John Biro (eds). Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 255 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–512815‐X.

Paul Abela. Kant's Empirical Realism. Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press, 2002. vii + 303 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–924274–7.

Bruce L. Kinzer. England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question. Toronto, Buffalo, and London, University of Toronto Press, 2001. 292 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8020–4862–5.

Maria Dimova‐Cookson. T. H. Green's Moral and Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Perspective. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001. £40.00. xiii + 175 pp. ISBN 0–333–9144–7.

Stephen Mulhall. Inheritance &; Originality. Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001. £40.00. xii + 448 pp. ISBN 0–19–924390–5.

Paul Gorner. Twentieth‐Century German Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. iii + 225 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0–19–289309–2.

Karen Green. Dummett: Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. xi + 236 pp. £55.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0–7456–2294–1 (hb) 0–7456–2295‐X (pb).     

Reviews

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion, John D. Caputo, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1997. The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion, xxix + 374 pp. ISBN 0–253–21112–3 (pbk.)

Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction, Alan Aldridge, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2000. vii, 232 pp. ISBN 0–7456–2083–3

The Anthropology of Religion, Fiona Bowie, Oxford, Blackwell. 1999. 284pp, tables & bibliogr. ISBN 0–631 20848–8 (pbk)

Theorizing about Myth, Robert Segal, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. 184pp. Cloth £45, paper £15. ISBN 1–558–49194–5 (hbk), 1–558–49191–0 (pbk)     

Book notes

Longman Guide to Living Religions. Ian Harris, Stuart Mews, Paul Morris & John Shepherd, eds., 1994 Harlow, Essex: Longman Group 278 pp., £13.95 ISBN 0–582–25297–0.

Rúmi: Poet and Mystic. Reynold A. Nicholson, 1995 Oxford: Oneworld Publications 190 pp., £6.95 ISBN 1–85168–096–9

The Essentials of Mysticism & Other Essays. Evelyn Underhill, 1995 Oxford: Oneworld Publications 196 pp., £5.95 ISBN 1–85168–060–8

Concerning the Inner Life. Evelyn Underhill, 1995 Oxford: Oneworld Publications 96 pp., £3.95 ISBN 1–85168–054–3     

Book reviews

The Popularization of Medicine 1650–1850 Roy Porter (ed.), 1992 London, Routledge pp. x + 296, £50 (hardback) ISBN 0415 07217 4

Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View Bas Van Fraassen, 1991 Clarendon Press, Oxford pp. 558, £17.50 (paperback), ISBN 019 8239807     

Book notes

American Congregations Volume 1: Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities James P. Wind & James W. Lewis, eds., 1998 Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press xi + 712 pp., US$18.00, £14.50 ISBN 0–226–90187–4

Volume 2: New Perspectives in the Study of Congregations James P. Wind & James W. Lewis, eds., 1998 ix + 292 pp., US$13.00, £10.50 ISBN 0–226–90189–0

Religions in the UK: A Multi‐Faith Directory Paul Weller, ed., researched by Eileen Fry and Paul Weller, 1997, 2nd ed. Derby: University of Derby, in association with The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom 750 pp., £29.50 + £3.50 p&p ISBN 0–901437–68–9

The Creation/Evolution Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography James L. Hayward, 1998 Lanham, Md., London: The Scarecrow Press 253 pp., US$37.50 ISBN 0–8108–3386–7

Hemacandra: The Lives of the Jain Elders Richard Fynes, transl., ed., 1998 Oxford: Oxford University Press 280 pp., £6.99 (pb) ISBN 0–19–283227–1

Mystical Theology: The Integrity of Spirituality and Theology Mark A. Mcintosh, 1998 Oxford: Blackwell 246 pp., £50.00, US$62.95 (hb), £15.99, US$26.95 (pb) ISBN 1–55786–906–5 (hb), ISBN 1–55786–907–3 (pb)

Paul: A Critical Life Jerome Murphy‐O'Connor, 1997 Oxford: Oxford University Press 416 pp., £15.00 (pb) ISBN 0–19–285342–2

One Bible Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies Susan E. Gillingham, 1998 London: SPCK 280 pp., £15.99 (pb) ISBN 0–281–04886‐X     

Book reviews and books received

Counselling as a Career Ross, R, 1997 Oxford: Baldrick Press ISBN 0-9530477-0-9 £9-95

Which Psychotherapy?: Leading Exponents Explain their Differences Feltham, C. (Ed.), 1997 London: Sage ISBN 0-8039-7479-5 £12.95

An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy Cohn, H. W., 1997 London: Sage ISBN 0-7619-5-109 £11.99

Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People Copley, B. & Forryan, B., 1997 London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-70010-X (hb); 0-304-70011-8 (pb) £16.99

Counselling in Terminal Care and Bereavement Parkes, C. M., Relf, M. & Couldrick, A., 1996 Leicester: British Psychological Society ISBN 1-85433-178-7 £14.99

The Gains of Listening Feltham, C., 1997 Buckingham: Open University Press ISBN 0-335-19280-7 £18.99     

BOOK REVIEWS

Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche, translated with an introduction and notes by Patrick Riley Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. xviii + 226. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–824832–6

Queen Christina of Sweden and Her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth‐century Philosophical Libertine by Susanna Akerman, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 21 Leiden, E. J. Brill 1991, Pp. xv + 339. $82.86

John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration in Focus edited by John Horton and Susan Mendus, London: Routledge, 1991. Pp. viii + 196. Cloth £35.00 ISBN 0 415 02205 3. Paperback £10.99 ISBN 0 415 06082 6

The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660–1730 J. A. I. Champion Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 268. £35.00 ISBN 0–521–40536 X.

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries edited by John W. Yolton, Rochester, New York: Rochester University Press, 1990. Pp. xx + 539. ISBN 1–878822–02–2.

Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640–1700 Edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 287. £37.50 ISBN 0–521–41095–9.

Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy by John B. Stewart Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0–691–08626–5.

The Enlightenment by Roy Porter (Studies in European History) London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp. xi + 95.

Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 219. £27.50.

D'Artagnan und die Urteilstafel: über ein Ordnungsprinzip der Europäischen Kulturgeschichte (1, 2, 3/4) by Reinhard Brandt Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. ISBN 3–515–05905–0

Frege Philosophy of Mathematics by Michael Dummett London: Duckworth, 1991. Pp. xiii + 331. Price £35. ISBN 0 7156 0886 X.

Pierre Duhem: Philosophy and History in the Work of a Believing Physicist By R. N.’D. Martin La Salle: Open Court, 1991. ISBN 0–8126–9160–1. (Paper) $19.95. ISBN 0–8126–9159–8. (Cloth) $44.95.     

Book notes

Lexikon der Sekten, Sondergruppen und Weltanschauungen: Fakten, Hin‐tergründe, Klärungen, 5th edn. Hans Gasper, Joachim Müller, Friederike Valentin, eds., 1997 Freiburg: Herder 1255 pp., DM 29, 80 (pb) ISBN 3–451–04271–1

Islam: A Very Short Introduction. Mause Ruthven, 1997 Oxford: Oxford University Press 162 pp., £4.99 (pb) ISBN 0–19–285334–1

Religion and the Order of Nature. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 1996 Oxford: Oxford University Press 310 pp., £53.50 (hb), £15.50 (pb) ISBN 0–19510274–6 (hb), ISBN 0–19–510823‐X (pb)

The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argument. Jacob Neusner & Bruce Chilton, 1997 London, New York: Routledge 184 pp., £13.99 (pb) ISBN 0–415–15399–9

The Way Forward? Christian Voices on Homosexuality and the Church. Timothy Bradshaw, ed., 1997 London: Hodder & Stoughton 229 pp., £8.99 (pb) ISBN 0–340–69393–2

Faith in the Revolution: The Political Theologies of Müntzer and Winstanley. Andrew Bradstock, 1997 London: SPCK 210 pp., £17.50 (pb) ISBN 0–281–05067–8

The Reception of the Faith: Reinterpreting the Gospel for Today. Gillian R. Evans, 1997 London: SPCK 229 pp., £15.99 (pb) ISBN 0–281–05092–9

The Bhagavad Gita: A Verse Translation. Geoffrey Parrinder, 1996 Oxford: Oneworld Publications 134 pp., £6.99 (pb) ISBN 1–85168–117–5     

Book review

Raison et déraison d'État. Théoriciens et theories de la raison d'État aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles sous la direction de Yves Charles Zarka Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1994 pp. 436, 248 FF. ISBN 9–782130–461616.

Beverly C. Southgate: ’Covetous of Truth’: The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593–1676 Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. 189 pp. £60.00 ISBN 0–7923–1926–5

George Dicker: Descartes: An Analytical and Historical Introduction Oxford University Press, 1993 (248 pp.) £14.95 pbk. ISBN 0–19–507590–0

Theo Verbeek: Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy, 1637–1650. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1992, x + 168 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0–8093–1617‐X

David Berman: George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man Oxford University Press, 1994. £27.50 ISBN 0–19–826746–0

Joseph Mali: The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's New Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. pp. xv + 275. £35.00 ISBN 0–521–41952–2

R. C. Solomon and K. W. Higgins (eds): The Age of German Idealism Routledge: London, 1993. Pp. 408. £55.00 (hbk) ISBN 0–415–05604–7

T. L. S. Sprigge: James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1993 Pp. xiv + 630. $66.95 (hbk), $29.95 (pbk). ISBN 0–8126–9227–6 (pbk)

A. W. Moore: The Infinite Routledge, London and New York (1990). First published in paperback, 1991. xiv + 268 pp., £10.99 ISBN 0–415–07048–1     

Book reviews

Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience. Peter L. Berger, 1997 Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 216 pp., £13.40 (hb) ISBN 3–11–015562–1

Reflections on Sociology and Theology. David Martin, 1997 Oxford: Clarendon Press viii +257 pp., £30.00 ISBN 0–19–827384–3

Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth‐Century Theology and Philosophy. Stanley Hauerwas, 1997 Oxford: Westview Press/Harper Collins 242 pp., £21.50 (hb) ISBN 0–8133–3349–0

The Longing for Home. Leroy Rouner, ed., 1997 Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 17 Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press 248 pp., US$34.00 (hb) ISBN 0–268–01310–1

The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach. Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Bernard Spilka, Bruce Hunsberger & Richard Gorsuch, 1996, 2nd edition New York, London: Guilford Press 546 pp., US$70.00, £45.00 (hb) ISBN 1–57230–116–3

America's Communal Utopias. Donald E. Pitzer, ed., 1997 Chapel Hill, London: University of North Carolina Press 537 pp., US$60.00 (hb), US$24.95 (pb) ISBN 0–8078–2299‐X (hb), ISBN 0–8078–4609–0 (pb)

Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium. Donald E. Miller, 1997 Los Angeles, CA: California University Press 254 pp, US$ 27.50 (hb) ISBN 0–520–20938–9

Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change since 1970. Mark A. Shibley, 1996 Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press 156 pp., US$24.95 ISBN 1–57003–106–1

Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America. David Lehmann, 1996 Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press xiv +244 pp., £39.50 (hb) ISBN 0–7456–1784–0

The Soul of Development: Biblical Christianity and Economic Transformation in Guatemala. Amy L. Sherman, 1997 Oxford: Oxford University Press 224 pp., £37.99 ISBN 0–19–510671–7

Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Diane J. Austin‐Broos, 1997 With a Foreword by Raymond T. Smith Chicago; The University of Chicago Press 328 pp., US$19.95, £15.95 (pb), US$50.00, £39.95 (hb) ISBN 0–226–03286–8 (pb), ISBN 0–226–03284–1 (hb)

Black God: The Afro‐Asian Roots of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Religions. Julian Baldick, 1997 London, New York: I.B.Tauris 198 pp., £39.50 (hb) ISBN 1–86064–123–7

Image of the Prophet Muhammad in the West: A Study of Muir, Margoliouth and Watt. Jabal Muhammad Buaben, 1996/1417 AH. Markfield: The Islamic Foundation 394p., £ 9.50 (pb); £19.50 (hb) ISBN 0–86037–261–8 (pb), ISBN 0–86037–260‐X (hb)

New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, No. 41 Elisabeth Arweck & Peter B. Clarke, 1997 Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press xliii + 381 pp., £71.50 (hb) ISBN 0–313–24324–7

The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity. Paul Heelas, 1996 Oxford: Blackwell 266 pp., £45.00, US$49.95 (hb); £13.99; US$21.95 (pb) ISBN 0–631–19331–6 (hb), ISBN 0–631–19332–4 (pb)

New Age Religion and Western Culture. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, 1996 Leiden & New York: E. J. Brill 580 pp., NLG 235.00, US$ 147.50 (hb), NLG 80.00, US$51.75 (pb) ISBN 90–04–10695–2 (hb), ISBN 90–04–10696–0 (pb)

Embers of Wan Letters from a Quaker Relief Worker in War‐Torn Germany. Grigór McClelland, 1997 London: British Academic Press 230 pp., £25.00 (hb) ISBN 8–6064–312–4

Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ. William A. Christian Jr., 1996 Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press xxii + 544 pp. £32.00 ISBN 0–520–20040–3

The Topography of Remembrance: The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia. Gerdien Jonker, 1995 Leiden: E. J. Brill xiii + 284 pp., c. £66.00 ISBN 90–04–10162–4

Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. Susan Paul Pattie, 1997 Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press 282 pp., £38.25 ISBN 1–56098–629–8

The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society. Tanya M. Luhrmann, 1996 Cambridge, MA & London, England: Harvard University Press xi +317 pp., £33.50 (hb), £15.50 (pb) ISBN 0–674–35675–6 (hb), ISBN 0–674–35676–4 (pb)

The Feast of the Sorcerer Practices of Consciousness and Power. Bruce Kapferer, 1997 Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press 367 pp., US$65.00, £51.95 (hb), US$27.50, £21.95 (pb) ISBN 0–226–42411–1 (hb), ISBN 1–226–42413–8 (pb)

Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth. P.F. Kornicki & I.J. McMullen, eds., 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press xxv +315 pp., £40.00, US$59.95 ISBN 0–521–55028–9

Teaching Right and Wrong: Moral Education in the Balance. Richard Smith & Paul Standish, eds., 1997 Stoke on Trent, England: Trentham Books 157 pp., £13.95 (pb) ISBN 1–85856–084–5     

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas. John I. Jenkins. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. pp. 267. £35.00 hb. ISBN 0–521–58126–5. The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. pp. 302. £12.95 pb. ISBN 0–521–43769–5. The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas's Natural Theology in the Summa Contra Gentiles I. Norman Kretzmann. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997. pp. 302. £35.00 hb. ISBN 0–19–823660–3. Thomas Aquinas: God and Explanations. C. F. J. Martin. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1997. pp. 212. £40.00 hb. ISBN 0–7486–0901–6. Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages. Robert Pasnau. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. pp. 330. £37.00 hb. ISBN 0–521–58368–3.