BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Avner Falk. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 271 pp. Reviewed by Peter Suedfeld University of British Columbia
Beneath the Crust of Culture. By Howard Stein. Amsterdam & New York: Radopi, 2004. 137 pp. Reviewed by Micha Popper University of Haifa, Israel
Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions Within Communication Networks. By Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson and John Sprague. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 249 pp. Reviewed by James S. Fishkin Stanford University
International Relations Under Risk: Framing State Choice. By Jeffrey D. Berejikian. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. 151 pp. The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, and Loyalty. By Alexander Moens. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. 227 pp. Reviewed by Jean Garrison University of Wyoming     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion . By James L. Gibson and Amanda Gouws. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. 262 pp. Reviewed by David B. Coplan University of the Witwatersrand
The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression . By Robert E. Gilbert. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2003. 288 pp. Reviewed by Donald F. Anderson University of Michigan-Dearborn
Affirmative Action is Dead; Long Live Affirmative Action . By Faye J. Crosby. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2004. 331 pp. Reviewed by John F. Dovidio University of Connecticut
Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War . By Steve Yetiv. Balitmore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 304 pp. Reviewed by J. David Singer University of Michigan     

BRIEFLY NOTED

Books reviewed:
Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development. By Marco Calavita. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2005. 285 pp. Reviewed by Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago
Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life. By Katherine Cramer Walsh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. 292 pp.Reviewed by Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
French negotiating behavior. Dealing with la grande nation. By Charles Cogan. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace. 2003. 345 pp. Reviewed by Stanley Hoffmann Harvard University
Revitalizing Political Psychology. The Legacy of Harold D. Lasswell. By William Ascher and Barbera Hirschfelder-Ascher. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2003. 197 pp.
Models of a Man. Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon. Edited by Mie Augier and James G. March. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 2004. 553 pp. Reviewed by Robert S. Robins Tulane University
The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures: Going Beyond Words. Edited by Valerie Manusov. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2005. 540 pp. Reviewed by Jarol B. Manheim The George Washington University
The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust. By Kristen R. Monroe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2004. 361 pp. Reviewed by Stephen Reysen California State University, Fresno and Faye J. Crosby University of California, Santa Cruz     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State. By Andrea Louise Campbell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2003. 229 pp. Reviewed by Kay Lehman Schlozman Boston College
Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India. By Steven I Wilkinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. 310 pp. Reviewed by Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy. By Peter Hays Gries. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2004. 215 pp. Reviewed by Lowell Dittmer University of California at Berkeley
Framing Public Memory. Edited by Kendall R. Phillips. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 2004. 269 pp. Reviewed by Jill A. Edy University of Oklahoma
Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery. By Jeffrey W. Taliaferro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2004. 304 pp. Reviewed by Charles S. Taber Stony Brook University     

Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population

Books reviewed:
Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population. By Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2004. 400 pp. Reviewed by Rose McDermott University of California, Santa Barbara     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
William T. Cavanaugh, Theopolitical Imagination . Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002, 126pp. £12.99 pb., £35.00 hb. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Murphy King's College, London
Sarah Coakley, ed., Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa . Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, 137pp. £17.99 Reviewed by Ivor J. Davidson University of Otago
Paul M. Collins, Trinitarian Theology, West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xiv + 251pp. £40.00 Reviewed by Demetrios Bathrellos London
Adam Hood, Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, 226pp. £47.50 hb. Reviewed by John Flett Princeton Theological Seminary
Donald K. McKim, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, £16.99 pb. Reviewed by Graham Tomlin Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004, 330 pp., $35.00 / £24.99 Reviewed by Dustin Resch Briercrest College and Seminary Caronport, Saskatchewan, Canada
Peter Scott, A Political Theology of Nature . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 275pp. £47.50 hb., £17.95 pb. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Murphy King's College, London
Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 368pp. £22.95 Reviewed by Rod Taylor Oxford
Stephan van Erp, The Art of Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith . Leuven: Peeters, 2004, 297pp., $40 Reviewed by Brian Horne London
Nigel Voak, Richard Hooker and Reformed Theology: A Study of Reason, Will, and Grace , Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xviii + 348pp. £53.00 Reviewed by Rowan A. Greer New Haven, Connecticut     

Suggestions for an Improved M-Limits Technique

Abstract

Bennett, Edward. Personality Assessment and Diagnosis. New York: Ronald Press, 1961 Reviewed by Theodore H. Blau

Honkavaara, Sylvia, The psychology of expression, Cambridge University Press, 1961; British Journal of Psychology, Monograph XXXII, pp. 96. $4.50 Reviewed by Hal M. Wells

Sherman, M. H. (ed.) A Rorschach Reader. New York: International Universities Press, 1960. $7.50. Reviewed by Melvin A. Gravitz, Ph.D.     

The Psychology of Closed Mindedness – Arie W. Kruglanski

Books reviewed:
The Psychology of Closed Mindedness. Arie W. Kruglanski. New York: Psychology Press, 2004. 192 pp.     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward , T.W. Bartel (ed.), SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05474‐6), pp. xv +208, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Elizabeth J Harris
University of Birmingham One Scripture or Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological and Philosophical Perspectives , Christine Helmer and Christof Landmesser (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925863‐5), pp. xi + 249, Hb £50
Reviewed by Walter Moberly
University of Durham A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic , Kenneth Cragg, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐012‐2), pp. xv + 145, Pb £12.95
Reviewed by Douglas Pratt
University of Waikato, New Zealand Fifty Key Christian Thinkers , Peter McEnhill and George Newlands, Routledge Key Guides, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐17050‐8), pp. xi + 297, £12.99
Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston
University of Birmingham Athanasius , Khaled Anatolios, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐0202‐7), pp. viii + 293, Hb £50 Tertullian , Geoffrey D. Dunn, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐8231‐4), pp. viii + 200, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century , Beth Kreitzer, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516654‐X), pp. xi + 229, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 , Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf (eds), Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐81493‐6) pp. ix + 234, Hb £40
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century , Alan P.F. Sell and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Paternoster Press 2003 (1‐84227‐221‐7) pp. x + 398, Pb £24.99/$39.99
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture , Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Religion and American Culture Series, Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐12640‐9), pp. xxiv + 326, Hb £24.50/$35
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills, Jr.
Florida State University The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar , Edward T. Oakes SJ and David Moss (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐89147‐7), pp. xviii + 282, Pb £16.99/$25.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Paths to Unity: Explorations in Ecumenical Method , Paul Avis (ed.), Church House Publishing 2004 (0‐7151‐5768‐X), pp. viii + 152, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham In the End – the Beginning: The Life of Hope , Jürgen Moltmann, SCM / Fortress 2004 (0‐8006‐3656‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £14.99/$17
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh From Cells to Souls – and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature , Malcolm Jeeves (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0985‐5), pp. xiv + 252, Pb $29
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago Seeking God In All Things: Theology and Spiritual Direction , William Reiser, Liturgical Press 2004 (0‐8146‐5166‐6), xii + 172, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by Revd Barry J. Linney
Cherry Hinton, St. Andrew’s, Cambridge Sounding the Silence , John Skinner, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐589‐X), pp. xiv + 120, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham     

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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Biblical and Near Eastern Essays – Studies in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart , Carmel McCarthy and John F. Healey (eds.), JSOTS Series 375, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6690‐7), pp. xix + 376, Hb £75
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation , Gerrit Scott Dawson, T&T Clark, 2004 (0‐567‐08221‐0), pp. xiii + 255, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church , Edward Adams and David G. Horrell (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2004 (0‐664‐22478‐4), pp. xvi + 332, Pb $39.95
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham The Works of Mercy: The Heart of Catholicism , James F. Keenan, SJ, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 (ISBN 0‐7425‐3220‐8), pp. 118, pb $55.00
Reviewed by Bernadette McNary‐Zak
Rhodes College The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Post‐modern Faith In Honor of James H. Olthuis , James K.A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, editors, Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, 2004, 272 pp. $34.99
Reviewed by Christopher Daniel‐Smith
Loyola Marymount University Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies: A Reader , Edited by William K. Kay and Anne Dyer, SCM Press 2004 (ISBN 0‐334‐02940‐6), pp. xxxiii + 332, Pb £25.00
Reviewed by Robert Cornwall
Santa Barbara, CA Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality , Andrew W. Hass, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0868‐9), pp. xii + 184, Hb £47.50/$94.95
Reviewed by Brannon Hancock
University of Glasgow Modern Judaism. An Oxford Guide , Edited by Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud‐Kandel, Oxford University Press 2005 (ISBN 0‐19‐926287‐X), pp. ix + 459, Pb £22.95
Reviewed by Silviu Bunta
Marquette University An Introduction to Christianity , Linda Woodhead, Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐521‐45445‐X, Pb 0‐521‐78655‐X,), pp. viii + 439, Hb £45, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael A. Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians , Frederick J. Long, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 131, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐84233‐6), pp. xix + 291, Hb £50/$80
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham The Mystery of Mary , Paul Haffner, Gracewing/Hillenbrand Books 2004 (UK 0‐85244‐650‐0; US 1‐59525‐008‐5), pp. xiv + 285, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Teresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life , Shirley du Boulay, DLT 2004 (0‐232‐52589‐7), pp. xi + 292, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire A Monastic Renaissance at St. Albans : Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c. 1350–1440 , James A. Clark, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, ISBN 0‐19‐927595‐5, pp. xi + 316, Hb £55.00
Reviewed by David Lohr
Hickory, North Carolina The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin , Donald McKim (ed), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐01672‐X), pp. xvii + 352, Pb £17.99/$24.99
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, Michigan In Search of the Catholic Spirit: Methodists and Roman Catholics in dialogue , David M. Chapman, Epworth Press 2004 (0‐7162‐0588‐2), pp. xviii + 312, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester le Street, County Durham King, Priest and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement , Robert Sherman, Theology for the Twenty‐first Century, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐02560‐8) xi + 291, Pb £22
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity , Carl Raschke, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2751‐9), pp. 215, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Borden Painter
Trinity College (Connecticut) A.J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist , Religion in America Series, R.G. Robins, New York, Oxford University P 2004 (0‐19‐516591‐8), pp. x + 316, Hb £27.50/$45.00
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills Jr.
Florida State University Emerging Evangelism , John Finney, Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004 (0‐232‐52496‐3), pp. 178, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung
Los Angeles, California Tractarians and the ‘Condition of England’: The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement , S.A. Skinner, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927323‐5), pp. x + 330, Hb £55
Reviewed by Denis Paz
University of North Texas A Different World Is Possible , Luiz Carlos Susin, Jon Sobrino, and Felix Wilfred, eds., London: SCM Press, 2004 (0‐334‐03081‐1), pp. 140, Pb £10.50
Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung
Los Angeles, California The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant , Edwin Bryant and Maria Ekstrand (eds), Columbia UP 2004 (0 231 12256 X), pp. 448, Pb. $49.50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers Association Rethinking Religion: A Concise Introduction , Will Deming, Oxford University Press, 2005, (ISBN 0‐19‐516981‐6), pp. xi + 157, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Jane Compson
University of Central Florida Church, State and Civil Society , David Fergusson, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Hb 0‐521‐82239‐4, Pb 0‐521‐52959‐X), pp. vii + 213, Hb £40/$70, Pb £16.99/ $24.99
Reviewed by David Grumett
Exeter The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality , Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐1958‐6, Pb 1‐4051‐12959‐4), pp. xii + 204, Hb £50, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Transformative Imagination: Rethinking Intercultural Theology , George Newlands, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3827‐8), pp. ix + 195, Hb £45
Reviewed by David Grumett
Exeter Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire , Brian Stanley (ed), Studies in the History of Christian Missions, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2116‐2), pp. 313, Hb £32.99/$45
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School Food for the Soul , Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro (eds.), Seabury Books 2004 (ISBN 1‐59627‐001‐2), pp. xxv + 242, Pb $18.00
Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz
Augusta State University Gay Unions In the Light of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason , Gray Temple, Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0‐89869‐457‐4), pp. 174, Pb $20.00
Reviewed by Randall Woodard
Silver Spring, MD A Brief History of Death , Douglas J. Davies, Blackwell 2005 (Pb 1‐4051‐0183‐0, Hb 1‐4051‐0182‐2), pp. xi + 184, Pb £12.99, Hb £40
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham A Fitting End: Making the Most of a Funeral , Hugh James, Canterbury Press Norwich 2004 (ISBN 1‐85311‐602‐5), pp. xi + 179, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien
Loyola University Chicago My Life and My Death: A Priest Confronts His Cancer , Jeffrey T. Simmons, New York: Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0‐89869‐445‐0), pp. 17 + 140, pb $14.00
Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien
Loyola University Chicago In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason , Kim Paffenroth, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1603‐9), pp. xvi + 160, Hb £22
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland. New Zealand Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics , S. Brent Plate, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐96992‐1), pp. xv + 171, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Gaye Ortiz
Augusta State University Science and Theology since Copernicus: The Search for Understanding , Peter Barrett, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08970‐3), pp. 208, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy William James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience , Wayne Proudfoot (ed.), Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐13204‐2), pp. vii + 138, Hb £22.50/$34.50
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , William James, Centenary Edition, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27809‐0), pp. lxiii + 415, Hb £16.99/$18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Discovering Girard , Michael Kirwan, Darton, Longman, and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52526‐9), pp. 137, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7308-5), xiv + 434 pp., pb $24.95
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 2: 1839–2004 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7309-3), xiv + 575 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Nirmal Singh Hindu University of America
Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion , Megan McKenna, Seabury Books 2004 (1-59627-006-3), xi + 211 pp., pb $16 Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong Baylor University
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion , Anthony C. Thiselton, Baker Academic 2005 (0-8010-3120-6), viii + 344 pp., pb $24.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University West
The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 , David F. Ford, Rachel Muers (eds), Blackwells 2005 (1-4051-0277-2), xxi + 819 pp., pb £19.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge     

Books

Maccurdy, J. T. Common Principles In Psychology And Physiology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1928. Pp. Xvii + 284. Reviewed by James Drever.

Brasol, B. The Elements Of Crime. New York: Oxford University Press, 1927. Pp. Xi + 433. $5.00. Reviewed by Carl Murchison

Luckiesh, M. Foundations Of The Universe. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1925. Pp. Vii + 245. $3.00. Reviewed by Carl Murchison

Watson, J. B. Psychological Care Of Infant And Child. New York: Norton, 1928. Pp. 195. $2.00. Reviewed by M. Goodrie

Herskovits, M. J. The American Negro. New York: Knopf, 1928. Pp. Xiv + 92. $2.00 Reviewed by Carl Murchison

Rickman, J. Index Psychoanalyticus. London: Hogarth, 1928. Pp. 276. 18S. Reviewed by Carl Murchison     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: The Paganism Reader , Chas S. Clifton and Graham Harvey (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30353‐2), pp. xi + 387, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury Give Me That Online Religion , Brenda Brasher, Rutgers University Press 2004 (0‐8135‐3436‐4), pp. xiv + 203, Pb $21.95
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief , Richard C. Prust, Rodopi 2004 (90‐420‐1088‐6), pp. 130, Pb €30/$39
Reviewed by William Schweitzer
University of Edinburgh God, Evil, and Ethics. A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion , Eric v.d. Luft, Gegensatz Press 2004 (0‐9655179‐1‐8), pp. viii + 264, Pb $14.95
Reviewed by Russell Re Manning
University of Cambridge Honouring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales. Essays in Honour of Gareth Lloyd Jones , Robert Pope (ed.), Gracewing 2003 2003 (0‐85244‐401‐X), pp. xviii + 278, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Dr. Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Treasures Old and New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch , Joseph Blenkinsopp, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2679‐2), pp. x + 228, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel , William M. Schniedewind, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82946‐1), pp. xiii + 257, Hb £25/$28
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence , Martin Laird, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926799‐5), pp. xii + 240, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Martin Heale, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 22, The Boydell Press 2004 (1‐84383‐054X), pp. xvii + pp. 378, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Carolyn Muessig
University of Bristol Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe , Liz Herbert McAvoy, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5, D.S. Brewer 2004 (1‐84384‐008‐1), pp. ix + 276, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Kevin Magill
University of Bristol Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein , Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain (eds), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02923‐6), pp. xiv + 286, Pb £35
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology , Gareth Jones (ed.), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐20685‐X), pp. xx + 586, Hb £85/$134.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures , Grace Davie, Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead (eds), Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3010‐2), pp. xii + 253, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Hugh McLeod
University of Birmingham Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of the Saints , Elizabeth A. Johnson, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1473‐7) pp. xvii + 379, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical , John Haldane, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐20703‐7), pp. xv + 288, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute, Melbourne Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa , Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Hurst and Company 2004 (1‐85065‐734‐3), vii +263, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire , Michael Northcott, I.B. Tauris 2004 (1‐85043‐478‐6), pp. 200, Hb £19.50
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Volume One: Foundations of Violence , Grace M. Jantzen, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐29033‐3), pp. x + 390, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace , Simon Fisher, Quaker Books, 2004 (0‐85245‐357‐4), pp. 123, Pb £9.00
Reviewed by K. Alan Jung
Biola University Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens , Bernd Wannenwetsch, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925387‐0), pp. xiv + 402, Hb £75
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice , Frank G. Kirkpatrick, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐3156‐7, Pb 0‐7546‐3157‐5), pp. 201 + xii, Hb £47.50/Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course, Durham Free Time: Towards a Theology of Leisure , Graham Neville, University of Birmingham Press 2004 (1‐902459‐21‐0), pp. viii + 162, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking , Paul D. Janz, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82241‐6), pp. xi + 232, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Grassroots Spirituality: What It Is, Why It Is Here, Where It Is Going , Robert Forman, Imprint Academic 2004 (0‐907845‐681), pp. vii + 231, Pb £14.95?$29.90
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Theory For Religious Studies , William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96639‐6), pp. xv + 168, Pb £10.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury René Girard: Violence and Mimesis , Chris Fleming, Key Contemporary Thinkers, Polity Press 2004 (0‐7456‐2948‐2), pp. xii + 211, Pb £15.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought , Margaret R. Miles, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐0845‐2, Pb 1‐4051‐0846‐0), pp. xxiv + 435, Hb £60/Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire , Iain Gardner and Samuel N.C. Lieu (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐5215‐6090‐X, Pb 0‐5215‐6822‐6), pp. xviii + 312, Hb £50/Pb £19.95
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris , Barbara B. Diefendorf, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐509582‐0), pp. ix + 340, Hb £36.50
Reviewed by Stephen Morris
New York Calvin's Christology , Stephen Edmondson, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54154‐9), pp. xiv + 248, Hb $70/Pb $25.99
Reviewed by R. Ward Holder
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH Honest to God: 40 Years On , Colin Slee (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02939‐2), pp. xiv + 160, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions , George Sumner, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2498‐6), pp. vi + 219, Hb £17.95/$26
Reviewed by Revd Barry Linney
Cherry Hinton St. Andrew, Cambridge Bound to Be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism Reinhard Hütter, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2750‐0), pp. x + 313, Pb £18.99/$28
Reviewed by Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition , Christopher J. Ellis, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02967‐8), pp. viii + 327, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, County Durham Mission Implausible: Restoring Credibility to the Church , Duncan McLaren, Paternoster Press 2004 (1‐8422‐7295‐0), pp. 214, Hb £15.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet , Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97022‐9), pp. vii + 279, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury The Way it Was: The Narrative of the Birth of Jesus , Matthew Byrne, Columba Press 2004 (1‐85607‐463‐3), pp. 178, Pb £7.99/€11.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium , Peter Coleman, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02956‐2), pp. xii + 234, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Randall Jay Woodard
Silver Spring, Maryland Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalization , Mary C. Grey, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02928‐7), pp. xii + 260, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life , William Schweiker and Charles T. Mathewes (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐24846), pp. ix + 242, Pb £25.99/ $36
Reviewed by Richard Nagle
Heythrop College, London A Time of Waiting: Images and Insights , Anne Thurston, Columba 2004 (1‐85607‐471‐4), pp. 93, Pb £6.99/€ 9.99 The Rosary in Space and Time , Ruth Rees, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐610‐1), pp. xiv + 140, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire     

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.     

Wittgenstein and Scepticism Wittgenstein at Work: Method in the PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

Books reviewed:
Wittgenstein and Scepticism , Denis McManus (ed.). London & New York: Routledge, 2004. xi, 305 pp. $50 hb. Wittgenstein at Work: Method in the PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS , Erich Ammereller and Eugen Fischer (eds.). London & New York: Routledge, 2004. xxix, 263 pp. $50 hb. Reviewed by William H. Brenner, Old Dominion University Philosophy Department Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529-0083, USA wbrenner@odu.edu     

Stimulus Properties of the Blacky Pictures Test

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Buss, A. H. Psychology of Aggression. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1961, Pp. X + 307, $7.95. Reviewed by Leonard D. Eron

Eiduson, Bernice T. Scientists—their psychological world. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1962. pp. 299, $6.50. Reviewed by John R. Weir

Ginott, Haim G. Group Psychotherapy with Children. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961, pp. 208. Reviewed by Gordon Filmer-Bennett

Holtzman, Wayne H., Thorpe, Joseph S., Swartz, Jon D., &; Herron, E. Wayne Inkblot perception and personality. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. 417 pp. $8.00. Reviewed by A. Barclay, Ph.D.

Ittelson, William H., Kutash, Samuel B., ed: Perceptual Changes in Psychopathology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1961. 262 pp. $9.00. Reviewed by Donald L. Weston

Levitt, E. E. Clinical Research Design and Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1961, pp. 199–xxii. $8.50. Reviewed by Wilson H. Guertin

Lindzey, Gardner. Projective Techniques &; Cross-Cultural Research. Published by Appleton, Century-Crofts, Inc., N.Y., 1961, 339 pp., $6.00. Reviewed by Sohan Lal Sharma, Ph.D.

Clifton, James A. and Levine, David. Klamath Personalities: Ten Rorschach Case Studies, University of Oregon Press, Eugene, 1961, 80 pp. Reviewed by Sohan Lal Sharma, Ph.D.