Book Reviews

Book reviewed:
Pamela E. Klassen, Blessed Events: Religion And Home Birth In America
James V. Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire (eds.), Personal Knowledge And Beyond: Reshaping The Ethnography Of Religion
Jayne Seminare Docherty, Learning Lessons From Waco: When The Parties Bring Their Gods To The Negotiation Table
Joseph B. Tamney, The Resilience Of Conservative Religion: The Case Of Popular Conservative Protestant Congregations
Paula D. Nesbitt (ed.), Religion And Social Policy
Ann Burlein, Lift High The Cross: Where White Supremacy And The Christian Right Converge
Grant Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals And American Culture
Arlene Stein, The Stranger Next Door: The Story Of A Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, And Civil Rights     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Kathryn Tanner: Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology
Charles Marsh: God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
John D. Caputo: The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
David Toole: Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy and Apocalypse
George R. Hunsberger: Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality
Peter Ochs: Peirce, Pragmatism and the Logic of Scripture
Elizabeth A. Johnson: Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints
Stephen H. Webb: On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals
Elizabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza: Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context
Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs and Robert Gibbs: Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy
Stephen L. Brock: Action and Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action
Emmanuel Levinas: Of God Who Comes to Mind
Timothy Houston Polk: The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of Faith
Robert Barron: And Now I See … A Theology of Transformation
Stephen Crites: Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking
John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward (eds): Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology     

Book Reviews

Books reviwed:
Steve Bruce, God is Dead: Secularization in the West
Sarah Coakley, Powers And Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender
Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas and David Martin, Peter Berger and the Study Of Religion
Ted Gerard Jelen and Clyde Wilcox, Religion And Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Christian Smith, Christian America? What Evangelicals really want Nancy Eiesland, A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Suburb Janet Duitsman Cornelius, Slave Missions and The Black Church in the Antebellum South Linda Boynton Arthur, (ed) Religion, Dress and The Body William M. Newman and Peter L. Halvorson, Atlas of American Religion: The De‐nominational Era Michael P. Carroll, Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Pop‐ular Catholic Devotion Paul Eli Ivey, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in The United States, 1894‐1930 Andrew Greeley, The Catholic Imagination R. Scott Appleby, The Ambivalence Of The Sacred: Re‐Ligion, Violence, And Reconciliation Ana María Díaz‐Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens‐Arroyo, Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.S. Religion Wendy Griffin, (ed) Daughters Of The Goddess: Studies Of Healing, Identity, And Empowerment Carole Bell Ford, The Girls: Jewish Women Of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940‐1995 Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson, (eds) What Is Religion? Origins, Definitions, And Explanations Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter, (eds) Max Weber And Islam Wade Clark Roof, Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers And The Remaking Of American Religion James A. Wellman, The Gold Coast Church And The Ghetto: Christ And Culture In Main‐Line Protestantism Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror In The Mind Of God     

The Return of Religion to North American Public Education?

Books reviewed:
Jon H. Roberts and James Turner, The Sacred and Secular University
D. G. Hart, The University Gets Religion, Religious Studies in American Higher Education
Russell T. McCutcheon, Manufacturing Religion, The Discourse of Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia     

Book Reviews

Robert A. Hinde, Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion
Charles Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds), The Faces of Buddhism in America
Janet Bennion, Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormonism
Robert A. Segal, Theorizing About Myth
Clifford A. Grammich, Jr., Local Baptists, Local Politics: Churches and Communities in the Middle and Uplands South
Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and theNew Thought Movement,1875–1920
Robert A. Orsi (ed), Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape
Jon R. Stone (ed), The Craft of Religious Studies
Penny Edgell Becker, Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life
Lorne L. Dawson, Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, (eds) Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field
Peter McDonough and Eugene Bianchi. Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits
Amanda Porterfield, The Transformation Of American Religion: The Story of a Late-Twen-Tieth Century Awakening
Dean R. Hoge, William D. Dinges, Mary Johnson, S.N.D. de N., and Juan L. Gonzalez, Jr., Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Keith Ward, God: A Guide for the Perplexed
A. James Reimer, Paul Tillich: Theologian of Nature, Culture, and Politics
Rodney Stark, For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts and the End of Slavery
Kenneth N. Stevenson, Abba Father: Understanding and Using the Lord's Prayer
Kenneth N. Stevenson, The Lord's Prayer: A Text Tradition
Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious Right in American Politics
Michael Corbett and Julia Mitchell Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Eighth Century Phophets by B.W. Anderson
Struggle And Fulfillment: The Inner Dynamics of Religion and Morality by Donald Evans.
The Gospel According To St John, Vol II by Rudolf Schnackenburg, Tranelsted by C. Hastings, F. McDonagh, D. smith and R. Foley S. J. Herder's
Groundwork Of Biblical Studies bt W. David Stacey, Epworth Press
The Way Of The Preacher by Simon Tugwell O.P. darton, Longman & todd
Historical Criticism and Theological Interpretation Of Scripture: Towards a Hermeneutics of Consent by Peter Stuhlmacher.
Households Of God by David Parry O.S.B.
The English Benedictines 1540–1688 by David Lunn.
The English Benedictine Congregation by Dom Bernard Green.
Benedict's Disciples, edited by David Hugh Farmer.
Community And Abbot In The Rule Of Saint Benedict by Adalbert de.
St Francis Of Assisi, Omnibus Of Sources ed. Marion A. Habig.
The Nine Ways Of Prayer Of Saint Dominic, edited and translated by Simon Tugwell O P with lin drawings by Sheelagh Wilsden O. P.     

Book Reviews

A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States , by Helen A. Berger
Religion in the News:Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse , by Stewart M. Hoover
Seventh-Day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change inan Emerging Religion , by Laura L. Vance
Prophetic Pentecostalism in Chile: A Case Study on Religion and Development Policy , by Franz Kamsteeg
Process, Praxis, and Transcendence , by James L. Marsh
Sociology and the World's Religions , by Malcolm Hamilton
American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving , by Christian Smith
Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of West IndianReligion , by Wallace W. Zane
Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion And Religious Aspects of Organizations , edited by N.J. Demerath III, Peter Dobkin Hall, Terry Schmitt, and Rhys H. Williams
The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns , by Robert A. Emmons
Becoming Religious: Understanding Devotion to the Unseen , by Susan Kwilecki
     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Man and his Salvation: Studies in Memory of S. G. F. Brandon. Edited by E ric J. S harpe and J ohn R. H innells .
Religion in Ancient History: Studies in Ideas, Men and Events. By S. G. F. B randon .
The Attractiveness of God. By R. P. C. H anson .
Christian Celebration: The Sacraments. By J. D. C richton .
La Confirmation: sens et conjoncture oecuménique hier et aujourd'hui. By L ouis L igier .
Christian Marriage in Africa: A Report , By A drian H astings .
The Priesthood of Man. By A nthony D. D uncan .
The Christian Priest: Elder and Prophet. By D avid N. P ower .
Les Dieux Rêvés. By H. D esroche .
Politics, Medicine, and Christian Ethics. By C harles E. C urran .
Essays on the Freedom of Action. Edited by T ed H onderich .
Problems of the Self. By B ernard W illiams .
The Nature of Things. By A nthony Q uinton .
The Existence of Cod. (Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Volume XLVI.) Edited by G eorge F. M aclean , o.m.i.
Analogy. By H umphrey P almer .
Modes of Thought. Essays on Thinking in Western and Non- Western Societies. Edited with an introduction by R obin H orton and R uth F innegan .
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Volume II. By S usanne K. L anger .
Psyche and Cerebrum. By J ohn N. F indlay .
Existential Guilt; a Phenomenological Study. By D onald V. M orano .
The Existential Experience. By R alph H arper .
Fractured Personalities. By G ary C ollins .
Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. By H. H. P rice .
Religions of the Ancient Near East. By H elmer R inggren .
History of Israelite Religion. By G eorg F ohrer .
Religion in Judah under the Assyrians. By J ohn M c K ay .
The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts. By S. G. W ilson .
By R. de V aux , o.p.
The Stones and the Scriptures. By E dwin Y amauchi .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Jeffrey A. Barrett, The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds
Timothy O'Hagan, Rousseau
Gail Fine (ed), Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology
Gail Fine (ed), Plato 2; Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul
Fiona Cowie, What's Within: Nativism Reconsidered
Peter Dews, Habermas: A Critical Reader
Richard Wollheim, On the Emotions
Pierre Keller, Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience
James Van Cleve, Problems from Kant
Arthur Collins, Possible Experience
Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby (eds), Feminism in Philosophy     

Reviews

Rottschaefer, William A. The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
Mccutcheon, Russell T. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Drengson, Alan The Practice of Technology: Exploring Technology,Ecophilosophy, and Spiritual Disciplines for Vital Links
Burrell, David B. and Mcginn, Bernard (eds.) God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Ecology and Liberation. A New Paradigm, Leonardo Boff
Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World, Malcolm Bull (ed.)
A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna, A. Brenner (ed.)
Arguments against Secular Culture, Robert Miller
Books and Readers in the Early Church. A History of Early Christian Texts, Harry Y. Gamble
Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust, Karl A. Plank, Westminster/John Knox
Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief, Alan P. Sell
Time and Place in Deuteronomy, J.G. McConville and J. G. Millar
University of Exeter
City of Silence: Listening to Hiroshima, Rachelle Linner
Studies in Early Christology, Martin Hengel, T. & T. Clark
The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Denys Turner, CUP
Theological Essays II, Eberhard Jiingel, John Webster (ed.), T. & T. Clark
Paul's Narrative Thought World: The Tapestry of Tragedy and Triumph, Ben Witherington III, Westminster/John Knox
The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era, Judith Perkins
Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, R. Laurence Moore
Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra, Anne Feldhaus
The God's at Play: Lila in South Asia, William S. Sax (ed.)     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Religion in Higher Education: The Politics of the Multi-Faith Campus
R. W. L. Moberly, The Bible, Theology and Faith: A Study of Abraham and Jesus
Yvonne Sherwood, A Biblical Text and its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
Hans-Josef Klauck, trans. Brian McNeil, Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostle
Mark A. Noll, American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction
S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends
Gavin D'Costa, Sexing the Trinity: Gender, Culture and the Divine
John B. Cobb, Jr. and Clark H. Pinnock (eds), Searching for an Adequate God: A Dialogue between Process and Free Will Theists
Sheila Greeve Davaney, Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust
Stephen Parsons, Ungodly Fear: Fundamentalist Christianity and the Abuse of Power
David H. Smith (ed), Caring Well: Religion, Narrative, and Health Care Ethics
Mark Barger Elliott, Creative Styles of Preaching
Bishop Joe Aldred (ed), Praying with Power     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
Malory Nye, Multiculturalism and Minority Religions in Britain – Krishna Consciousness, Religious Freedom and the Politics of Location
John L. Elias, A History of Christian Education: Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Perspectives
Victor Griffin, Enough Religion to Make Us Hate: Reflections on Religion and Politics
Richard K. Fenn, The Return of the Primitive: A New Sociological Theory of Religion
Sean Freyne and Ellen van Wolde (eds), The Many Voices of the Bible, Concilium 2002/1
Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager, Life in Biblical Israel
J. Alberto Soggin, Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals
Carolyn Pressler, Joshua, Judges and Ruth
Alan R. Kerr, The Temple of Jesus' Body: The Temple Theme in the Gospel of John
J. Patout Burns, Jr., Cyprian the Bishop
Serge Lancel, St Augustine
Irena Backus, Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg
Christopher Elwood, Calvin for Armchair Theologians
Kenneth D. Whitehead (ed.), John Paul II – Witness to Truth
Gerald O'Collins, Incarnation
Lucy Tatman, Knowledge That Matters: A Feminist Theological Paradigm and Epistemology
Hans Küng, Tracing the Way
Miguel A. de la Torre and Edwin David Aponte, Introducing Latino/a Theologies
María Pilar Aquino, Daisy L. Machado and Jeanette Rodríguez (eds), A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice
Joseph A. Bracken, The One in Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of a God–World Relationship
Trevor Beeson, The Bishops
Randall Balmer, Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism
Richard O'Dair and Andrew Lewis (eds), Law and Religion: Current Legal Issues, Volume 4     

Book Reviews

Dennis A. Jacobsen
Dennis A. Jacobsen Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing
Seyoon Kim Paul and the New Perspective: Second Thoughts on the Origin of Paul's Gospel
Christopher C. Knight. Wrestling with the Divine: Religion, Science, and Revelation .
Sallie McFague Super, Natural Christians
Stephen D. Moore. God's Beauty Parlor: and Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible
Patricia A. Williams. Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin     

Reviews

Thiselton, Anthony C. Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise
Rose, Gillian Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation
Parratt, John Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today
Jenson, Robert W. Essays in Theology of Culture
Goodman, L.E. God of Abraham
Mommaers, Paul and Van Bragt, Jan Mysticism, Buddhist and Christian: Encounters with Jan Van Ruusbroec
Loughlin, Gerard Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology
Arendt, Hannah Love and Saint Augustine
Stock, Brian Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation
Bethke, Elshtain, Jean Augustine and the Limits of Politics     

In Search of Inclusivity

Book reviewed in this article:
Robert Wuthnow (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion     

Reviews

Malory Nye (ed), Culture and Religion: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal John L. Esposito and Michael Watson (eds), Religion and Global Order George D. Chryssides, Exploring New Religions Roger Jackson and John Makransky (eds), Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch (eds), Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism Mohammad Abu‐Hamdiyyah, The Qur'an: an Introduction Reuven Firestone, Jihad: the Origin of Holy War in Islam David Brown, Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change Peter J. Thuesen, In Disconcordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible Edward Adams, Constructing the World: A Study in Paul's Cosmological Language Andrew McGowan, Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals Hilarion Alfeyev, St. Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition Richard A. Muller, The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition Dwight N. Hopkins, Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology Sue Morgan, A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the Politics of Gender in the Late‐Victorian Church Michael Chandler, The Life and Work of Henry Parry Liddon Anthony O? Mahoney (ed), Palestinian Christians: Religion, Politics and Society in the Holy Land Michael Prior (ed), They Came and They Saw: Western Christian Experiences of the Holy Land Thomas Hummel, Kevork Hintlian and Ulf Carmesund (eds), Patterns of the Past, Prospects for the Future: The Christian Heritage in the Holy Land Gerald O'Collins, The Tripersonal God: Understanding and Interpreting the Trinity Stephen Davis, Daniel Kendall and Gerald O'Collins (eds), The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity David Fergusson and Marcel Sarot (eds), The Future as God's Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology Daniel Harrington, Why Do We Suffer? A Scriptural Approach to the Human Condition Oliver O'Donovan & Jean Lockwood O'Donovan (eds), From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought Brian R. Clack, An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion Brian R. Clack, Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion David Torevell, Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform David S. Cunningham, Ralph del Colle and Lucas Lamadrid (eds), Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine and Life: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Wainright on his Sixtieth Birthday Guatemala: Never Again! REMHI Recovery of Historical Memory Project. The Official Report of the Human Rights Office, Archdiocese of Guatemala Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan (eds), Religion and Popular Culture in America Susan J. Palmer and Charlotte E. Hardman (eds), Children in New Religions