Antoine Faivre and the Study of Esotericism

Antoine Faivre, Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism. Albany, SUNY Press, 2000, xxxv+259 pp., $73.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4435 X, $24.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4436 8.

Antoine Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism. Albany, SUNY Press, 1994, x+348 pp., $75.50. Cited as 2000 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 2177 5, $25.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 2178 3. Cited as 1994.

Antoine Faivre, Accès de l'ésotérisme occidental, 2 vols Paris, Gallimard, 2ème éd. 1996, 377 and 437 pp., FF175 ISBN 2 07 974293 8; FF190 ISBN 2 07 074126 5.

Antoine Faivre, Philosophie de la Nature: Physique sacrée et théosophie XVIIIè–XIXè siècle. Paris, Albin Michel, 1996, 33 pp., FF150 ISBN 2 226 07627 1.

Antoine Faivre, The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus, trans. Joscelyn Godwin. Grand Rapids, MI, Phanes Press, 1995, 201 pp., $18.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 933999 52 6. Cited as 1995a.

Antoine Faivre, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy. Albany, SUNY Press, 1993, ix+134 pp., $19.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 1410 8.     

Book reviews

C. de Moor, The Rise of Yahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovanien‐sium XCI) Louvain/Leuven, University Press, 1990. ISBN 90 6186 358 9 (D/1990/ 1869/4) and Uitgeverij Peeters, ISBN 90 6831 203 0 (D/1989/0602/73). No price.

Deborah A. Soifer, The Myths of Nara‐sitnha and Vāmana: Two Avatars in Cosmo‐logkai Perspective (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies). State University of New York Press, Albany, 1991, xiv, 321 pp., $16.95 (paperback), $49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 7914 0800 0 (paperback), 0 7914 0799 3 (hardback).

Bruce M. Sullivan, Krsna Dvaipāyana Vyāsa and the Mahābhārata: A New Interpretation. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1990, ix, 132 pp. S38.89. ISBN 90 04 08898 9.

Timothy Miller, When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements. New York, State University of New York Press, 1991, x, 241 pp. ISBN 0 7914 0718 7.

Douglas Davies, Charles Watkins and Michael Winter, Church and Religion in Rural England. Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 1991, 388 pp. £12.50. ISBN 0 567 29201.     

Prospects in Ritual Studies

Michael B. Aune and Valerie DeMarinis, Religious and Social Ritual: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1996. vii+323 pp., $20.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 2825 7, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 2826 7.

Grimes, Ronald L. Beginnings in Ritual Studies. Rev. ed. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1995, xxviii+299 pp., $21.95 (paperback) ISBN 1 5700 001 4.     

Allegations of sexual abuse in Satanic rituals

H. L. Seneviratne. The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, xvi+358 pp., $49 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 74865 0, $22 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 74866 9.

Michael W. Myers. Brahman: A Comparative Theology. Richmond, Curzon, 2001, xiii+268 pp., £45 ISBN 0 7007 1257 7.

Todd T. Lewis, in collaboration with Subarna Man Tuladhar and Labh Ratna Tuladhar. Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism. Foreword by Gregory Schopen. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2000, xviii+236 pp., $59.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4611 5, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4612 3.

Walter Burkett. Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001, xiv+110 pp., $28.00, £18.00 ISBN 0 226 08085 4.

Text by Massoud Fourouzandeh and Alain Brunet. Photos by Abbas Tahvildar. Baptists of Iran. Les baptistes d'Iran. Tehran, Key Press, 2001, 173 pp. (with 5 pages in Farsi), n.p. ISBN 964 90645 5 9.     

Notions of Destiny in Women's Self-Construction

Robert K. C. Forman, Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1999, x+214 pp., $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4169 5, $16.96 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4170 9.

Deborah F. Sawyer and Diane M. Collier (eds), Is There a Future for Feminist Theology? Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, 210 pp., £35.00, $57.50 (hardback) ISBN 1 85075 963 4, £14.95, $24.75 (paperback) ISBN 1 85075 979 0.

Adnan Aslan, Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Richmond, Curzon, 1998, £45.00 ISBN 0 7007 1025 6.

Carol S. Anderson, Pain and its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon. Richmond, Curzon, 1999, xi+255 pp., £40.00 ISBN 0 7007 1065 5.

Michael P. Morrisey, Consciousness and Transcendence: The Theology of Eric Voegelin. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, xiii+334 pp., $41.95 ISBN 0 268 00793 4.

Robert A. Segal, Theorizing About Myth. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, $50.00 (hardback) ISBN 1 55849 194 5, $15.95 (paperback) ISBN 1 55849 191 0.

Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000, xiv+312 pp. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback) ISBN 0231 11666 7, $18.50, £12.00 (paperback) ISBN 0231 11667 5.

Thomas A. Carlson, Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, xiv+307 pp., $45.00, £35.95 (hardback) ISBN 0226 09293 3, $18.00, £14.50 (paperback) ISBN 0226 09294 1.

Harold D. Roth, Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. New York, Columbia University Press, 1999, xvii+294 pp., $29.50, £19.00 ISBN 0231 11564 4.     

Derrida,Negative Theology and the Trespass of the Sign

Kevin Hart, The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and Philosophy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, xii + 292 pp., $64.95, £37.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 35481 1, $19.95, £13.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 521 42382 1.

Harold Coward and Toby Forshay (eds), Derrida and Negative Theology. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1992, xii + 337 pp., $16.95 ISBN 0 7914 0964 3.     

Book reviews

Naturalism in Mathematics PENELOPE MADDY, 1997 Oxford, Oxford University Press viii + 254 pp., $CAN91, ISBN 0–19–823573–9

Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: an Appraisal JAMES T. CUSHING, ARTHUR FINE & SHELDON GOLDSTEIN (Eds), 1996 Dordrecht, Kluwer viii + 403, pp., US$159.00, ISBN 0–7923–4028–0 (hardback)

Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: the 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE, 1997 Edited and introduced, with a commentary, by PATRICIA ANN TURRISI Albany, State University of New York Press xi + 305 pp., $26.53 (paperback) ISBN 0–7914–3265–3 (alk. paper) ISBN 0–7914–3266–1 (paperback: alk. paper)     

Recent books

Abstract

Niedenthal, P.M., & Kitayama, S. (Eds.). (1994). The heart's eye: Emotional influences in perception and attention. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–410560–2. 289pp. $55.00

MacKinnon, N.J. (1994). Symbolic interactionism as affect control. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0–7914–2042–6 (pbk). 245pp. $19.95.

Cuthbertson-Johnson, B., Franks, D.D., & Doman, M. (Eds.) (1994). The sociology of emotions: An annotated bibliography. New York Garland Publishing. ISBN 0–8240–2321–8. 222pp. $37.00

Flanagan, O., & Rorty, A.O. (Eds.) (1990). Identity_; character and morality: Essays in moral psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0–262–56074–7 (pbk). 487pp. $18.50.

Mackie, D.M., 8 Hamilton D.L. (Eds.) (1993). Affect, cognition, and stereotyping: interactive processes in group perception. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–46441–0–4. 389pp. $59.95

Dobson, K.S., & Kendall, P.C. (Eds.) (1993). Psychopethology and cognition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–404175–2. 492pp. $49.95.

Graham, G., & Stephens, G.L. (Eds.) (1994). Philosophical psychopathology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 0–262–07159–2. 332pp. $34.95.     

Briefly noted

Ernest B. Hook (Ed.). Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xx + 378 pp. $80.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐520‐23106‐6. Margaret P. Munger (Ed.). The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi + 514 pp. $69.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐19‐515154‐2. James Moor (Ed.). The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. ix + 445 pp. $37.00 (paper). ISBN: 1‐4020‐1205‐5. John P. Jackson Jr. (Ed.). Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 452 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐226‐38934‐0. $27.00 (paper). ISBN 0‐226‐38935‐9.     

Some ambiguities in the academic study of religion

Robert Ackerman, The Myth and Ritual School: J. G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. Theorists of Myth, Vol. 2. London, New York, Garland 1991, xii + 253 pp. $34.00, ISBN 0 8240 6249 3.

Kenneth Kraft, Eloquent Zen: Daitô and Early Japanese Zen. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press 1992, vi + 266 pp. $34.00, ISBN 0 8248 1383 9.

Jon Davies and Isabel Wollaston (eds), The Sociology of Sacred Texts. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1993, 195 pp. £35.00/$60.00, ISBN 1850 7 54047 (cloth).

H. Eilberg‐Schwartz, The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Bloomington, Indianapolis, Indiana University Press 1990, xii + 289 pp. ISBN 0253 20591 30.

Eugene B. Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America 1991, xiv + 319 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0 8276 0400 9.

Jean Bottéro, Mesopotamia, Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods (translated by Z. Bohrani and M. Van de Mieroop). Chicago &; London, The University of Chicago Press 1992, xii + 311 pp. ISBN 0 226 06726 2.

Linell E. Cady, Religion, Theology, and American Public Life. Albany, State University of New York Press 1993, 202 pp. ISBN 0 7914 1303 9.

Marcus Banks, Organising Jainism in India and England. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), Oxford, Clarendon Press 1992, £35.00, ISBN 0 19 827388 6.

Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford and Karel Dobbelaere (eds), Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1993, xii + 322 pp. £40.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 19 827721 0.

Irving Hexham, Texts on Zulu Religion: Traditional Zulu Ideas About God (African Studies Series, Volume 6). Lewinston, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 488 pp. ISBN 0 88946 181 3 (Volume 6), ISBN 0 88946 175 9 (African Studies Series).

Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood, (eds) Aspects of British Calendar Customs. The Folklore Society Mistletoe Series 22, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 1993, 188 pp. £11.95, ISBN 1 85075 243 5.

Allen Brent, Cultural Episcopacy and Ecumenism: Representative Ministry in Church History from the Age of Ignatius of Antioch to the Reformation. (Studies in Christian Mission ed. Marc R. Spindler). Leiden, New York, Köln, E. J. Brill 1992, i‐xiv + 250 pp. ISBN 90 04 09432 6.

Hans G. Kippenberg, Die vorderasiatischen Erlösungsreligionen in ihrem Zusammenhang mit der antiken Stadthenschafi. Heidelberger Max‐Weber‐Vorlesungen 1988. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 917, Frankfurt am Main 1991, 604 pp. DM28.00, ISBN 3 518 28517 3.

Religion, Tradition, and Renewal. Edited by Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1991, 236 pp. ISBN 87 7288 213 1.

James Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault. New York, Simon &; Schuster 1993, 491 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0 671 69550 9.

The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic, introduced and edited by Kerry S. Walters. Lawrence, KA, University of Kansas Press 1992, x + 394 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0 7006 0540 1 (hardback).

Dyan Elliott, Spiritual Marriage, Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993, xv + 375 pp. ISBN 0 691 08649 4.

Charles Strozier, Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America. Boston, Beacon 1994, 316 pp. $25.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 8070 1226 2.

June Singer, A Gnostic Book of Hours: Keys to Inner Wisdom. San Francisco, Harper 1992, xxiii + 165 pp. $20.00, ISBN 0 06 250796 6.     

Book reviews

Miles, T. R., & Miles, E. (1990). Dyslexia: A hundred years on. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. pp. 214. ISBN 0-335-09541-0. £32.50 (hardback); ISBN 0-335-09540-2. £10.99 (paperback).

Altmann, G.T.M. (Ed.) (1990). Cognitive models of Speech processing: Psycholinguistic and computational perspectives. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press. Pp. 552. ISBN 0-262-01117-4. £49.50.

Watt, R. (1991). Understanding vision. London: Academic Press. Pp. 301. ISBN 012-738501-0. £18.95.

Hunt, R.W.G. (1991). Measuring Colour (second edition). Chichester: Ellis Horwood. Pp. 313. ISBN 0-13-567686-X. £55.50.

Davidoff, J. (1991). Cognition through color. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 217. ISBN 0-262-04115-4. £24.95.     

Book reviews

Gale. A., & Eysenck, M.W. (Eds.). (1992). Handbook of individual diffeences: Biological perspectives. Chicheste: Wiley. Pp. 395. ISBN 0-471-91155-0. £59.95 (Hbk.).

Honig, N. (1988). Pesonality: In seach of individuality. New York: Academic Press. Zuckeman, M. (1991). Psychobiology of Personality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McGrew, W.C (1992). Chimpanzee mateial culture: Implications fo human evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvi + 277. ISBN 0-521-41303-6. £40.00 (Hbk.). ISBN 0-521-42371-6. £16.95 (Pk.).

McGego, P.K. (Ed.) (1992). Playback and studies of animal communication. NATOASI Series Vol. 228. New York: Plenum Press. Pp. x + 231. ISBN 0-306-44205-1. Us$90.00 (Hbk.).

Gibson. K.R., & Ingold. T. (1993). Tools, language and cognition in human evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii + 483. ISBN 0-521-41474-1. £45.00 (Hbk.).

Amsel, A. (1992). Frustration theoy: An analysis of dispositional learning and memoy. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity ress. Pp. xiii + 278. ISBN 0-521-24784-5. £35.00 (Hbk.).     

Book reviews

Weiskrantz, L. (1986). Blindsight: A case study and implications. Oxford University Press. Pp. 187. ISBN 0-19-852129-4. £19.50.

Humphreys, G. W. & Riddoch, M. J. (1987). to see but not to see: A case study of visual agnosia. Hove and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 124. ISBN 0-83677-064-9. £12.95.

Downing, J. A. (1988). Advances in psychology: Cognitive psychology and reading in the USSR. Amsterdam: North Holland; Elsevier Science Publishers. Pp. 471. ISBN 0-444-70374-8. $108.00.

John Beech & Ann Colley (Eds.) (1987). Cognitive approaches to reading. Chichester: John Wiley. Pp. xii + 315.

James Wertsch (Ed.) (1985). Culture, communication and cognition: Vygotskian perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 379. ISBN 0-521-25214-8. £27.50 (Hardback).

Fodor, J. A. (1987). Psychosemantics: The problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press. Pp. xiii, 1-171. ISBN 0-262-06106-6.

Richardson, K. (1988). Understanding Psychology. Milton Keynes: The Open University Press. Pp. 114. ISBN 0-335-09842-8. Paperback £7.95.

Stanovich, Keith E. (Ed.) (1988). Children's reading and the development of phonological awareness. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Pp. 177. ISBN 0-8143-1909-2. $20.00.

Allport, A., MacKay, D.G., Prinz, W., & Scheerer, E. (Eds.), (1987). Language perception and production: Relationships between listening, speaking, reading, and writing. London: Academic Press. Pp. xiii + 497. ISBN 0-12-052750-2. £32.00

Light, L. L. & Burke, D. M. (eds.) (1988). Language, Memory and Aging. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 280. ISBN-0-521-32942-6. £27.50

Friedman, S.L., Scholnick, E.F., and Cocking, R. R. (1987). Bleuprints for thinking: The role of planing in cognitive development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xv + 559. ISBN 0-521-25605-4. £40.00.     

Book Reviews

Brown, M.C., Hopkins, W.G.,&Keynes, R.J. (1991). Essentials of neural development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37556-8, £27.50 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-37698-X, £9.95 (paperback).

Kolb, B.&Tees, R.C. (Eds.) (1990). The cerebral cortex of the rat. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books, MIT Press. Pp. xii + 645. ISBN 0-262-11150, £53.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-262-61064-7, £35.00 (paperback).     

Critical Notices

Possessed by Concepts

A Study of Concepts By Christopher Peacocke MIT Press, 1992. Pp. x + 266. ISBN 0–262–161338. £24.95.

Morality, ethics and ‘postmetaphysical thinking: new books by Jürgen Habermas

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Enquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society Polity Press, 1992, Pp.300, ISBN 0–7456–1077–3. £35/11.95.

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action Polity Press, 1992. Pp. 280. ISBN 0–7456–1104–4. £29.50.

Postmetaphysical Thinking. Philosophical Essays Polity Press, 1992. Pp. 200. ISBN 0–7456–0734–9. £29.50.

Justification and Application. Remarks on Discourse Ethics Polity Press, 1993. Pp. 192. ISBN 0–7456–0143–9. £35/11.95.

Shame and Necessity By Bernard Williams University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 254. ISBN 0–520–08046–7. $25.     

Book reviews

Schulkin, J. (1991). Sodium hunger: The search for a salty taste. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 192. ISBN 0-521-35368-8. £30.00 (hardback).

Heiligenberg, W.F. (1991). Neural nets in electric fish. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (A Bradford Book). Pp. 179. ISBN 0-262-08203-9. £33.75 (hardback).

Donald, M. (1991). Origins of the modern mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition. Cambrdige, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 413. ISBN 0-674-64483-2. £22.25 (hardback).     

Book reviews

Colley, A. M. & Beech, J. R. (Eds.). (1988). Cognition and action in skilled behaviour. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Pp. 425. ISBN 0-444-70493-0. $108

Coltherat, M. Sartori, G. & Job, R. (Eds.) (1987). The cognitive neuropsychology of language. Hove & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. Pp. 416. ISBN 0-86377-036-3. £29.95

Shallice, T. (1988). From neuropsychology to mental structure. Cambridge: Cmbridge University Press. Pp. 462. ISBN 0-521-30874-7, £40.00 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-31360-0. £15.00 (paperback)

Levelt, W. J. M. (1989). Speaking: from intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 355. ISBN 0-262-12137-9. £35.95

Hargreaves, D. J. (Ed.) (1989). Children and the arts. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Pp: 176. ISBN 0335-098819, £27.50. 9 (hardback); ISBN 0335-098800, £9.90 (paperback).

De Valois, R. L. & De Valois, K. K. (1988). Spatial vision. New York: Oxford University Pass. Pp 381. ISBN 0-19-505019-3. £65.00