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:
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

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

Book Reviews

Book reviewed:
stecker, robert . Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, viii + 253 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
leaman, oliver . Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction . University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, vii + 211 pp., $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.
banes, sally , ed. Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible . University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, 200 pp., 17 b&w illus., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
meskimmon, marsha . Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics . London/New York: Routledge, 2003, xiv + 225 pp., $99.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
brand peg and mary devereaux , eds. Hypatia . Special Issue on Feminism and Aesthetics, Volume 18, 2003. Indiana University Press, xx + 305 pp., $12.00 paper.
jenkyns, richard . A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen . Oxford University Press, 2004, ix + 215 pp., $25.00 cloth.
miller, d. a.   Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style . Princeton University Press, 2003, 108 pp., $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.
katz, mark . Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music . University of California Press, 2004, xiii + 276 pp., 2 b&w illus., CD, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
philip robert . Performing Music in the Age of Recording . Yale University Press, 2004, vii + 252 pp., $35.00 cloth.
symes, colin . Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical Recordings . Wesleyan University Press, 2004, xiii + 313 pp., 41 illus., $39.95 cloth.
cox, christoph and daniel warner , eds. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music . New York: Continuum Press, 2004, xvii + 454 pp., $100.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
ginsberg, robert . The Aesthetics of Ruins . Amsterdam/New York: Ropodi, 2004, xx + 538 pp., 103 b&w illus., $144.00 cloth.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World; The Psychology of Political Behavior. By Jerrold M. Post. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. 291 pp.
Blind Trust: Large Group Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror. By Vamik Volkan. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone Publishing. 367 pp.
Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages. By Debra Javeline. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 2003. 291 pp.
The GAM/DP Theory of Personality and Creativity: Volume 1. William A. Therivel. Minneapolis: Kirk House Publisher. 2001. 399 pp.     

Bound by Recognition

Books reviewed:
Bound by Recognition. By Patchen Markell. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. 2003. 320 pp. Reviewed by Sophia Jane Mihic Northeastern Illinois University     

REVIEWS

The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Christopher W. Steck, S. J. (New York, NY: Crossroad, 2001), ix + 226 pp. and The Systematic Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar. An Irenaean Retrieval by Kevin Mongrain (New York, NY: Crossroad, 2002), xii + 246 pp.
Towards a Theology of God the Father: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theodramatic Approach by Margaret M. Turek (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2001), + 327 pp.
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Robert Louis Wilken (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003), xxii + 368pp.
God, Evil, and Innocent Suffering: A Theological Reflection , by John E. Theil (New York, NY: Crossroad, 2002), xi + 179 pp.
Out of the Depths: Women's Experience of Evil and Salvation by Ivone Gebara (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002), vii + 211 pp.
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott (New York, NY: Norton, 2003), xiii + 357 pp. and Heal Thyself: Spirituality , Medicine and the Distortion of Christianity by Joel James Shuman and Keith G. Meador (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003), xiii + 174 pp.
Heart and Head: Black Theology—Past, Present, and Future by Dwight N. Hopkins (New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002), xiv + 222 pp.
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of the Enlightenment by Avihu Zakai (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), xvii + 348 pp.
Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief by Giles Fraser (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), vi + 193 pp.
The Nonviolent Atonement by J. Denny Weaver (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001), xiii + 246 pp.     

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     

Briefly noted

David Brendel. Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 208 pp. $26 (cloth) ISBN 0‐262‐02594‐9. David Livingstone and Charles Withers. Geography and Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 440 pp. $45 (cloth) ISBN: 0‐226‐48733‐4. Sanford Schram and Brian Caterino. Making Political Science Matter. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 304 pp. $24 (paper) ISBN: 0‐8147‐4033‐2. Dieter Borchmeyer. Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 391 pp. (cloth) ISBN 0‐691‐11497‐8. Arnold Goldberg. Moral Stealth: How “Correct Behavior” Insinuates Itself Into Psychotherapeutic Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 144 pp. $32 (cloth) ISBN 0‐226‐30120‐4.     

Revisiting the shop of confucius

The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage And Its Modern Adaptation. Gilbert Rozman, 1990 Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1990 v‐x + 235 pp., $29.95     

Books Received

(Inclusion in this list does not preclude a subsequent review discussion.)

Habermas and Pragmatism, ed. Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, and Catherine Kemp. London/New York: Routledge: 2002, xi + 244 pp., pb. £15.99.

Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions, David Bloor. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xvi + 173 pp., pb. £17.99.

What Ought I to Do?: Morality in Kant and Levinas, Catherine Chalier. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, 197 pp., $45.00, pb. $17.95.

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, John Christman. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 248 pp., £12.99, $20.95.

Paradoxes from A to Z, Michael Clark. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xi + 218 pp., no price given.

Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, Jonathan Crary. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, 397 pp., $45.00, pb. $22.95.

Heidegger's Concept of Truth, Daniel Dahlstrom. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xxx + 462 pp., $60.00.

A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray, Penelope Deutscher. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, ix + 228 pp., $39.95, pb. $17.95.

A History of Irish Thought, Thomas Duddy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xviii + 362 pp., pb., no price given.

Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics, Christopher Eberle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 405 pp., $75.00, pb. $28.00.

The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism, Brian Ellis. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, v + 185 pp., £40.00, pb. £12.95.

Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Mark J. Cherry (eds). Clinical Medical Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, x + 331 pp., pb. $39.95, £29,75.

A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger, Michael Friedman. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Co., 2000, xv + 175 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Non-Representational Theory of Knowledge, Warren G. Frisina. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xiii + 262 pp., $71.50, pb. $22.95.

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, Richard M. Gale (ed.). Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, viii + 348 pp., £60.00, pb. £17.99.

The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics, Marcus Giaquinto. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, xi +286 pp., £35.00.

Forgiveness and Revenge, Trudy Govier. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 205 pp., pb. £13.99.

Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy, Robert Hahn. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001, xxiii + 326 pp., $81.50, pb. $28.95.

Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary, Espen Hammer. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, xiv + 199 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality, Robert A. Hinde. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiv + 241, pb. no price given.

The Divine Attributes, Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz. Exploring the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002, xi + 204 pp., £50.00, pb. £15.99.

The Letters of George Santayana, Book Three 1921-1927, ed. William Holzberger. The Works of George Santayana. Vol. V. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, Ixviii + 512 pp., $55.00.

Theoretical Philosophy After 1781, Immanuel Kant. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Ed. Henry Allison and Peter Heath. Trans. Gary Hatfield and Michael Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 530 pp., $95.00.

Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality, Samuel J. Kerstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiv + 226 pp., $60.00.

Skepticism: The Central Issues, Charles Landesman. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, x + 210 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology, Leonard Lawlor. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xii + 286 pp., $49.95, pb. $19.95.

Richard Rorty, Alan Malachowski. Philosophy Now. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, xxi + 202 pp., £40.00, pb. £12.95.

The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics, George Marcus. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002, viii + 171 pp., $45.00, pb. $19.95.

The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills. SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xv + 261 pp., $73.50, pb. $24.95.

The Phenomenology Reader, Dermot Moran and Timothy Mooney (eds), London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 614 pp.

Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Richard Moran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, xxxv + 202 pp., pb. $16.95.

On Film, Stephen Mulhall. Thinking in Action. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, v + 142pp., pb. £7.99, $12.95.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication, Andrew Neuman. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii + 251 pp., $60.00.

An Introduction to Philosophy, Jon Nuttall. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, xvii + 254 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Vico: The First New Science, Gianbattista Vico. Ed. Leon Pompa. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, Ixiv + 302 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00.

The Ethics of Aquinas, Stephen J. Pope (ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, xv + 496 pp., pb. $39.95, £29.75.

The Right and the Good, David Ross. Ed. Philip Stratton-Lake. British Moral Philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, Iviii + 183 pp., £40.00.

Dreaming by the Book, Elaine Scarry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 292 pp., pb. $18.95.

Environmental Ethics and Policy-Making, Mikael Stenmark. Ashgate Translations in Philosophy, Theology and Religion. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2002, vi + 161 pp., £37.50.

Bayes's Theorem, Richard Swinburne (ed.). Proceedings of the British Academy 113. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2002, ix + 149 pp., £17.99.

After Christianity, Gianni Vattimo. Trans. Luca D'lsanto. Italian Academy Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, v + 156 pp., $24.50, pb. $17.00.

The Other Husserl: The Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology, Donn Welton. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xvi + 496 pp., $54.95, pb. $29.95.

Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy, Bernard Williams. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, xi + 328 pp., £19.95, $27.95.     

Reviews: Books Photography

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

BOOK REVIEWS

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

The Jewish Social Contract: An Essay in Political Theology – David Novak

Book reviewed:
The Jewish Social Contract: An Essay in Political Theology , David Novak, Princeton University Press 2005 (0-691-12210-5), xxi + 257 pp., hb $39.50     

Retreat from Non-Being

Book Information Welfare and Rational Care. Welfare and Rational Care Stephen Darwall, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. xi + 135, US$24.95 (cloth). By Stephen Darwall. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. xi + 135. US$24.95 (cloth:),     

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

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

Once More . . .

The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings , Third Edition, Bart D. Ehrman, Oxford University Press 2004 (0-19-515462-2), pp. xxxvi + 506, Pb £21.99
A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages , Walter Ullmann with a new introduction by George Garnett. Routledge 2003 (0-415-30227-7), pp. xix + 339, Pb $19.99
Showing of Love , Julian of Norwich, translated by Julia Bolton Holloway, DLT 2003 (0-232-52503-X), pp. xxxiv + 133, Pb £9.95
The Encyclopedia of Christianity , Volume 3 (J-O), Erwin Fahlbusch et al. , Eerdmans 2003 (0-8028-2415-3) / Brill 2003 (90-04-12654-6), pp. xxix + 918, Hb £65/$100
Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and its Legacy , Revised Edition, Richard L. Rubenstein and John K. Roth (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22353-2), pp. xi + 499, Pb $29.95     

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.     

The vicissitudes of seeing: Iconoclasm and idolatry

Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. Trans. by Jane Marie Todd. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, viii+423 pp., 32 b/w illustrations, $40.00 ISBN 0 226 04413 0.

Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalistic Era. Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, 1998, xvii+427 pp., 86 b/w illustrations, $69.50 ISBN 0 521 57067 0.

Richard H. Davis, Lives of Indian Images. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997, xiii+ 331 pp., 50 b/w illustrations, $55.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 691 02622 X, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 691 00520 6.

Dario Gamboni, The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997, 416 pp., 151 b/w illustrations, $45.00 ISBN 0 300 07170 1.

Gerald R. Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, xvii+ 168 pp., $54.95 ISBN 0 521 65165 4.

Kenneth Mills, Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640–1750. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, xiii+337 pp., 9 b/w illustrations, $69.50 ISBN 0 691 02979 2.