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Short notices of reissued books:
Paul F. Bradshaw, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy , Second Edition
Paul D. Hanson, The People Called: The Growth of Community in the Bible
Walter Brueggemann, The Bible Makes Sense , Revised Edition with a New Introduction
Richard N. Soulen and R. Kendall Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism , Third Edition
Douglas Stuart, Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors , Third Edition
Stanley Hauerwas, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth–Century Theology and Philosophy
David Weiss Halivni, Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses
Sallie McFague, Speaking in Parables
Frances Young, The Making of the Creeds
Karl Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Its Background and History , New Edition
John Macquarrie, Twentieth–Century Religious Thought , Fifth Edition
Patrick Sherry, Spirit and Beauty: An Introduction to Theological Aesthetics , Second Edition
Douglas J. Davies, Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites , Second Edition     

Reviews

Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience . Edited by Jensine Andresen
Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science . By Michael Horace Barnes
Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design . Edited by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics. By Nicholas White.
Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism. By Alan Bailey.
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus. Edited by Thomas Williams.
Thomas Reid and Scepticism: his Reliabilist Response. By Philip de Bary.
Dugald Stewart: the Pride and Ornament of Scotland. By Gordon Macintyre.
Human Rights and Chinese Thought: a Cross-Cultural Inquiry. By Stephen C. Angle.
Thought and World: an Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference and Semantic Correspondence. By Christopher Hill.
The Correspondence Theory of Truth: an Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication. By Andrew Newman.
Thinking about Consciousness. By David Papineau.
Selves and Other Texts: the Case for Cultural Realism. By Joseph Margolis.
A History of Political Thought from Ancient Greece to Early Christianity. By Janet Coleman.
A History of Political Thought from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. By Janet Coleman.
Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship. By Will Kymlicka.
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations. By John S. Dryzek.
Fairness versus Welfare. By Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell.     

Schooling,the Protestant churches and the state in Northern Ireland: a tension resolved

In 1998, Byrne and McKeown examined the churches’ roles in Northern Ireland’s (NI) schooling system. NI was then governed by direct-rule from the UK’s Westminster Parliament. The authors concluded that the desire of the Protestant churches to re-establish their influence in schools was ‘unlikely to succeed’. This was contrasted with the ‘success-story’ of Catholic influence in schooling. This article tracks the fortunes of the Protestant churches in NI’s educational policy developments in the last 18 years. Of particular interest are the government’s proposals to establish an Education and Skills Authority (ESA) under a new Education Bill. A careful reading of the Protestant churches’ annual education reports indicates the alarm with which these proposals were met. In the early years of the new millennium it seemed that the conclusions of the 1998 paper were prescient. However, extensive lobbying by the Protestant churches in a changed (devolved) political context secured almost all their demands. This article concludes that the ‘tension’ (claimed in the 1998 paper) between the Protestant churches and the state has largely been resolved. The article evaluates the significance of recent developments for the Protestant churches and their involvement in schooling. More critically, the propriety of these developments is questioned asking if they mark an advance for the Protestant churches and/or schooling in NI.     

The protestant work ethic and type A behaviour: a pilot study

40 adult subjects completed three measures of the Protestant Work Ethic and a multidimensional measure of the Type A behaviour pattern. The only consistent pattern of correlations was between the "hard-driving" subscale of the Type A measure and all three total PWE scores for Protestant Work Ethic. Results are discussed in terms of the constituent parts of both concepts.     

Social Categorization and Stimulus Equivalence

Northern Irish Protestant subjects, Northern Irish Catholic subjects, and English Protestant subjects were taught a series of conditional discriminations using a matching-to-sample procedure. In the presence of Northern Irish Catholic names, subjects were trained to select three-letter nonsense syllables, and in the presence of the nonsense syllables subjects were trained to select Northern Irish Protestant symbols. Subjects were then tested to determine whether the Protestant symbols and Catholic names had become related through symmetry and transitivity. A generalization test was employed to allow for a preliminary investigation of the transfer of experimentally generated equivalence responding to untrained, socially loaded names. Preliminary findings suggest that prior social learning might interfere with equivalence responding. The relevance of these results to the theoretical interpretation of the equivalence phenomenon and to social attitude measurement in general is discussed.

     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed
Martha Ellen Stortz. A World According to God: Practices for Putting Faith at the Center of Your Life
Scott H. Hendrix. Recultivating the Vineyard: The Reformation Agendas of Christianization
Sue Monk Kidd. The Secret Life of Bees
Stephen R. Haynes. The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon-Portraits of a Protestant Saint
John B. Cobb, Jr., ed. Progressive Christians Speak: A Different View on Faith and Politics     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Thornton, Tim Wittgenstein on Language and Thought: The Philosophy of Content
Dale Jacquette Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition
Guy Robinson Philosophy and Mystification
D.Z. Phillips Philosophy's Cool Place
Ilham Dilman Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes
Peter Johnson Collingwood: An Introduction
Richard Bell Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion     

Book Reviews

C larke , J.J. Jung and Eastern Thought: A Dialogue with the Orient
J acoby , M ario . Shame and the Origins of Self-Esteem: AJungian Approach
L ammers , A nn C onrad . In Cod's Shadow: The Collaboration of Victor White and C.G. Jung     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Judith A. Sabrosky, From Rationality to Liberation : The Evolution of Feminist Ideology.
Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory . Princeton, N.J.:
Warren P. Fraleigh, Right Actions In Sport : Ethics for Contestants. Champaign, Ill.
W.D.J. Cargill Thompson, The Political Thought of Martin Luther . Brighton, England
Joseph P. DeMarco, The Social Thought of W.E.B. DuBois . Lanham, Maryland
Bruckner, D.J.R., Seymour Chwast, and Steven Heller, Art Against War
Judith Hicks Stiehm (ed.), Women's Views of the Political World of Men . Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
William James, A Review of the Reviews of The Varieties of Religious Experience
Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology
James R. Nieman and Thomas G. Rogers, Preaching to Every Pew: Cross–Cultural Strategies     

Leibniz,Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Lawrence H. Schiffman, James C. VanderKam (eds), Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Robert Elinor, Buddha & Christ: Images of Wholeness
Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke (eds), Ciphers In the Sand: Interpretation of The Woman Taken in Adulter
Thomas Harrison, Divinity and History. The Religion of Herodotus
Bernard Lonergan, Frederick E. Crow and Robert M. Doran (eds), Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
John W. O'Malley, Trent and all That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era
Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
Michael D. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Martin Ott, African Theology in Images
Keith Ward, Religion and Community
Martin Sutherland (ed.), Mission Without Christendom: Exploring the Site
Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
John Webster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
Philip Clayton, The Problem of God in Modern Thought
Andrew Shanks, God and Modernity: A New and Better Way to Do Theology
James P. Mackey, The Critique of Theological Reason
John E. Thiel, Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith
Anne Primavesi, Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science
Michael H. Barnes, Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science
Stanley L. Jaki, The Savior of Science
George Lovell, Consultancy, Ministry and Mission, A Handbook for Practitioners and Work Consultants in Christian Organizations     

Reviews

The New Genesis: Theolou and the Genetic Revolution by R onald C ole -T urner
C ole -T urner R esponse to A lexander
Yoking Science and Religion: The Life and Thought of Ralph Wendell Burhoe by D avid R. B reed
Explaining and Interpreting Religion: Essays on the Issue by R obert A. S egal     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Fred Dretske . Seeing and Knowing. A. N. Prior (ed. by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny). Objects of Thought. Oscar P. Wood and George Pitcher (eds.). Ryle: a collection of critical essays.     

Review of Julie Chajes,Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy,Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xii + 215 p., Hardcover,ISBN 978-0-19-090913-0, £64

Studies in East European Thought - This is a review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. The book,...     

Book Reviews

Joseph Margolis, Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium
Steven W. Laycock, Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind
John Lachs, The Relevance of Philosophy to Life
William Joseph Gavin, Cuttin' the Body Loose: Historical, Biological, and Personal Approaches to Death and Dying
Maeve Cooke, Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics     

ONCE MORE…

Walter H. Capps, The N m Religious Right: Piety, Patriotism, and Politics Leory S. Rouner (ed.), Civil Religion and Political Theology Jane Schaberg, The lllegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives Linwood Urban, A Short History of Christian Thought Robert Wuthnow, Christianity in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the Challenges Ahead     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Marcus Giaquinto, The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics
Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy
Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
Malcolm Budd, The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
Stephen Buckle, Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'     

Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge

Book Information Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge. By Jacques Bruschwig and Geoffrey, E. R. Lloyd. MA, Belnap Press. Cambridge. 2000. Pp. xv + 1024. Hardback, US$49.00.