Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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Yvonne Sherwood

Binding–Unbinding: Divided Responses of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the "Sacrifice" of Abraham's Beloved Son
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 821-861; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh081 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Silk

Numa Pompilius and the Idea of Civil Religion in the West
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 863-896; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh082 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David L. McMahan

Modernity and the Early Discourse of Scientific Buddhism
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 897-933; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh083 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nirmala S. Salgado

Religious Identities of Buddhist Nuns: Training Precepts, Renunciant Attire, and Nomenclature in Theravda Buddhism
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 935-953; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh084 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeffrey Samuels

Toward an Action-Oriented Pedagogy: Buddhist Texts and Monastic Education in Contemporary Sri Lanka
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 955-971; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh085 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ananda Abeysekara

Identity for and against Itself: Religion, Criticism, and Pluralization
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 973-1001; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh086 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald James Larson

"A Beautiful Sunset... Mistaken for a Dawn": Some Reflections on Religious Studies, India Studies, and the Modern University
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1003-1019; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh087 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer

Review: A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1021-1023; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh088 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frederick J. Ruf

Review: The Newsboy's Lodging-House, or The Confessions of William James
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1023-1025; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh089 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Utz

Review: Good Taste, Bad Taste and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1026-1028; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh090 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian K. Wedemeyer

Review: The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1028-1031; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh091 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vivian-Lee Nyitray

Review: The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1031-1034; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh092 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Leaman

Review: Islamic Humanism
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1035-1037; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh093 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek R. Peterson

Review: Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1037-1040; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh094 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tracy Coleman

Review: The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1040-1042; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh095 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gustav Niebuhr

Review: Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1043-1045; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh096 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard H. Davis

Review: Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1045-1050; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh097 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ira Chernus

Review: Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1050-1053; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh098 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francis X. Clooney

Review: With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1053-1056; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh099 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert W. Hefner

Review: Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1056-1059; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh100 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Franke Wilmer

Review: Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1059-1061; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh101 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fumitaka Matsuoka

Review: Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1062-1064; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh102 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Lewis Taylor

Review: God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary Theology
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1064-1067; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh103 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mona Siddiqui

Review: Gender, Politics, and Islam
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1067-1069; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh104 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret R. Miles

Review: Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1070-1072; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh105 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles D. Orzech

Review: Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the "Treasure Store Treatise."
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1073-1076; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh106 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather Campbell

Review: Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1076-1078; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh107 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maxim Lebedev

Review: The Eternal in Russian Philosophy
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1078-1081; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh108 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1083-1104; doi:10.1093/jaar/72.4.1083 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Index to Volume 72 (2004)
J Am Acad Relig 2004 72: 1105-1112; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh110 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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