Journal of the American Academy of Religion

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS ON THE THEME 'CONTESTING RELIGION AND RELIGIONS CONTESTED: THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT'

Editor’s Note
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 977-978; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi110 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sheila Greeve Davaney and Gary Laderman

Introduction: Contesting Religion and Religions Contested: The Study of Religion in a Global Context
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 979-985; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi111 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ARTICLES

S. N. Balagangadhara

How to Speak for the Indian Traditions: An Agenda for the Future
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 987-1013; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Don Seeman

Violence, Ethics, and Divine Honor in Modern Jewish Thought
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1015-1048; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Olga Kazmina and Olga Filippova

Re-Imagination of Religion in Post-Soviet Society: Challenges and Responses (Russian and Ukrainian Case Studies)
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1049-1076; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susumu Shimazono

State Shinto and the Religious Structure of Modern Japan
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1077-1098; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Codou Bop

Roles and the Position of Women in Sufi Brotherhoods in Senegal
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1099-1119; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ESSAYS

Helena Cobban

Religion and Violence
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1121-1139; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mona Siddiqui

When Reconciliation Fails: Global Politics and the Study of Religion
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1141-1153; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi118 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thoraya Ahmed Obaid

Religion and Reproductive Health and Rights
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1155-1173; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi119 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW ESSAY

Robert A. Segal

Classification and Comparison in the Study of Religion: The Work of Jonathan Z. Smith
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1175-1188; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Ronald E. Long

Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience. Edited by James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette. Ashgate Publishing, 2004. 285 pages. $29.95
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1189-1192; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi121 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark R. Woodward

Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning. By John R. Bowen. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 289 pages. $25.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1192-1194; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi122 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Almond

Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy. By Arthur Bradley. Routledge, 2004. 256 pages. $105.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1194-1196; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi123 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Lustig

Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics. Edited by Celia Deane-Drummond, Bronislav Szerszynski, with Robin Grove-White. T & T Clark, 2003. 368 pages. N.P
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1196-1199; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Max A. Myers

The Sacred Santa: Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture. By Dell deChant. Pilgrim Press, 2002. 224 pages. $21.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1199-1202; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz

A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. By Mary F. Foskett. Indiana University Press, 2002. 238 pages. $35.00. • Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. By Stephen J. Shoemaker. Oxford University Press, 2002. 460 pages. N.P
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Sor-hoon Tan

Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge. By Warren Frisina. State University of New York Press, 2002. 262 pages. $22.95
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James Fitzmaurice

Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women’s Writing and the Public Sphere. By Katharine Gillespie. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 272 pages. $60.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1209-1212; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi128 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John G. Nordling

Slavery in Early Christianity. By Jennifer A. Glancy. Oxford University Press, 2002. 203 pages. $39.95
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1212-1215; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul B. Courtright

The Lord Who is Half Woman: Ardhanrivara in Indian and Feminist Perspective. By Ellen Goldberg. State University of New York Press, 2002. 193 pages. $21.95
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Mark Graham

An Examined Faith: The Grace of Self-Doubt. By James M. Gustafson. Fortress Press, 2004. 119 pages. $15.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1217-1220; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi131 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mona Siddiqui

Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity. Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser. AltaMira Press, 2004. 264 pages. $26.95
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Michael Barkun

Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11. Edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia. Duke University Press, 2003. 226 pages. $21.95
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1223-1225; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi133 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terry F. Kleeman

Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. By Robert Hymes. University of California Press, 2002. 364 pages. $24.95
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1225-1228; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi134 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret J. Rausch

The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power and Spirit Possession. By Mary Keller. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 289 pages. $38.50
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Sarah M. Pike

Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America. By Gary Laderman. Oxford University Press, 2003. 245 pages. $35.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1231-1234; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi136 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ira Chernus

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism. By Anatol Lieven. Oxford University Press, 2004. 288 pages. $30.00. • Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana. By Gary Dorrien. Routledge, 2004. 308 pages. $30.00
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1234-1238; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi137 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Cooper

Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. By Gerard Loughlin. Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 306 pages. $29.95
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1238-1240; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi138 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

O. Larry Yarbrough

The Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation. By Margaret M. Mitchell. Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. 563 pages. $44.95
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Elizabeth A. Castelli

An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity. By Laura Nasrallah. Harvard University Press, 2003. 225 pages. $25.00
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Paul Christopher Johnson

Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity. Edited by Jacob K. Olupona. Routledge, 2004. 348 pages. $29.95
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Michael Loewe

To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self—Divinization in Early China. By Michael J. Puett. Harvard University Press, 2002. 358 pages. $49.50
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Joseph Walser

Buddhist Monks and Business Matters: Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India. By Gregory Schopen. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004. 421 pages. $29.00
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Laurel C. Schneider

After Christianity. By Gianni Vattimo. Columbia University Press, 2002. 128 pages. $27.00
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Andrew W. Hass

Religion after Metaphysics. Edited by Mark A. Wrathall. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 194 pages. $22.00
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BOOKS RECEIVED

Books Received
J Am Acad Relig 2005 73: 1261-1279; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi146 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

INDEX TO VOLUME 73

Index To Volume 73 (2005)
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