Journal of the American Academy of Religion

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN THE ACADEMY

Editor’s Note
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1-6; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ARTICLES

Ellen T. Armour

Theology in Modernity’s Wake
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
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Peter Ochs

Response to Armour
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Ellen T. Armour

Reply to Ochs
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 19-20; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José Ignacio Cabezón

The Discipline and Its Other: The Dialectic of Alterity in the Study of Religion
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 21-38; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Schweiker

Response to Cabezón
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 39-44; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José Ignacio Cabezón

Reply to Schweiker
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Gavin Flood

Reflections on Tradition and Inquiry in the Study of Religions
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 27, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 47-58; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy K. Levene

Response to Flood
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 59-63; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gavin Flood

Reply to Levene
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Paul J. Griffiths

On the Future of the Study of Religion in the Academy
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 66-74; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ellen T. Armour

Response to Griffiths
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 75-76; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul J. Griffiths

Reply to Armour
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on December 28, 2005
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Nancy K. Levene

Sources of History: Myth and Image
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 79-101; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José Ignacio Cabezón

The Limits of History: A Response to Nancy Levene
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 102-104; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancy K. Levene

Reply to José Ignacio Cabezón
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 105-106; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ebrahim Moosa

Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought: Translations and Transitions
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 107-118; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul J. Griffiths

Response to Moosa
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 119-121; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ebrahim Moosa

Rejoinder to Paul J. Griffiths’ Response
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 122-124; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Ochs

Comparative Religious Traditions
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 12, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 125-128; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert A. Segal

Response to Peter Ochs’ "Comparative Religious Traditions"
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 129-132; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Ochs

Reply to Segal
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 133-134; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Schweiker

On the Future of Religious Ethics: Keeping Religious Ethics Religious and Ethical
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 135-151; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gavin Flood

Response to Schweiker
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 152-154; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Schweiker

Reply to Flood
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Robert A. Segal

All Generalizations Are Bad: Postmodernism on Theories
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 157-171; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ebrahim Moosa

Response to Robert Segal
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 172-175; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert A. Segal

Reply to Moosa
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 176-178; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graham Ward

The Future of Religion
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 179-186; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj024 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth A. Castelli

Divining the Future Places of Religion: A Partial Response to Graham Ward, "The Future of Religion"
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Graham Ward

Reply to Elizabeth A. Castelli
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REVIEW ESSAY

Slavica Jakelic and Jessica Starling

Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 31, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 194-211; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Celia Deutsch

Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation. By George W. E. Nickelsburg. Fortress Press, 2003. 264 pages. $23.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 212-215; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Todd Brown

Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitbha. Edited by Richard K. Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka. University of Hawai’i Press, 2004. 304 pages. $32.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 215-218; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Anne Perkins

Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity. By Anthony D. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2003. 330 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 218-221; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Michael Flescher

Common Morality: Deciding What to Do. By Bernard Gert. Oxford University Press, 2004. 179 pages. $25.00
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 221-224; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scott M. Kenworthy

Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church. By Judith Deutsch Kornblatt. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 203 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 224-227; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Victor E. Taylor

Impossible God: Derrida’s Theology. By Hugh Rayment-Pickard. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. 185 pages. $84.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 9, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 227-229; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leigh E. Schmidt

The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. By Tomoko Masuzawa. University of Chicago Press, 2005. 359 pages. $19.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 229-232; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Howayda Al-Harithy

Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning. By Robert Hillenbrand. Columbia University Press, 2004. 645 pages. $30.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 232-235; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory D. Alles

Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West. By Alan F. Segal. Doubleday, 2004. 866 pages. $37.50.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 235-238; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeffrey Marlett

The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America. By William M. Shea. Oxford University Press, 2004. 402 pages. $35.00
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 238-241; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K. Roberts Skerrett

Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Edited by David L. Eng and David Kazanjian. University of California Press, 2003. 488 pages. $24.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 12, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 241-243; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas C. Langham

New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective. Edited by Phillip Charles Lucas and Thomas Robbins. Routledge, 2004. 364 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 9, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 243-247; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dan Arnold

Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons. By Mark Siderits. Ashgate, 2003. 231 pages. $79.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 247-250; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lynn Poland

Place and Space in Modern Fiction. By Wesley A. Kort. University Press of Florida, 2004. 269 pages. $59.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 251-253; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James McBride

Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning. Edited by Erik C. Owens, John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain. William B. Eerdmans, 2004. 294 pages. $28.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 253-256; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George A. Keyworth

Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. By John R. McRae. University of California Press, 2003. 204 pages. $19.95.
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J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 256-259; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Björn Krondorfer

The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. By Virginia Burrus. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 216 pages. $42.50.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 259-262; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin A. Leaver

Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism. Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll. University of Alabama Press, 2004. 260 pages. $52.50. • Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology. Edited by Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll. William B. Eerdmans, 2004. 288 pages. $18.00. • How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans. By David W. Stowe. Harvard University Press, 2004. 335 pages. $27.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 262-266; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amina M. Steinfels

Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond. By Carl W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence. Palgrave, 2002. 241 pages. $24.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 266-269; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. Russ Bush, III

When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah’s Flood. By J. David Pleins. Oxford University Press, 2003. 242 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 25, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 269-271; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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