Journal of the American Academy of Religion

BOOK RECEIVED

Books Received
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1-62; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ARTICLES

Michael L. Satlow

Defining Judaism: Accounting for "Religions" in the Study of Religion
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 18, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 837-860; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reiko Ohnuma

Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist Nuns’ Order
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 861-901; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lawrence M. Wills

Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 902-925; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dan McKanan

Honoring the Journey: The Wayward Paths of Conversion in the Catholic Worker and Camphill Movements
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 926-953; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reuven Firestone

Holy War in Modern Judaism? "Mitzvah War" and the Problem of the "Three Vows"
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 3, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 954-982; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Arthur David Canales

Models of the Eucharist. By Kevin W. Irwin. Paulist Press, 2005. 367 pages. $22.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 983-986; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John D. Caputo

Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness. By Jean-Luc Marion. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky. Stanford University Press, 2002. 375 pages. $27.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 5, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 986-989; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Eisen

Maimonides: The Man and His Works. By Hebert A. Davidson. Oxford University Press, 2005. 567 pages. $45.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 989-992; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clare B. Fischer

Simone Weil As We Knew Her. By J. M. Perrin and G. Thibon. Translated by Emma Craufurd. Routledge, 2003. 160 pages. $26.95. • The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil. Edited by E. Jane Doering and Eric O. Springsted. University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 252 pages. $27.50.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 5, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 992-995; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Juan M. Floyd-Thomas

James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. By Clarence E. Hardy III. University of Tennessee Press, 2003. 168 pages. $30.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 30, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 995-998; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary E. Hunt

The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972–2003. By Judith Plaskow. Beacon, 2005. 272 pages. $19.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 998-1001; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Jasper

Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theory. By Julia Reinhard Lupton. The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 277 pages. $35.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1001-1003; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Kavka

Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. By Samuel Moyn. Cornell University Press, 2005. 268 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1003-1005; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine Keller

Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: a Western Religious History. By Rosemary Radford Ruether. Berkeley: University of California, 2005. 381 pages.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 16, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1006-1008; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Y. Kim

Does God Belong in Public Schools? By Kent Greenawalt. Princeton University Press, 2005. 296 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 4, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1008-1011; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience. By Samiri Hernández Hiraldo. University Press of Florida, 2006. 291 pages. $55.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1011-1014; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Martínez

Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism. By Damian Costello. Orbis Books, 2005. 193 pages. $22.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 6, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1014-1017; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William A. Mirola

A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Leader. By Cynthia Taylor. New York University Press, 2006. 290 pages. $39.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1017-1020; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susanne C. Monahan

America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity. By Robert Wuthnow. Princeton University Press, 2005. 391 pages. $29.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 8, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1020-1023; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ebrahim Moosa

Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith. By Vartan Gregorian. Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 164 pages. $15.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1023-1025; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Pollard

Papal Diplomacy: John Paul II and the Culture of Peace. By Bernard J. O’Connor. St. Augustine’s Press, 2005. 344 pages. $27.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 18, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1026-1027; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Schippert

Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic. Edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Dwight N. Hopkins. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 362 pages. $69.95.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 6, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1027-1030; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frederick M. Smith

Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Edited by Sheldon Pollock. University of California Press, 2003. 1066 pages. $80.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1030-1034; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. Drew Smith

Church, Identity, and Change: Theology and Denominational Structures in Unsettled Times. Edited by David A. Roozen and James R. Nieman. Wm. B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2005. 656 pages. $36.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 6, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1034-1037; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Theodore Walker, Jr.

A Briefer History of Time. By Steven W. Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Bantam Books, October 2005. 162 pages. $25.00.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1037-1039; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. By Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Chicago University Press, 2006. 258 pages. $35.00 (cloth).
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 25, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1039-1042; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. By Bryan J. Cuevas. Oxford University Press, 2003. 328 pages. $25.00 (paper).
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 26, 2006
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1042-1044; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

INDEX TO VOLUME 74

INDEX TO VOLUME 74 (2006)
J Am Acad Relig 2006 74: 1045-1052; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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