Journal of the American Academy of Religion

FOCUS UNIT: RELIGION IN AFRICA

Get checked abstract Samuel I. Britt

"Sacrifice Honors God": Ritual Struggle in a Liberian Church
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 5, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1-26; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Chidester

Dreaming in the Contact Zone: Zulu Dreams, Visions, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 27-53; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anthony Ephirim-Donkor

Akom: The Ultimate Mediumship Experience Among the Akan
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 54-81; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Birgit Meyer

Powerful Pictures: Popular Christian Aesthetics in Southern Ghana
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 82-110; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm092 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mika Vähäkangas

Ghambageu Encounters Jesus in Sonjo Mythology: Syncretism as African Rational Action
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 2, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 111-137; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ARTICLES

Get checked abstract Robert M. Geraci

Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 28, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 138-166; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Rudolph M. Bell

Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism. By Moshe Sluhovsky
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 167-170; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm095 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luke Bretherton

Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine). By Kristen Deede Johnson
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 10, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 170-173; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pierre Robert Colas

Contemporary Maya Spirituality: The Ancient Ways Are Not Lost. By Jean Molesky-Poz
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 174-176; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm097 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Devin DeWeese

The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. By Omid Safi
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 28, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 177-183; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm098 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wendy Farley

Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. By Aaron Stalnaker
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 183-186; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm099 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Constance Furey

Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. By Frances E. Dolan
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 1, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 186-189; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm100 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Gressett

Hare Krishna Transformed. By E. Burke Rochford Jr
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 189-192; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natalie Gummer

Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature. By Reiko Ohnuma
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 192-195; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm103 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joel F. Harrington

Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany. By Amy Leonard
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 5, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 195-198; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natasha Heller

Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism (Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 19). By James A. Benn
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 198-202; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm105 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine Hezser

Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. By Israel Jacob Yuval
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 202-205; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm106 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Albert Howard

Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England. By Timothy Larsen
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 23, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 205-207; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin S. Jaffee

The Voice, the Word, the Book: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. By F. E. Peters
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 207-210; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm108 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek S. Jeffreys

Politics as a Christian Vocation: Faith and Democracy Today. By Franklin I. Gamwell
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 28, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 210-213; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Dafydd Jones

Liberal Theology: A Radical Vision. By Peter C. Hodgson
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 213-216; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm110 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kathryn Lofton

Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. By Tracy Fessenden
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 216-220; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm111 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard McGregor

Defining Islam: A Reader (Critical Categories in the Study of Religion). By Andrew Rippin
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 220-222; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm112 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barbara Newman

Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. By Caroline Walker Bynum
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 19, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 223-225; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek R. Peterson

Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. By Bilinda Straight
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 225-228; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm114 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.

The Legend of the Septuagint: From Classical Antiquity to Today. By Abraham Wasserstein and David J. Wasserstein
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 25, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 228-233; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Moshe Sluhovsky

The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena. By F. Thomas Luongo
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 2, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 233-235; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Corey D. B. Walker

In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 235-240; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian K. Wedemeyer

Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. Ed. Donald S. Lopez
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 29, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 240-243; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm119 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael A. Williams

The Secret Revelation of John. By Karen L. King
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 243-246; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm120 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenneth Zysk

The Self-Possessed. Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literture and Civilzation. By Frederick M. Smith
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on February 2, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 246-249; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfm121 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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