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John Nemec
Translation and the Study of Indian Religions
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 13, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 757-780; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sa‘diyya Shaikh
In Search of al-Insan: Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 27, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 781-822; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Focus Unit: Sanctified Violence in History (An Introduction)
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 823-824; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Frilingos
"It Moves Me to Wonder": Narrating Violence and Religion under the Roman Empire
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 4, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 825-852; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brent D. Shaw
State Intervention and Holy Violence: Timgad/Paleostrovsk/Waco
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 17, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 853-894; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Sizgorich
Sanctified Violence: Monotheist Militancy as the Tie That Bound Christian Rome and Islam
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on December 2, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 895-921; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Weitzman
Mimic Jews and Jewish Mimics in Antiquity: A Non-Girardian Approach to Mimetic Rivalry
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 6, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 922-940; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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William Wood
On the New Analytic Theology, or: The Road Less Traveled
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 3, 2009
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John D. Barbour
The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys. By Neil J. Smelser
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 21, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 961-964; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Douglas E. Cowan
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. By Jeffrey J. Kripal
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on August 26, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 964-968; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer Eichman
Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China. By Beata Grant
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 29, 2009
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Christoph Emmrich
Siva in Trouble. Festivals and Rituals at the Pasupatinatha Temple of Deopatan. By Axel Michaels
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 3, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 971-974; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp064 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy Fitzgerald
Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Religion. By M. D. Stringer
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 27, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 974-982; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp065 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory Price Grieve
E-religion: A Critical Appraisal of Religious Discourse on the World Wide Web. By Anatasia Karaflogka
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 29, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 982-987; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp060 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet. By Hildegard Diemberger
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 27, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 987-990; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald James Larson
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future. By Martha C. Nussbaum
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 27, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 990-993; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp061 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul R. Powers
Situating Islam: the Past and Future of an Academic Discipline. By Aaron W. Hughes
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 29, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 994-996; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp059 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kevin Vose
The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet. By Jonathan C. Gold
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 30, 2009
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 997-999; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp062 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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"In This Issue" for Issue 77(3)
J Am Acad Relig 2009 77: 1000; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfp075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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