The Binding of a God: A Study of the Basis of Idolatry

ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN, by LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES TOD, edited by WILLIAM CKOOKE, 3 vols. Oxford University Press. London : Milford. Reviewed by M. Longworth Dames.

THE DENDROGLYPHS OR “CARVED TREES” OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By R. ETHERIDGE, Junr. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological Series, No. 3. Sydney: W. A. Gullick, Govt. Printer. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

DAS WEIB IM ALTINDISCHEN EPOS : EIN BEITRAG ZUR INDISCHEN UND ZUR VERGLEICHENDEN KULTURGESCHICHTE. Von JOHANN JACOB MEYER. Wilhelm Heims. Leipzig, 1915. M. 15. Reviewed by W. H. D. Rouse.

MAGIC IN NAMES AND IN OTHER THINGS, by EDWARD CLODD. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1920. 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.     

咽喉神:一种颇具特色的地方性戏神

中国的戏神崇拜可溯至明代,汤显祖《宜黄县戏神清源师庙记》即为显证,究其种类,则颇为繁夥,有的地方供唐明皇或后唐庄宗,有的则供雷海青、黄幡绰,还有的供奉喜神、二郎、音神、翼宿星君、窦元帅、三     

冷战后宗教与美国外交——动力、路线与机制

冷战后,宗教对美国外交的影响日益走向组织化、法制化和机制化,呈现出以宗教利益集团为动力、以在国会推进1998年国际宗教自由法为路线、以国务院国际宗教自由办公室和国会国际宗教自由委员会互动合作为机制的发展趋势。在此背景下,美国对华外交中也凸显宗教因素。     

Idolatry and the Polemics of World-Formation from Philo to Augustine

This article examines the association of idolatry with erroneous ideas about the natural world in the writings of late antique Jewish and Christian authors. It follows two polemical genres. The first is the hexaemeral commentaries composed by Philo of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea and Augustine, which positioned the hexaemeron against the background of natural philosophy and used various critiques of idolatry to revise or refute pagan natural philosophy. The second genre is that of heresiology initiated by Irenaeus of Lyon and adapted by Augustine to refute Gnostic and Manichaean cosmological myths and disregard for the creation account in Genesis. The article analyses a variety of ways in which the prohibitions against idolatry figured in methodological questions about how to conceptualize the natural world, how to locate the sources of conceptual error, and how to distinguish those errors from truth.     

America's God

Book reviewed in this article:
Mark Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln