Like an oasis in the desert: The Israel consulate in Munich, 1948–1953

Yosef Gorny, Zionism and the Arabs 1882–1948: A Study in Ideology Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, 342 pp., U.S. $67., U.K.£35.

Robert S. Wistrich, The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Littman Library, 1989, 696 pp.

Shabtai Teveth, Ben‐Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886–1948, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. 967 pages.

Jehuda Reinharz, Hashomer Hatzair in Germany, 1931–1939, Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim Publishing House, Ltd., 1987, 246 pp.

Benjamin Akzin: From Riga to Jerusalem — A Memoir (Hebrew), The Zionist Library, Jerusalem, 1989, 369 pp; Herzl Rosenblum, Drops from the Sea (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1987, 207 pp; Dr. Meir Kahan, Carry a Fire to Kindle (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1988, 221 pp.

Uri Bar‐Joseph, Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 1987, x+254pp.,£25.     

Nazi plans and Arab collaboration: New research about old questions

Dina Porat, The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David. The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–1945, Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1990, 334 pp., $27.95.

Hagit Lavsky, Before Catastrophe, The Distinctive Path of German Zionism (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Magnes and Hassifriyah Hazionit, 1990, 292 pp.

Uri Bialer, Between East and West: Israel's Foreign Policy Orientation 1948–1956. (LSE Monographs in International Studies), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 292 pp., $35.00.

Amitzur Ilan, Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948, London, Macmillan Press, 1989, 308 pp.

Yoav Gelber, “Massada” — The Defense of Palestine during World War II (Hebrew), Ramat‐Gan: Bar‐Ilan University Press, 1990, 180 pp.

Vivian D. Lipman, Americans and the Holy Land through British Eyes, 1820–1917: A Documentary History, London, V.D. Lipman in association with The Self Publishing Association, 1989, 320 pp.

Michael J. Cohen, Truman and Israel, Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1990, 342 pp., $24.95.

Un grand rabbin sépharade en politique 1892–1923, Textes présentés par Esther Benbassa, Paris, Presses du CNRS, 1990, 261 pp., 130 F.

David Schaary, From Plain Zionism to Unity and Split in the Early History of General Zionism, 1929–1939 (Hebrew), Jerusalem, R. Mass, 1990, 294 pp.

Mission to the Diaspora, 1945–1948 (Hebrew), [Efal], Yad Tabenkin, Ghetto Fighters House and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1989, 635 pp.     

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Shulamit Laskov, ed., Haim Hissin, Memoirs and Letters of an Early Pioneer (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 229 pp.

Ilan Schori, The Dream turned into a Metropolitan — The Growth of Tel Aviv, the First Hebrew City in the World, Tel Aviv, Avivim Publishers, 423 pp.

Ran Aaronsohn. Baron Rothschild and the Colonies; The Beginnings of the Jewish Colony of Eretz Israel, 1882–1890, Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 322 pp.

Meir Avizohar, National and Social Ideals as Reflected in Mapai, 1930–1942, Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 447 pp.

Aviva Halamish, Exodus — The Real Story, Tel Aviv, The Association for the Study of Illegal Immigration in Memory of Shaul Avigur at Tel Aviv University and Am Oved, 325 pp.

Eli Shaltiel, Pinhas Rutenberg: 1879–1942, Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 2 vols., 703 pp.     

Signs of the impending apocalypse?

Allan W. Eister, ed. Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xxii + 370 pp. Tables, figures, chapter notes, references, and index. $14.50.

J. Stillson Judah. Hare Krishna and the Counterculture. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xviii + 301 pp. Tables, figures, references, selected bibliography, glossary, appendix, and index. $14.95.

B. Z. Sobel. Hebrew Christianity: The Thirteenth Tribe. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xi + 413 pp. Chapter notes, bibliography, appendix, notes, references, and index. $12.50.

Edward A. Tiryakian, ed. On the Margin of the Visible: Sociology, the Esoteric, and the Occult. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974. xv + 364 pp. Notes, bibliography, and author index. $9.95.     

REVIEW

Mogens Müller, Kirkens f?rste Bibel — Hebraica sive Graeca Veritas? Forlaget ANIS, Frederiksberg 1994, 152 pp.

Norman K. Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible in Its Social World and in Ours. The Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies. Scholars Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1993, 29 + 425 pp.     

Theories of the transcendent

Guthrie, Stewart. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xi + 290 pp. including end notes, references, figure credits, and index. $30.00 cloth.

Saler, Benson. Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. x + 292 pp. including bibliography and index. $80.00 cloth.

Torrance, Robert. The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xvii + 367 pp. including bibliography and index. $35.00 cloth.     

Religion,society, and culture

Morris, Brian. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ix + 369 pp. including chapter notes and references, selected bibliography, and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Webster, Graham. Celtic Religion in Roman Britain. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1987. 205 pp. including chapter notes and references, photographs and illustrations, abbreviations, classical sources, selected bibliography, and index. $30.00 cloth.

Weller, Robert P. Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. viii + 215 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $22.50 cloth.     

Religion and society in central Africa and East Asia

MacGaffey, Wyatt. Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. xi + 295 pp. including photographs, references, index, and glossary. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.

DeVos, George A., and Takao Sofue, eds. Religion and Family in East Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. ix + 267 pp. including chapter references and index. No price.     

War memorials and the commemoration of the Israeli war of independence, 1948–1956

Gershon Greenberg, The Holy Land in American Religious Thought, 1620–1948: The Symbiosis of American Religious Approaches to Scripture's Sacred Territory, Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1994.

Steven Beller, Herzl, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991, 161 pp.

Theodor Herzl: Briefe und Tagebucher, Briefe 1895–1898, Vol. 4, 1990, and Briefe 1898–1900, Vol. 5, 1991, Barbara Schäfer et al, eds., Frankfurt/M., Propyläen Verlag.

Jacques Kornberg, Theodar Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1993, 272 pp., $24.95.

Michael Berkowitz, Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, £29.95.

Laura Zittrain-Eisenberg, My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900–1948, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1994, 211 pp., $29.95.

Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al‐Hajj Amin al‐Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, New York, Columbia University Press (Revised Edition), 1991.

Hava Eshkoli (Wagman), Silence: Mapai and the Holocaust — 1939–1942, Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 1994.

Yechiam Weitz, Aware but Helpless: Mapai and the Hobcaust — 1943–1945, Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 1994.

Jehuda Reinharz, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. xii, 498 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations, £32.50.

Dov Gavish, Land and Map: The Survey of Palestine, 1920–1948 (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Yad Izhak Ben‐Zvi, 1991, 297 pp.

David H. Shpiro, From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years 1933–1945, New York, Pergamon Press, 1994, xxxvi + 208 pp.

Asher Susser, On Both Banks of the Jordan: A Political Biography of Wasfi al‐Tall, Frank Cass, London, 1994.

Samuel Heilman, Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra‐Orthodox Jewry. New York, Schocken Books, 1992, xxxi, 394 pp., $27.50.

Yosef Gorny, The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity, New York, New York University Press, 1994, xii+279 pp.     

The Images of Arabs and Jews as a factor in British policy towards Palestine

Moshe Davis and Ben‐Arieh Yehoshua, eds., With Eyes Toward Zion, (Volume III, Western Societies and the Holy Land), New York, Praeger, 1991, 304 pp., $55.00.

Sergio I. Minerbi, The Vatican and Zionism, Conflict in the Holy Land 1895–1925, translated from Hebrew by Arnold Schwartz (Studies in Jewish History Series) (Mus.), New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, 272 pp., $30.00.

Ephraim Even, The Schism in the 1922 Zionist Movement: Why Jabotinsky Established the New Zionist Organization (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Rubin Mass Ltd., 1992, 243 pp.

I. Alfassi, ed., Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization): Collection of Archival Sources and Documents, April 1937‐April 1941, Tel Aviv. Vol. I, 1990, 472 pp.; Vol. II, 1992, 472 pp.

Abraham S. Hyman, The Undefeated, Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 1993,486 pp., $24.95.

Yemima Rosenthal, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Volume 6, 1951, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1991, 916 pp. and Yehoshua Freundlich, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Volume 7, 1952, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1992, 774 pp.

Nitza Ben‐Dov, Notes on Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Contents in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon, New York, E.J. Brill, 1993, 168 pp., $57.25.

Morris, Benny. Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, xxii+470 pp.

Laurence J. Silberstein, ed., New Perspectives on Israeli History, New York, New York University Press, 1991, ix+281 pp.

Itamar Rabinovich, The Road Not Taken: Early Arab‐Israeli Negotiations, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, xi+259 pp., $22.95.

Benny Morris, Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, xii+470 pp.     

Hazor and egypt: An egyptological & ancient near-eastern perspective

T. Muraoka (ed), Studies in Ancient Hebrew Semantics (Abr‐Nahrain Supplement 4; Peeters Press, Leuven, 1995). Pp vii + 108.

Loren D. Crow, The Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120–234). Their Place in Israelite History and Religion (SBLDS 148; Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1996. pp xiii +226).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Gabriel A. Almond , R. Scott Appleby , and Emmanuel Sivan : Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Craig D. Atwood : Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004; pp. xi + 283. Nora Berend : At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and “Pagans” in Medieval Hungary, c. 1000‐1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; pp. 340. Peggy Brock , ed.: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2005; pp. x + 262. Martinus Cawley , trans.: Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulfus, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003; pp. xlvii + 258. J. P. Daughton : An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880‐1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 330. Khaled El ‐Rouayheb : Before Homosexuality in the Arab‐Islamic World, 1500‐1800. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005; pp. x + 210. J. Albert Harrill : Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social and Moral Dimensions. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. Timothy Insoll : Archaeology, Ritual, Religion. London: Routledge, 2004; pp. 184. Jean ‐René Jannot : Religion in Ancient Etruria, trans. Jane K. Whitehead. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005; pp. xviii + 230.
Nancy Thomson De Grummond and Erika Simon , eds.: The Religion of the Etruscans. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 226. Clayton N. Jefford : The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. R. M. Jensen : Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005. Sara Raup Johnson : Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson : The Life and Miracles of Thekla, a Literary Study. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Mathew Kuefler , ed.: The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. pp. 348. Amy ‐Jill Levine , Dale C. Allison J, r ,., and John Dominic Crossan , eds.: The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006; pp. x + 440. Keith Luria : Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005; pp. xxxviii + 357. Peter McCullough , ed.: Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; p. 491. Kari Miettinen : On the Way to Whiteness: Christianization, Conflict and Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910‐1965. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden, 2005; pp. 370. John Milbank : Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason, 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; pp. 448. Lynette Olson : The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. xvii + 248. David Shankland , ed.: Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage: In the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck, 1878‐1920, 2 vols. Istanbul: Isis, 2005; pp. 495. Nigel Yates : The Religious Condition of Ireland 1770‐1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xxiv + 401.     

BOOK REVIEWS

R. Horsley , ed.: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 1, Christian Origins. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005. Irfan Shahîd : Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Vol. 2, Part 1: Toponomy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002; pp. xxxvi + 469, 15 maps, 8 plates. Daniel Hobbins : The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Ernan Mc Mullin , ed.: The Church and Galileo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. pp. xii + 408. Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands , eds.: Scottish Christianity in the Modern World. Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000. pp. 323. Adrian Burdon : Authority and Order: John Wesley and his Preachers. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. pp. vi + 117. Max Charlesworth , Françoise Dussart and Howard Morphy , eds.: Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. pp. xiv + 324. André Möller : Ramadan in Java: The Joy and Jihad of Ritual Fasting. Lun University: Lund, Sweden, 2005. pp. 451. John Clifford Holt : The Buddhist Viṣnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. pp. 441. Kristi L. Wiley : Historical Dictionary of Jainism. Lanham, ML: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004. pp. 287. Iqbal Singh , S. Radhakrishan , and Arvind Sharma , with an introduction by Matthew T. Kapstein : The Buddhism Omnibus — Comprising Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada and The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. xxii + 818. Aline H. Kalbian : Sexing the Church: Gender, Power, and Ethics in Contemporary Catholicism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. pp. x + 169. Dianne Kirby , ed.: Religion and the Cold War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. pp. 245. Nils Holger Petersen , Claus Clüver , and Nicholas Bell , eds.: Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and Their Representations in the Arts, 1000–2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodpi, 2004. pp. xvi + 490. Craig Wright : The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology and Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard (eds.): Mystics: Presence and Aporia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Frances S. Adeney : Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003; pp. xi + 226. John Moorhead : Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World, Harlow Essex, Pearson Education, 1999.     

Coming out of purdah?: Two studies of Rajput women

Minturn, Leigh Sita's Daughters: Coming out of Purdah: The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiii + 371 pp. including bibliography, appendices, glossaries, and index. $45.00 cloth

Harlan, Lindsey. Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press. xiv + 260 pp. including appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. $40.00 cloth.     

Book reviews

Selwyn Ilan Troen and Benjamin Pinkus, eds., Organizing Rescue: National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period, London, Frank Cass, 1992, pp. xi, 424.

Idith Zertal, From Catastrophe to Power: Jewish Illegal Immigration to Palestine 1945–1948 (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 1996. 674 pp.; notes; bibliography; index.

Yoav Gelber, Jewish‐Transjordanian Relations, 1921–48, London: Frank Cass, 1997. 320 pp., glossary, sources and bibliography, index.

Moshe Shemesh, The Palestinian Entity, 1959–1974; Arab Politics and the PLO, Second (Revised) Edition, London: Frank Cass, 1996. xxiii, 433pp., bibliography, index.

Yeshayahu A. Jelinek, ed., Zwischen Moral und Realpolitik: Deutsch‐israelisch Bezeihungen 1945–1965: Eine Doku‐mentensammlung. Gelingen: Bleicher Verlag, 1997. 687 pp.

Angelika Timm, Jewish Claims Against East Germany: Moral Obligations and Pragmatic Policy. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1997, xi + 291pp.     

Humanized nature and objective spirit

Valeri, Valerio, (Paula Wissing, transl.) Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xxviii + 446 pp. including notes with references, plates, and index. $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Heesterman, J. C. The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 255 pp. including notes with references and index. $32.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Charlesworth, Max, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, and Kenneth Mad‐dock, eds. Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology. Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xii + 458 pp. including chapter references and index. $35.00 cloth.     

Tangentopoli or the democratization of corruption: Considerations on the end of Italy's first republic

Emilio Sereni (1997) History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape, translated and Introduction by R. Burr Litchfield. Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Italian History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), pp. i‐xliv, 1–369, ISBN 0–691012164 hardback; ISBN 0–691012156 paperback.

Peter Brand and Lino Pertile (eds) (1996) The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1–701.

Bruno Bongiovanni and Nicola Tranfaglia (eds) (1996) Dizionario storico dell'Italia unita (Rome‐Bari: Laterza), pp. 1–1031, 95,000 lire, ISBN 88–420–5081–4.

Giuseppe Maranini (1995) Storia del potere in Italia 1848–1967, prefazione di Angelo Panebianco, 2nd edn (Milan: Corbaccio), pp. 1–530; Mariuccia Salvati (1997) Riflessioni sul Leadership nella storia dell'Italia contemporoneo (Rome‐Bari: Laterza), pp. 1–156.

Domenico Del Rio (1996) I Gesuiti e l'Italia. Storia di passioni, di trionfi e di amarezze (Milan: Corbaccio), pp. 1–522, ISBN 88–7972–111–9 hardback.

Anna Foa (1998) Giordano Bruno (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–107, 16,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–06604–7.

Roland Sarti (1997) Mazzini. A Life for the Religion of Politics (Westport, Conn.: Praeger), pp. 1–249, ISBN 0–275–95080–8 hardback.

Jonathan Dunnage (1997) The Italian Police and the Rise of Fascism: a Case Study of the Province of Bologna, 1897–1925 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger), pp. i‐xvi, 1–198, $57.95, ISBN 0–275–95286–1 hardback.

Jane Slaughter (1997) Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945 (Denver, Colo: Arden Press) pp. i‐xx, 1–171, $32.00, ISBN 0–912869–13–5 hardback.

Gabriele Turi (ed.) (1997) Storia dell'editoria nell'ltalia contemporanea (Florence: Giunti Gruppo Editoriale), pp. 1–503, 48,000 lire, ISBN 88–09–21236–3.

Carlo Guarnieri and Patrizia Pederzoli (1997) La democrazia giudiziaria (Bologna: Il Mulino), pp. 1–186, 18,000 lire, ISBN 88–15–05706–4 paperback.

Alessandro Brogi (1996) L'ltalia e l'egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo (Scandicci (Florence): La Nuova Italia. Editrice), pp. 1–425 pages (including appendix of documents, bibliography, and index of names), 40,000 lire, ISBN 88–221–1752–2.     

Trance and society

Erika Bourguignon, ed. Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973. x+389 pp. Tables, illustrations, references, appendix, notes, and index. $12.50.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Stan ‐Michel Pellistrandi , Gesche Landais , and Christine Pellistrandi (eds), Le Nain de Tillemont et l’historiagraphie de l’Antiquité romaine. Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann (eds), The Jesus Movement. A Social History of its First Century. Kathleen Kamerick , Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500. Michael P. Carroll , Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. John Wilkinson , Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Tomaz Mastnak , Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Sharon Farmer , Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor. John W. O'Malley , Trent and all That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Karin J. Mac Hardy , War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interactions. Jeffrey R. Watt , Choosing Death. Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Felicity Heal , Reformation in Britain and Ireland. David Boyd Haycock , William Stukeley. Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England. Francis Harris , Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. Robert Hymes , Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Anthony O'Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion, and Politics. Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History. Pat Jalland , Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918. Colin Holden (ed.), People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne's Culture: Papers to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847–1997. Kenneth P. Serbin , Secret Dialogues: Church‐State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Yamaji Aizan , Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. Thich Nhat Hanh , compiled by Jack Lawlor , Friends on the Path — Living Spiritual Communities. Armand L. Mauss , All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Perceptions of Race and Lineage. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton (eds), Women and Twentieth‐Century Protestantism. Anthony O'Mahony and Atuallah Siddiqui (eds), Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Karen L. King : What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; pp. xii + 343. Michael Frassetto , ed.: The Year 1000: Religious and Social Responses to the Turning of the First Millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xi + 278. K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn : Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner : Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002; pp. xi + 321. Patricia Londoño ‐Vega : Religion, Culture and Society in Colombia. Medellín and Antioquia, 1850–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; pp. xiii + 402. Colin Holden : Church in a Landscape. Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Group, 2002; pp. xix + 324. Jeffrey J. Kripal : Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xviii + 412. William James , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Centenary ed. (First published New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902) London and New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. lxiii + 415.