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Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74.4 (2006) 1045-1052

Index to Volume 74 (2006)

Editor's Note

Editor's Note, Charles Mathewes, 1

Introduction

Religion and Secrecy, Charles Mathewes, 273

Presidential Address

On Book Burnings and Book Burners: Reflections on the Power (and Powerlessness) of Ideas, Hans J. Hillerbrand, 593

Articles

A Secret both Sinister and Salvific: Secrecy and Normativity in Light of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Jonathan Malesic, 446
All Generalizations Are Bad: Postmodernism on Theories, Robert A. Segal, 157
An Eternal Return All Over Again: The Religious Conversation Endures, Donald Wiebe, 674
Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self, Lawrence M. Wills, 902
Between the Lines: Exceeding Historicism in the Study of Religion, Tyler Roberts, 697
Comparative Religious Traditions, Peter Ochs, 125
Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought: Translations and Transitions, Ebrahim Moosa, 107
Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist Nuns' Order, Reiko Ohnuma, 861
Defining Judaism: Accounting for "Religions" in the Study of Religion, Michael L. Satlow, 837
Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America, Hugh B. Urban, 356
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Practical and Doctrinal Significance of Secrecy in Shi`ite Islam, Maria Dakake, 324 [End Page 1045]
Holy War in Modern Judaism? "Mitzvah War" and the Problem of the "Three Vows," Reuven Firestone, 954
Honoring the Journey: The Wayward Paths of Conversion in the Catholic Worker and Camphill Movements, Dan McKanan, 926
Is the National Prayer Breakfast Surrounded by a "Christian Mafia"? Religious Publicity and Secrecy Within the Corridors of Power, D. Michael Lindsay, 390
"It's a Lie. There's No Truth in It! It's a Sin!": On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves, Russell T. McCutcheon, 720
On the Future of the Study of Religion in the Academy, Paul J. Griffiths, 66
On the Future of Religious Ethics: Keeping Religious Ethics Religious and Ethical, William Schweiker, 135
Parsi and Hindu Traditional and Nontraditional Responses to Christian Conversion in Bombay, 1839–45, Jesse S. Palsetia, 615
Reflections on Tradition and Inquiry in the Study of Religions, Gavin Flood, 47
Religion and Secrecy After September 11, Michael Barkun, 275
Revised: Comparative Religious Traditions, Peter Ochs, 483
Secretism and the Apotheosis of Duvalier, Paul Christopher Johnson, 420
Sources of History: Myth and Image, Nancy K. Levene, 79
The Discipline and Its Other: The Dialectic of Alterity in the Study of Religion, José Ignacio Cabezón, 21
The Future of Religion, Graham Ward, 179
The Final Frontier: Secrecy, Identity, and the Media in the Rise and Fall of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Julius H. Bailey, 302
The Politics of Nonduality: Reassessing the Work of Transcendence in Modern Sikh Theology, Arvind Mandair, 646
Theology in Modernity's Wake, Ellen T. Armour, 7

Review Essays

Religion and Secrecy: A Bibliographic Essay, Ann Williams Duncan, 469
Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay, Slavica Jakelic and Jessica Starling, 194

Responses and Rejoinders

A Response to Courtright, Russell T. McCutcheon, 755
Reply to Ochs, Ellen T. Armour, 19
Reply to Schweiker, José Ignacio Cabezón, 45
Reply to Levene, Gavin Flood, 64
Reply to Armour, Paul J. Griffiths, 77
Reply to Cabezón, Nancy K. Levene, 105
Reply to Griffiths, Ebrahim Moosa, 122
Reply to Segal, Peter Ochs, 133
Reply to Flood, William Schweiker, 155
Reply to Moosa, Robert A. Segal, 176
Reply to Castelli, Graham Ward, 192 [End Page 1046]
Reply to Segal, Peter Ochs, 499
Response to Armour, Peter Ochs, 16
Response to Cabezón, William Schweiker, 39
Response to Flood, Nancy K. Levene, 59
Response to Griffiths, Ellen Armour, 75
Response to Levene, José Ignacio Cabezón, 102
Response to Moosa, Paul J. Griffiths, 119
Response to Ochs, Robert Segal, 129
Response to Schweiker, Gavin Flood, 152
Response to Segal, Ebrahim Moosa, 172
Response to Ward, Elizabeth A. Castelli, 187
Response to Ochs, Robert A. Segal, 495
The Self-Serving Humility of Disciplining Liberal Humanist Scholars: A Response to Russell McCutcheon, Paul B. Courtright, 751

Book Reviews

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