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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED America y las Islas del Pacífico. (Madrid: José Porrúa Türanzas, S.A.) A catalogue . Aronowicz, Annette. Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Péguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare. [Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.] (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1998. Pp. xv, 185. $39.50.) Aubert, R. (Ed.). Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques. Fascicule 154: Japon-Jean Becchetti de Fabriano; Fascicule 155. Jean Becchetti de Fabriano- Jean III d'Ermeland et Supplément au tome XXVL. (Paris: Letouzey etAné. [1997.] Cols. 1025-1280; 1281-1512. 290F;293 F.) Barnes, Andrew E. The Social Dimension ofPiety:Associative Life and Devotional Change in the Penitent Confraternities of Marseilles (14911 792). [Theological Inquiries, Studies in Contemporary Biblical and Theological Problems.] (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press. 1994. Pp. x, 285. $ 1 2.95 paperback .) Barrett, Elinore M. "The Geography of Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed by Spanish Explorers, 1541-1598." [Latin American Institute Research Paper Series No. 30.] (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. 1997. Pp. iii, 43. Paperback .) Behe, MichaelJ. Darwin's Black Box.The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. (NewYork: Simon & Schuster. 1998. Pp. xii, 307. $13.00 paperback.) Bergren, Theodore A. Sixth Ezra.The Text and Origin. (NewYork: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 282. $49.95.) Brucker, Gene. Florence.The Golden Age, 1131-1737. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. Pp. 278. $29.95 paperback.) Lavishly and beautifully illustrated in full color. Burdick, Michael A. For God and the Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina . [SUNY Series in Religion, Culture and Society] (Albany: State University of NewYork Press. 1996. Pp. xi, 283. $21.95 paperback.) Burton, Janet. Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300. [Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.] (NewYork: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 354. $69.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.) Calendar of Documents and Related Historical Materials in the Archival Center, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, for the Most Reverend Thaddeus Atnat, CM, 1853-1878. Prepared by Sister Mary Rose Cunningham, C.S.C. 632 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED633 With a Preface and Historical Introduction by Francis J. Weber. (Mission Hills, Calif.: Saint Francis Historical Society. 1994. Pp. civ, 143) Calendar of Documents and Related Historical Materials in the Archival Center, Archdiocese ofLos Angeles, for the Most Reverend Francis Mora, 1871-1894. Prepared by Sister Mary Rose Cunningham, C.S.C. With a Preface and Historical Introduction by Francis J. Weber. (Mission Hills, Calif.: Saint Francis Historical Society. 1994. Pp. xlvi,92.) Cazier, Pierre. Isidore de Seville et la Naissance de l'Espagne catholique. [Théologie Historique, Volume 96.] (Paris: Beauchesne. 1994. Pp. vi, 329. 195 FF paperback.) Chase, Steven L. (Ed.). Doors ofUnderstanding:Conversations on Global Spirituality in Honor ofEwert Cousins. (Quincy, IU.: Franciscan Press. 1997. Pp. xxxiv, 455. $27.95.) One of the essays is "Was Francis of Assist a Mystic ?" by Bernard McGinn (pp. 145-174). Colahan, Clark. The Visions of Sor María de Agreda: Writing Knowledge and Power. (Tuscon: University ofArizona Press. 1994. Pp. Lx, 194. $35.00.) Crosby, Everett U. Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-Century England:A Study of the 'Mensa Episcopalis.' [Cambrige Studies in Medieval Life and Thought.] (NewYork: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xiv, 450. $64.95.) Cubitt, Catherine. Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c.650-c.850. [Studies in the Early History of Britain.] (NewYork: Leicester University Press. Distributed by St. Martin's Press, Inc. 1995. Pp. x, 363) Debus,Allen G., and Michael T. Walton (Eds.). Reading the Book ofNature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution. [Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies,Volume 4L] (Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth CenturyJournal Publishers, Inc. 1998. Pp. xvi, 280. $45.00.) Delany, Sheila. Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in FifteenthCentury England, The Work of Osbern Bokenham. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 235. Paperback.) Demerath III, N.J., Peter Dobkin Hall,Terry Schmitt,and Rhys H.Williams (Eds.). Sacred Companies: OrganizationalAspects ofReligion and ReligiousAspects of Organizations. [Religion in America.] (NewYork: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xxiv, 410. $55.00.) One of the essays in Part II, "Historical Sources and Patterns of U.S. Religious Organizations," is Chapter 8,"Ethnocultural Cleavages and the Growth of Church Membership in the United States, 1861-1930...

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