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- Journal of the American Academy of Religion
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 74, Number 2, June 2006
- pp. 565-591
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Ackerman, Susan, When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. Columbia University Press, 2005. 371 pages. $45.00.
Al-Rahim, Muddathir 'Abd, Harold Coward, Robert E. Florida, Peter J. Haas, and William Brackney, series eds., Human Rights and the World's Major Religions. Praeger Publishers, 2005. Five-volume series, 1556 total pages. $399.95.
Aung-Thwin, Michael A., The Mists of Ramañña: The Legend That Was Lower Burma. University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 433 pages. $59.00.
Bach, Alice, Religion, Politics, Media in the Broadband Era. Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2004. 200 pages. $70.00.
Bailey, Julius H., Around the Family Alter: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1965–1900. University Press of Florida, 2005. 151 pages. $59.95.
Baird, Robert D., Religion and Law in Independent India: Second Enlarged Edition. Manohar, 2005 (originally published in 1993 by Manohar). 518 pages. $48.95.
Balagangadbara, S. N., "The Heathen in His Blindness . . . ": Asia, The West and the Dynamic of Religion. Manohar, 2005. (Second edition with corrections; originally published in 1994 by E. J. Brill). $269.95.
Barmash, Pamela, Homicide in the Biblical World. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 253 pages. $70.00.
Bartsch, Shadi, and Thomas Bartscherer, eds., Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. University of Chicago Press, 2005. 346 pages. $29.00. [End Page 565]
Beal, Timothy, K., Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith. Beacon Press, 2005. 216 pages. $24.95.
Beck, Guy L., ed., Alternative Krishnas: Regional and Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Day. State University of New York Press, 2005. 217 pages. $65.00.
Bennett, James B., Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans. Princeton University Press, 2005. 319 pages. $39.50.
Bergen, Wesley J., Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. T&T Clark International, 2005. 148 pages. $95.00.
Berger, Michael S., ed., The Emergence of Ethical Man: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Toras HoRav Foundation (by Ktav Publishing House, Inc.), 2005. 214 pages. $25.00.
Bodiford, William M., ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya, Essays Presented in Honor of Professor Stanley Weinstein. University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 317 pages. $48.00.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 6: Ethics. Translated from the Geran edition edtied by Ilse Tödt, Heinz Eduard Tödt, Ernst Feil, and Clifford Green; English edition edited by Clifford J. Green; translated by Reinhard Krauss, Charles C. West, and Douglas W. Stott. Fortress Press, 2005. 593 pages. $55.00.
Bracken, Joseph A., ed., World without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective. William B. Eerdmans, 2005. 238 pages. $30.00.
Brown, Christopher Boyd, Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation. Harvard University Press, 2005. 298 pages. $39.95.
Brown, Judith Anne, John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. 288 pages. $25.00.
Brown, Amy Benson, and Karen M. Poremski, eds., Roads to Reconciliation: Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005. 279 pages. $39.95.
Buell, Denise Kimber, Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. Columbia University Press, 2005. 257 pages. $45.00.
Buswell, Robert E., Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Tradition. University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 294 pages. $40.00.
Carson, Clayborne, ed., The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr., Volume V: A Threshold of A New Decade, January 1959–December 1960. University of California Press, 2005. 673 pages. $50.00.
Cassedy, Steven, Dostoevsky's Religion. Stanford University Press, 2005. 222 pages. $49.50. [End Page 566]
Charlesworth, Max, Françoise Dussart, and Howard Morphy, eds., Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. 324 pages. $94.95.
Chatterie, Ranjit, Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2005. 207 pages. $62.95.
Cicovacki, Predrag, ed., Destined for Evil?—The Twentieth-Century Responses. University of Rochester Press, 2005. 296 pages. $75.00.
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