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Patton E. Burchett
The ‘Magical’ Language of Mantra
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 4, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 807-843; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ira Chernus
The War in Iraq and the Academic Study of Religion
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 27, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 844-873; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark S. Cladis
Painting Landscapes of Religion in America: Four Models of Religion in Democracy
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 27, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 874-904; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn088 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine Keller
The Apophasis of Gender: A Fourfold Unsaying of Feminist Theology
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on November 4, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 905-933; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn090 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jason A. Springs
What Cultural Theorists of Religion Have to Learn from Wittgenstein; Or, How to Read Geertz as a Practice Theorist
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 27, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 934-969; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn087 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Afe Adogame
African Immigrant Religions in America. Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 10, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 970-973; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn060 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert M. Baum
From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions. By James L. Cox
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 4, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 973-977; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn081 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zachary Braiterman
Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust. Edited by Steven T. Katz, Scholomo Biderman, and Gershon Greenberg
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 7, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 977-979; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn082 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William F. Bristow
Kant on God (Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology). By Peter Byrne
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 979-983; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn061 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naftali S. Cohn
Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice. By Michael L. Satlow
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 4, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 983-986; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn062 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine Crawford
Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance. By Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 986-989; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James C. Dobbins
Jokei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan. By James L. Ford
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 989-992; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn083 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Draper
The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism. By J.L. Schellenberg
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 4, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 992-996; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn064 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marla Frederick
Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement. By Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 30, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 996-999; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn065 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eugene V. Gallagher
The Branch Davidians of Waco: The History and Beliefs of an Apocalyptic Sect. By Kenneth G. C. Newport
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 999-1002; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn084 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Holly Gayley
How to Behave: Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860–1930. By Anne Ruth Hansen
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 19, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1002-1004; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn077 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruce Grant
Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. By Rane Willerslev
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1004-1007; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn085 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul J. Griffiths
The Uses of Paradox (Religion, Self-Transformation, and the Absurd). By Matthew Bagger
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1007-1010; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn066 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Hulsether
The Secrets of the Kingdom: Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration. By Hugh B. Urban
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1010-1013; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn067 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zayn Kassam
Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop. Edited by Miriam Cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1013-1018; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Kavka
Discovering Levinas. By Michael L. Morgan
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1018-1021; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeffrey L. Kosky
After the Death of God. By John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Jeffrey W. Robbins
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1021-1025; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Friedmann Marquardt
Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America's Newest Immigrants. By Fred Kniss and Paul D. Numrich
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1025-1028; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn078 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William McCants
Arguing the Just War in Islam. By John Kelsay
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1028-1031; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renée Levine Melammed
Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World. By Miriam Bodian
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1031-1033; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeffrey Moran
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. By Michael Lienesch
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1033-1036; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn079 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terry Rey
Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality. Edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on October 7, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1036-1039; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn080 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aaron Stalnaker
The Politics of Mourning in Early China. By Miranda Brown
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1039-1043; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn072 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Theodore Louis Trost
Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry. By Terry Lindvall
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1043-1046; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn073 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Voas
In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change. By Michelle Dillon and Paul Wink
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Advance Access published on September 6, 2008
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1046-1049; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Michael L. Satlow
The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed
J Am Acad Relig 2008 76: 1050; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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