Book Reviews
- Michael Banton: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion
- essays by Geertz, Turner, Spiro, Bradbury, and Winter
- Andrew Beatty: Varieties of Javanese Religion
An Anthropological Account
- Judith Becker: Gamelan Stories
Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java
- Edwin Bernbaum: Sacred Mountains of the World*
- religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
- Steve Bruce: God is Dead
Secularization in the West
- Fred W. Clothey: Religion in India: A Historical Introduction
- straightforward and accessible
- Paul Davies: The Mind of God
- can physics answer everything?
- Raymond Firth: Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
- essays on the essentially human character of religious phenomena
- Richard Foltz: Religions of the Silk Road
Premodern Patterns of Globalization
- Garth Fowden: Empire to Commonwealth
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
- Stewart Guthrie: Faces in the Clouds**
A New Theory of Religion
- David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Bhatta Jayanta: Much Ado About Religion
- a Sanskrit religious drama from 900 AD
- Mark Juergensmeyer: Terror in the Mind of God
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
- Niels Kastfelt: Religion and African Civil Wars
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa
- Thomas P. Kasulis: Shinto
The Way Home
- Maureen Korp: Sacred Art of the Earth
Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
- Edward J. Larson: Trial and Error
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
- Brian Morris: Anthropological Studies of Religion**
An Introductory Text
- Brent Nongbri: Before Religion
A History of a Modern Concept
- Ronald L. Numbers: The Creationists*
The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
- Ninian Smart: The World's Religions
Old Traditions and Modern Transformations
- Raymond M. Smullyan: The Tao is Silent*
- Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern: Millennial Markers
- papers on Pacific millenarianism
- Anna Sun: Confucianism as a World Religion
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
- Tony Swain: A Place for Strangers
Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being
- Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin: Tao Te Ching
- "true words aren't charming; charming words aren't true"
- Gore Vidal: Creation*
- the grandson of Zoroaster meets Buddha, Gosala, Lao Tse and Confucius
- Yi Mun-yol: Son of Man
- a theological-historical detective novel
- Anthony C. Yu: State and Religion in China
Historical and Textual Perspectives
See also:
mysticism |
mythology |
philosophy