BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: K aren L. K ing : What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; pp. xii + 343. M ichael F rassetto , ed.: The Year 1000: Religious and Social Responses to the Turning of the First Millennium . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; pp. xi + 278. K. A shley and P. S heingorn : Writing Faith: Text, Sign and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. J effrey B ruce B eshoner : Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union . Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002; pp. xi + 321. P atricia L ondoño ‐V ega : Religion, Culture and Society in Colombia. Medellín and Antioquia, 1850–1930 . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; pp. xiii + 402. C olin H olden : Church in a Landscape . Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Group, 2002; pp. xix + 324. J effrey J. K ripal : Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xviii + 412. W illiam J ames , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , Centenary ed. (First published New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902) London and New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. lxiii + 415.