Review Essays

Book Reviewed in this article: RECENT FIELDWORK STUDIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY JAINS THE ASSEMBLY OF LISTENERS: JAINS IN SOCIETY Edited by Michael ORGANIZING JAINISM IN INDIA AND ENGLAND By Marcus Banks RICHES AND RENUNCIATION: RELIGION, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY AMONG THE JAINS By James Laidlaw DÉLIVRANCE ET CONVTVIALITÉ: LE SYSTEME CULINAIRE DES JAINA By Marie‐Claude Mahias LA VOIE JAINA: HISTOIRE, SPIRITUALITÉ, VIE DES ASCÈTES PÈLERINES DE L'INDE By N. Shântâ THE ARCHETYPAL ACTIONS OF RITUAL: A THEORY OF RITUAL ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAIN RITE OF WORSHIP By Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw ABSENT LORD: ASCETICS AND KINGS IN A JAIN RITUAL CULTURE By Lawrence A. Babb RECENT RESEARCH ON JAINISM SCRIPTURE AND COMMUNITY: COLLECTED ESSAYS ON THE JAINS By Kendall W. Folkert; edited by John E. Cort GENDER AND SALVATION: JAEVA DEBATES ON THE SPIRITUAL LIBERATION OF WOMEN By Padmanabh S. Jaini; with a foreword by Robert P. Goldman NON‐VIOLENCE TO ANIMALS, EARTH, AND SELF IN ASIAN TRADITIONS By Christopher Key Chappie THE CLEVER ADULTERESS AND OTHER STORIES: A TREASURY OF JAIN LITERATURE Edited by Phyllis Granoff ÁVAŚYAKA‐STUDIEN: INTRODUCTION GÉNÉRALE ET TRADUCTIONS By Nalini Balbir A NEW POINT OF DEPARTURE IN SIXTEENTH‐CENTURY STUDIES: THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE REFORMATION THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE REFORMATION Hans J. Hillerbrand, Editor‐in‐Chief COMMON GROUND FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL: ELIEZER SCHWEID AND THE USES OF JEWISH THOUGHT DEMOCRACY AND HALAKHAH By Eliezer Schweid WRESTLING UNTIL DAYBREAK By Eliezer Schweid IN SEARCH OF THE EVANGELICAL SELF: HISTORY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND RELIGIOUS SUBCULTURES IN AMERICA GOD'S CARESS: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PURITAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE By Charles Lloyd THE SPIRITUAL SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE: THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PERSONAL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY NEW ENGLAND By Richard Rabinowitz SPARE THE CHILD: THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF PUNISHMENT AND THE IMPACT OF PHYSICAL ABUSE By Philip Greven RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLY AND PROTESTANT EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA By Julius H. Rubin NAMING THE ANTICHRIST: THE HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN OBSESSION By Robert C. Fuller TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY: MODELS OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING THE TRANSPERSONAL: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING By John Rowan TRANSPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE DIMENSION BEYOND PSYCHOSYNTHESIS By Roberto Assagioli THE STORMY SEARCH FOR THE SELF: A GUIDE TO PERSONAL GROWTH THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL CRISIS By Christina Grof REBORN IN THE LIGHT: LIFE AFTER NEAR‐DEATH EXPERIENCES By Cherie Sutherland TRANSFIGURED BY THE LIGHT: THE POWERFUL EFFECT OF NEAR‐DEATH EXPERIENCES ON PEOPLE'S LIVES By Melvin Morse THE RECOVERY OF SELF: REGRESSION AND REDEMPTION IN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE By Kevin Fauteux THE SPIRITUAL QUEST: TRANSCENDENCE IN MYTH, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE By Robert M. Torrance