Review Essays

Book reviewed in this article: TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: IN SEARCH OF THE SACRED: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS By Clinton Bennett TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: CONCEPTUALIZING RELIGION: IMMANENT ANTHROPOLOGISTS, TRANSCENDENT NATIVES, AND UNBOUNDED CATEGORIES By Benson Saler TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: ORDERED UNIVERSES: APPROACHES TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION By Morton Klass TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: RELIGION: A HUMANIST INTERPRETATION By Raymond Firth TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: RITUAL AND RELIGION IN THE MAKING OF HUMANITY By Roy A. Rappaport INSIDE‐OUT, OUTSIDE‐IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU‐TRADITIONS: FEET OF CLAY—SAINTS, SINNERS, AND MADMEN: A STUDY OF GURUS By Anthony Storr INSIDE‐OUT, OUTSIDE‐IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU‐TRADITIONS: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND BUDDHISM: TOWARD AN INTEGRATION By Jeffrey B. Rubin INSIDE‐OUT, OUTSIDE‐IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU‐TRADITIONS: THE DOUBLE MIRROR: A SKEPTICAL JOURNEY INTO BUDDHIST TANTRA By Stephen Butterfield INSIDE‐OUT, OUTSIDE‐IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU‐TRADITIONS: MEDITATION REVOLUTION: A HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF THE SIDDHA YOGA LINEAGE By Douglas Renfrew Brooks, et al. RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: THE DEV? G?TĀ: THE SONG OF THE GODDESS. A TRANSLATION, ANNOTATION, AND COMMENTARY By C. Mackenzie Brown RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: THE RISE OF THE GODDESS IN THE HINDU TRADITION By Tracy Pintchman RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: THE GODDESS LAKSM?: THE DIVINE CONSORT IN SOUTH INDIAN VAISŃVA TRADITIONS By P. Pratap Kumar RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: TANTRIC VISIONS OF THE DIVINE FEMININE: THE TEN MAHĀVIDY By David Kinsley RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: THE DIVINE AND DEMONIAC: MAHISAS HEROIC STRUGGLE WITH DURGA By Carmel Berkson RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: VICTORY TO THE MOTHER: THE HINDU GODDESS OF NORTHWEST INDIA IN MYTH, RITUAL, AND SYMBOL By Kathleen M. Erndl RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: WATER AND WOMANHOOD: RELIGIOUS MEANINGS OF RIVERS IN MAHARASHTRA By Anne Feldhaus RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: OH TERRIFYING MOTHER: SEXUALITY, VIOLENCE, AND WORSHIP OF THE GODDESS KαI IN KERALA By Sarah Caldwell RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: DEV?: GODDESSES OF INDIA Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: WILD GODDESSES IN INDIA AND NEPAL: PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, BERNE AND ZURICH, NOVEMBER 1994 Edited by Axel Michaels, Cornelia Vogelsanger and Annette Wilke RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: SEEKING MAHĀDEV?: CONSTRUCTING THE IDENTITIES OF THE HINDU GREAT GODDESS Edited by Tracy Pintchman VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: IMAGE AND SPIRIT IN SACRED AND SECULAR ART By Jane Dillenberger; edited by Diane Apostolos‐Cappadona VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: THE SPIRIT AND THE VISION: THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN ROMANTICISM ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF 19TH‐CENTURY AMERICAN ART By Diane Apostolos‐Cappadona VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: ICONS OF AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM: THE ART OF WARNER SALLMAN Edited by David Morgan VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: THE LURE AND THE TRUTH OF PAINTING: SELECTED ESSAYS ON ART By Yves Bonnefoy; edited by Richard Stamelman VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF BEAUTY By John Navone VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: IMAGES OF TRUTH: RELIGION AND THE ART OF SEEING By John W. Dixon, Jr. VISUAL ART AND THEOLOGY: WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: IMAGES OR IDOLS? THE PLACE OF SACRED ART IN CHURCHES TODAY By Keith Walker APOTHEOSIS, RITUAL, AND BELIEF: THE CONTROVERSY OVER HAWAIIANS AND CAPTAIN COOK: THE APOTHEOSIS OF CAPTAIN COOK: EUROPEAN MYTHMAKING IN THE PACIFIC By Gananath Obeyesekere APOTHEOSIS, RITUAL, AND BELIEF: THE CONTROVERSY OVER HAWAIIANS AND CAPTAIN COOK: HOW “NATTVES” THINK: ABOUT CAPTAIN COOK, FOR EXAMPLE By Marshall Sahlins ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH 1–8: A COMMENTARY By David L. Petersen ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: ZECHARIAH 9–14 AND MALACHI: A COMMENTARY By David L. Petersen ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH 1–8: A NEW TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY By Carol L. Meyers and Eric M. Meyers ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: ZECHARIAH 9–14: A NEW TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY By Carol L. Meyers and Eric M. Meyers ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: DIE PROPHETEN HAGGAI, SACHARJA UND MALEACHI By Henning Graf Reventlow ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: SACHARJA By Robert Hanhart ZECHARIAH AND CHANGING VIEWS OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM IN RECENT COMMENTARIES: HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH AND MALACHI By Paul L. Redditt