Review Essays

Book Reviewed in this Article COMPETING VIEWS OF CANON FORMATION IN THE SIKH TRADITION: A FOCUS ON RECENT CONTROVERSY GATHA SRI ADI GRANTH By Piar Singh GATHA SRI ADI GRANTH AND THE CONTROVERSY By Piar Singh THE GOINDVAL POTHIS: THE EARLIEST EXTANT SOURCE OF THE SIKH CANON By Gurinder Singh Mann AHIYAPUR VALI POTHI: PART I ‐ INTRODUCTION By Pritam Singh EARLY SIKH SCRIPTURAL TRADITION: MYTH AND REALITY By Balwant Singh Dhillon THREE PATHS TO EMPOWERMENT IN RECENT AFRICAN AMERICAN THEOLOGY AND ETHICS WHY LORD? SUFFERING AND EVIL IN BLACK THEOLOGY By Anthony B. Pinn VARIETIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE By Anthony B. Pinn EMPOWERMENT ETHICS FOR A LIBERATED PEOPLE: A PATH TO AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION By Cheryl J. Sanders SAINTS IN EXILE: THE HOLINESS‐PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION AND CULTURE By Cheryl J. Sanders THE LEAST OF THESE: RACE, LAW AND RELIGION IN AMERICAN CULTURE By Anthony E. Cook READING MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY: RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FIELD OF SUHRAWARDI STUDIES SUHRAWARDI AND THE SCHOOL OF ILLUMINATION By Mehdi Amin Razavi Curzon Sufi Series Richmond THE LEAVEN OF THE ANCIENTS: SUHRAWARD? AND THE HERITAGE OF THE GREEKS By John Walbridge THE SCIENCE OF MYSTIC LIGHTS: QUTB AL‐D?N SH?RĀZ? AND THE ILLUMINATIONIST TRADITION IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY By John Walbridge SUHRAWARD?: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ILLUMINATION Translated by John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai Islamic AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Amin Razavi AMERICAN RELIGIOUS BIOGRAPHY TODAY THE DIVINE DRAMATIST: GEORGE WHITEFIELD AND THE RISE OF MODERN EVANGELICALISM By Harry S. Stout CHARLES G FINNEY AND THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM By Charles E. Hambrick‐Stowe BILLY SUNDAY AND THE REDEMPTION OF URBAN AMERICA By Lyle W. Dorsett SWORN ON THE ALTAR OF GOD: A RELIGIOUS BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON By Edwin S. Gaustad EMILY DICKINSON AND THE ART OF BELIEF By Roger Lundin Library REBECCA GRATZ: WOMEN AND JUDAISM IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA By Dianne Ashton BISHOP HENRY MCNEAL TURNER AND AFRICAN‐AMERICAN RELIGION IN THE SOUTH By Stephen Ward Angell RELIGION IN AMERICAN POLITICS: LIBERALISM AND RELIGION IN QUESTION RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS IN THE POLITICAL DEBATE By Robert Audi and Nicholas Wolterstorff VIRTUE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN LIBERALISM By Peter Berkowitz THE NECESSITY OF POLITICS: RECLAIMING AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE By Christopher Beem EQUAL TREATMENT OF RELIGION IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY Edited by Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper RELIGION IN POLITICS: CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL PERSPECTIVES By Michael J. Perry CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERAL SOCIETY By Robert Song RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE: A DILEMMA FOR DEMOCRACY By Ronald F. Thiemann NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: A REVIEW ARTICLE THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEAR EAST. Edited by Eric M. Myers Prepared under the Auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 1 THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEAR EAST. Edited by Eric M. Myers Prepared under the Auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 2 THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEAR EAST. Edited by Eric M. Myers Prepared under the Auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 3 THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEAR EAST. Edited by Eric M. Myers Prepared under the Auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 4 THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEAR EAST. Edited by Eric M. Myers Prepared under the Auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 5