Review Essays

Book Reviewed in this Article “HOORAY FOR OUR SIDE”: SONGS, IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION, AND SOUND DOCTRINE WHITE SOUL: COUNTRY MUSIC, THE CHURCH AND WORKING AMERICANS. By Tex Sample APOSTLES OF ROCK: THE SPLINTERED WORLD OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC. By Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck BLUES AND EVIL. By Jon Michael THE RISE OF GOSPEL BLUES: THE MUSIC OF THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY IN THE URBAN CHURCH. By Michael W. Harris IF YOU DON'T GO, DON'T HINDER ME: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SACRED SONG TRADITION. By Bernice Johnson BLACK HYMNODY: A HYMNOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN‐AMERICAN CHURCH. By Jon Michael HOW SHALL WE SING IN A FOREIGN LAND? MUSIC OF IRISH CATHOLIC IMMIGRANTS IN THE ANTEBELLUM UNITED STATES. By Robert R. Grimes THE SOUND OF THE DOVE: SINGING IN APPALACHIAN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCHES. By Beverly Bush THE ABSENCE FETISH* ON RELIGION. By John D. Caputo WHY ETHICS? SIGNS OF RESPONSIBILITIES. By Robert Gibbs FROM DENOMINATIONAL APOLOGETICS TO SOCIAL HISTORY AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY ANABAPTIST STUDIES THE ANABAPTISTS. By Hans‐Jürgen Goertz Translated by Trevor Johnson THE GERMAN PEASANTS' WAR AND ANABAPTIST COMMUNITY OF GOODS. By James M. Stayer HUTTERITE BEGINNINGS: COMMUNITARIAN EXPERIMENTS DURING THE REFORMATION. By Werner O. Packull ANABAPTIST HISTORY AND THEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION. By C. Arnold THE LORD'S SUPPER IN ANABAPTISM: A STUDY IN THE CHRISTOLOGY OF BALTHASAR HUBMAIER, PILGRAM MARPECK, AND DIRK PHILIPS. By John D. Rempel NATIVE PEOPLES AND NON‐NATIVE INSTITUTIONS SPIRIT WARS: NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN RELIGIONS IN THE AGE OF NATION BUILDING. By Ronald Niezen with contributions by Manley Bengay OJIBWE SINGERS: HYMNS, GRIEF, AND A NATIVE CULTURE IN MOTION. By Michael D. McNally NATIVE AND CHRISTIAN: INDIGENOUS VOICES ON RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Edited by James Treat NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: UNFORGOTTEN GODS. Edited by Jace Weaver BLACK ELK'S RELIGION: THE SUN DANCE AND LAKOTA CATHOLICISM. By Clyde Holler BLACK ELK LIVES: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BLACK ELK FAMILY: ESTHER BLACK ELK DESERSA, OLIVIA BLACK ELK POURIER, AARON DESERSA, JR., CLIFTON DESERSA. Edited by Hilda Neihardt and Lori Utecht THE RESTLESS CURIOSITY OF NILS ALSTRUP DAHL AND HIS PROBING OF EPHESIANS STUDIES IN EPHESIANS: INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS, TEXT‐ & EDITION‐CRITICAL ISSUES, INTERPRETATION OF TEXTS AND THEMES. By Nils A. Dahl Edited by David Hellholm, Vemund Blomkvist, and Tord Fornberg THE RESTLESS CURIOSITY OF NILS ALSTRUP DAHL AND HIS PROBING OF EPHESIANS PLURALISMS IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN THE AMERICAN EMPIRE A NEW RELIGIOUS AMERICA: HOW A “CHRISTIAN COUNTRY” HAS BECOME THE WORLD'S MOST RELIGIOUSLY DIVERSE NATION. By Diana L. Eck ON COMMON GROUND: WORLD RELIGIONS IN AMERICA. Edited by Diana L. Eck ONE TRUE GOD: HISTORICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MONOTHEISM. By Rodney Stark THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN RELIGION: THE STORY OF A LATE‐TWENTIETH‐CENTURY AWAKENING. By Amanda Porterfied FROM ANCIENT RELIGIONS TO MODERN SCHOLARSHIP: THE WORK OF HANS G. KIPPENBERG GARIZIM UND SYNAGOGE: TRADITIONSGESCHICHTLICHEUNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR SAMARITANISCHEN RELIGION DER ARAMÄISCHEN PERIODE. By Hans Gerhard RELIGION UND KLASSENBILDUNG IM ANTIKEN JUDÄA. EINE RELIGIONSSOZIOLOGISCHE STUDIE ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON TRADITION UND GESELLSCHAFTLICHER ENTWICKLUNG. By Hans G. Kippenberg DIE VORDERASIATISCHEN ERLÖSUNGSRELIGIONEN IN IHREM ZUSAMMENHANG MIT DER ANTIKEN STADTHERRSCHAFT, HEIDELBERGER MAX‐WEBER‐VORLESUNGEN 1988. By Hans G. Kippenberg DISCOVERING RELIGIOUS HISTORY IN THE MODERN AGE 1 . By Hans G. Kippenberg Translated by Barbara Harshav