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INDEX TO VOLUME 39 I. AUTHORS BUCKLEY, JORUNN J., Glimpses of a Life: Yahia Bihram, Mandaean Priest CARRASCO, Davib, Uttered from the Heart: Guilty Rhetoric among the Aztecs DEMPSEY, CoRINNE G., Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three “Christian” Saints EBERSOLE, GARY L., The Function of Ritual Weeping Revisited: Affective Expression and Moral Discourse GRAULICH, MICHEL, Aztec Human Sacrifice as Expiation KENT, ELIZA F, Tamil Bible Women and the Zenana Missions of Colonial South India KHAN, RUQAYYA YASMINE, Substitution and Sacrifice in the Classical Love Story of Al-Muraqqish Al-Akbar SCHMALZ, MATHEW N., Images of the Body in the Life and Death of a North Indian Catholic Catechist SMITH, FREDERICK M., Indra Goes West: Report on a Vedic Soma Sacrifice in London in July 1996 SMITH, JONATHAN Z., Acknowledgments: Morphology and History in Mircea Eliade’s Patterns in Comparative Religion (1949-1999): Part 1: The Work and Its Contexts SMITH, JONATHAN Z., Acknowledgments: Morphology and History in Mircea Eliade’s Patterns in Comparative Religion (1949-1999): Part 2: The Texture of the Work URBAN, HuGH B., The Cult of Ecstasy: Tantrism, the New Age, and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism WAGHORNE, JOANNE PUNZO, Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line between Hindu and Christian Index to Volume 39 ll. TITLES Acknowledgments: Morphology and History in Mircea Eliade’s Pat- terns in Comparative Religion (1949-1999): Part 1: The Work and Its Contexts Acknowledgments: Morphology and History in Mircea Eliade’s Pat- terns in Comparative Religion (1949-1999): Part 2: The Texture of the Work Aztec Human Sacrifice as Expiation Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line between Hindu and Christian The Cult of Ecstasy: Tantrism, the New Age, and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism The Function of Ritual Weeping Revisited: Affective Expression and Moral Discourse Glimpses of a Life: Yahia Bihram, Mandaean Priest Images of the Body in the Life and Death of a North Indian Catholic Catechist Indra Goes West: Report on a Vedic Soma Sacrifice in London in July 1996 Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three “Chris- tian” Saints Substitution and Sacrifice in the Classical Love Story of Al-Muraqqish Al-Akbar Tamil Bible Women and the Zenana Missions of Colonial South India Uttered from the Heart: Guilty Rhetoric among the Aztecs Ill. BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES BELL, CATHERINE, Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions (Richard J. Parmentier) BENTOR, YAEL, Consecration of Images and Stiipas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism (Donald K. Swearer) BOUILLIER, VERONIQUE, Ascétes et rois: Un monastére de Kanphata Yogis au Nepal (David G. White) CAMPANY, ROBERT F, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (Stephen Teiser) CAPDEVILLE, GERARD, Volcanus: Recherches comparatistes sur les origines du culte de Vulcain (Giorgio Camassa) CHIDESTER, DAviID, Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (Russell T. McCutcheon) CuoKsy, JAMSHEED K., Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Sub- alterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society (William W. Malandra) CoLe, ALAN, Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (Reiko Ohnuma) ~ CoLe, JUAN R. I., Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East (Margrit Warburg) History of Religions DALMIA, VASUDHA, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bha- ratendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras (Peter Gottschalk) EBERSOLE, GARY L., Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Im- ages of Indian Captivity (Martha L. Finch) GILHUS, INGVILD SAELID, Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion (Norman J. Girardot) GrarF, Fritz, Magic in the Ancient World and Gottesndhe und Scha- denzauber: Die Magie in der griechisch-rémischen Antike (Hans Dieter Betz) GyaTSso, JANET, Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary (Janice D. Willis) HENDERSON, JOHN B., The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns (Francis X. Clooney, S.J.) KINSLEY, DAvip, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas (Jacob N. Kinnard) LAWRENCE, BRUCE B., Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (Mark R. Woodward) LINDQUIST, GALINA, Shamanic Performances on the Urban Scene: Neo-Shamanism in Contemporary Sweden (Don Handelman) MALAMOUD, CHARLES, Cooking the World: Ritual and Thought in Ancient India (Stephanie W. Jamison) McDANNELL, COLLEEN, Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America (Catherine L. Albanese) PARKHILL, THOMAS C., Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, “Indians,” and the Study of Native American Religions (Christopher R. Jocks) PEDERSEN, NILS ARNE, Studies in the Sermon on the Great War: In- vestigations of a Manichaean-Coptic Text from the Fourth Century (Manfred Hutter) PiGGoTT, JOAN R., The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (Robert S. Ellwood) RAMASWAMY, VIJAYA, Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India (Nancy Auer Falk) RAPHALS, Lisa, Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China (Ann Waltner) RENNIE, BRYAN S., Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion (Eric J. Ziolkowski) RUSSELL, JEFFREY BURTON, A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (Kevin Madigan) SOEFFNER, HANS-GEORG, The Order of Rituals: The Interpretation of Everyday Life (Don Handelman) WAUGH, EARLE H., Dissonant Worlds: Roger Vandersteene among the Cree (Joe! W. Martin) Zito, ANGELA, Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Per- formance in Eighteenth-Century China (D. R. Howland)