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INDEX TO VOLUME 37 I. AUTHORS BENN, JAMES A., Where Text Meets Flesh: Burning the Body as an Apocryphal Practice in Chinese Buddhism COHEN, RICHARD S., Naga, Yaksini, Buddha: Local Deities and Local Buddhism at Ajanta DONIGER, WENDY, Sita and Helen, Ahaiya and Alcmena: A Compar- ative Study GASPARRO, GIULIA SFAMENI, Ugo Bianchi: October 13, 1922—April 14, 1995 GROTTANELLI, CRISTIANO, Nietzsche and Myth JOHNSON, PAUL C., Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black: Visions of Public Space in Brazil’s Recent Holy War JORDAAN, Roy E., see WESSING, ROBERT LINCOLN, BRUCE, Rewriting the German War God: Georges Dumézil, Politics, and Scholarship in the Late 1930s McMauan, Davip, Orality, Writing, and Authority in South Asian Buddhism: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Mahayana OHNUMA, REIKO, The Gift of the Body and the Gift of Dharma SIMPSON, JANE, Io as Supreme Being: Intellectual Colonization of the Maori? THOMPSON, GEORGE, Ahamkdra and Atmastuti: Self-Assertion and Impersonation in the Rgveda URBAN, Hucu B., The Torment of Secrecy: Ethical and Epistemolog- ical Problems in the Study of Esoteric Traditions WASSERSTROM, STEVE M., Marilyn Robinson Waldman: April 13, 1943-July 8, 1996 WESSING, ROBERT, and Roy E. JORDAAN, Death at the Building Site: Construction Sacrifice in Southeast Asia Index to Volume 37 Il. TITLES Ahamkdara and Atmastuti: Self-Assertion and Impersonation in the Rgveda Death at the Building Site: Construction Sacrifice in Southeast Asia The Gift of the Body and the Gift of Dharma Io as Supreme Being: Intellectual Colonization of the Maori? Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black: Visions of Pub- lic Space in Brazil’s Recent Holy War Marilyn Robinson Waldman: April 13, 1943—July 9, 1996 Naga, Yaksini, Buddha: Local Deities and Local Buddhism at Ajanta Nietzsche and Myth Orality, Writing, and Authority in South Asian Buddhism: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Mahayana Rewriting the German War God: Georges Dumézil, Politics, and Scholarship in the Late 1930s Sita and Helen, Ahalya and Alcmena: A Comparative Study The Torment of Secrecy: Ethical and Epistemological Problems in the Study of Esoteric Traditions Ugo Bianchi: October 13, 1922—April 14, 1995 Where Text Meets Flesh: Burning the Body as an Apocryphal Practice in Chinese Buddhism Ill. BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES BRIGHTMAN, ROBERT A., Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships (Ake Hultkrantz) BRowNn, PETER, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christian- isation of the Roman World (A. J. Droge) CABEZON, JosE IGNacio, Buddhism and Language: A Study of Indo- Tibetan Scholasticism (C. W. Huntington, Jr.) Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism. Edited by DONALD S. Lopez, Jr. (Janet Gyatso) ELIADE, MIRCEA, and RAFFAELE PETTAZZONI, L’histoire des religions a-t-elle un sens? Correspondance, 1926-1959 (Maurice Olender) FISHBANE, MICHAEL, The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism (Paul Mendes-Flohr) FRAUWALLNER, ERICH, Philosophische Texte des Hinduismus (Paul J. Griffiths) FRENCH, REBECCA REDWOOD, The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet (Andrew Huxley) HARDY, FRIEDHELM, The Religious Culture of India: Power, Love and Wisdom (Norman Cutler) HEINE, STEVEN, Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobo- genzo Texts (Dale Wright) HOFFMAN, VALERIE J., Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt (Earle H. Waugh) History of Religions HOLDREGE, BARBARA A., Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture (Daniel Gold) Katz, PAUL R., Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Mar- shal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang (Robert Ford Campany) KRIPAL, JEFFREY J., Kdli’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna (John Stratton Hawley) PALS, DANIEL L., Seven Theories of Religion (Laura S. Grillo) PROTHERO, STEPHEN, The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott (Matthew Mulligan Goldstein) RAY, REGINALD A., Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations (Kevin Trainor) Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India. Edited by JoHN STRATTON HAWLEY (Susan S. Wadley) SULLIVAN, WINNIFRED FALLERS, Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Hans G. Kippenberg) WASSERSTROM, STEVEN M., Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Kathryn Kueny) WILSON, THOMAS A., Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China (Jeffrey F. Meyer)