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INDEX TO VOLUME I. AUTHORS ADARKAR, AbITyA, The Mahabharata and Its Universe: New Approaches to the All-Encompassing Epic BOUBEKEUR, AMEL, Post-Islamist Culture: A New Form of Mobilization? BUCKLEY, JORUNN J., Polemics and Exorcism in Mandaean Baptism DrocgE, A. J., Sabbath Work/Sabbath Rest: Genesis, Thomas, John FLETCHER, ADELE, Sanctity, Power, and the “Impure Sacred”: Analyzing the Maori Concepts of TJapu and Noa in Early Docu- mentary Sources GALLAGHER, EUGENE V., Compared to What? “Cults” and “New Religious Movements” HARDACRE, HELEN, Aum Shinriky6 and the Japanese Media: The Pied Piper Meets the Lamb of God HOPKINS, STEVEN P., Extravagant Beholding: Love, Ideal Bodies, and Particularity JANOWITZ, NAOMI, Good Jews Don’t: Historical and Philosophical Constructions of Idolatry MOLINA, J. MICHELLE, Technologies of the Self: The Letters of Eighteenth-Century Mexican Jesuit Spiritual Daughters MyscorskI, CAROLE A., Imagining Cannibals: European Encounters with Native Brazilian Women SERED, SUSAN, Taxonomies of Ritual Mixing: Ritual Healing in the Contemporary United States SILK, JONATHAN A., Incestuous Ancestries: The Family Origins of Gautama Siddhartha, Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 20:12, and the Status of Scripture in Buddhism 366 Index to Volume 47 Il. TITLES Aum Shinriky6 and the Japanese Media: The Pied Piper Meets the Lamb of God Extravagant Beholding: Love, Ideal Bodies, and Particularity Compared to What? “Cults” and “New Religious Movements” Good Jews Don’t: Historical and Philosophical Constructions of Idolatry Imagining Cannibals: European Encounters with Native Brazilian Women Incestuous Ancestries: The Family Origins of Gautama Siddhartha, Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 20:12, and the Status of Scripture in Buddhism The Mahabharata and Its Universe: New Approaches to the All- Encompassing Epic Polemics and Exorcism in Mandaean Baptism Post-Islamist Culture: A New Form of Mobilization? Sabbath Work/Sabbath Rest: Genesis, Thomas, John Sanctity, Power, and the “Impure Sacred”: Analyzing the Maori Concepts of Tapu and Noa in Early Documentary Sources Taxonomies of Ritual Mixing: Ritual Healing in the Contemporary United States Technologies of the Self: The Letters of Eighteenth-Century Mexican Jesuit Spiritual Daughters Ill. BOOK REVIEWS CLAUDE CALAME, Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (Synngve des Bouvrie) ELIZABETH A. CASTELLI, Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Walter Ameling) ROBERT S. Cox, Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism (Ann Braude) RONALD M. Davipson, Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture (Bryan J. Cuevas) ROBERT DECAROLI, Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism (Janice Leoshko) JEPPE SINDING JENSEN, The Study of Religion in a New Key: Theo- retical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and Gen- eral Study of Religion (Russell T. McCutcheon) SABINA MaG.iocco, Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Pagan- ism in America (Stefanie von Schnurbein) EVELINE MASILAMANI-MEYER, Guardians of Tamilnadu: Folk Deities, Folk Religion, Hindu Themes (Isabelle Clark-Decés) Eric MICHAUD, The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany (Paul B. Jaskot) DIANE P. MINES, Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village (Perundevi Srinivasan) History of Religions ARIE L. MOLENDUK, The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands (Peter van der Veer) Susan J. PALMER, Aliens Adored: Raél’s UFO Religion (Ryan J. Cook) HEIKE PETER, Gétter auf Erden: Hethitische Rituale aus Sicht his- torischer Religionsanthropologie (Theo van den Hout) SARAH PIKE, New Age and Neopagan Religions in America (Tanya Luhrmann) SUMATHI RAMASWaAMY, The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geo- graphics, Catastrophic Histories (Richard Weiss) JANINE TASCA SAWADA, Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Peter Nosco) ANDREA STARK, Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity (J. A.M cGuckin) Ropney StarK, Exploring the Religious Life (Ole Riis) ULRIKE STRASSER, State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic Society (Constance M. Furey) DONALD SWEARER, Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand (Justin McDaniel) PAUL J. VANDERWOOD, Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint (John M. Ingham) EUGENE Y. WANG, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (Angela F. Howard) HARVEY WHITEHOUSE, Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transformation (Armin W. Geertz) SERGE! I. ZHUK, Russia’s Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917 (Brian P. Bennett)