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INDEX TO VOLUME 50 I. AUTHORS ANDO, CLIFFORD, The Ontology of Religious Institutions BARBU, DANIEL, The Jewish Sacking of Alien Temples: “Limits of Toleration” in a Comparative Perspective BORGEAUD, PHILIPPE, Introduction: The Religion of the Alien and the Limits of Toleration, Ancient Perspectives BORGEAUD, PHILIPPE, “Silent Entrails”: The Devil, His Demons, and Christian Theories Regarding Ancient Religions Day, MATTHEW, The Sacred Contagion: John Trenchard, Natural History, and the Effluvial Politics of Religions FREIBERGER, OLIVER, Locating the Ascetic’s Habitat: Toward a Micro- comparison of Religious Discourses HANSEN, WILBURN, Of Heretics and Tax Cheats: A Remedy for Double Vision in Scholarship on Medieval Japan LINCOLN, BRucE, Human Unity and Diversity in Zoroastrian Mythology Liu, Yu, The True Pioneer of the Jesuit China Mission: Michele Ruggieri MEEKS, Lori, The Disappearing Medium: Reassessing the Place of Miko in the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan PAYNE, RICHARD K., Introduction: New Studies in Medieval Japa- nese Religions POMPLUN, TRENT, Introduction: Christian Missions and the History of Religions POMPLUN, TRENT, Natural Reason and Buddhist Philosophy: The Tibetan Studies of Ippolito Desideri, SJ (1684-1733) REDFIELD, JAMES, The Philosophers and the Many SANGO, ASUKA, Making Debate Hell: Knowledge and Power in Japanese Buddhist Ritual 438 Index to Volume 50 SHIN, JUNHYOUNG MICHAEL, The Supernatural in the Jesuit Adaptation to Confucianism: Giulio Aleni’s Tianzhu Jiangsheng Chuxiang Jingjie KE bE WH (RFR AF (Fuzhon, 1637) VEVAINA, YUHAN SOHRAB-DINSHAW, “Enumerating the Dén”: Textual Taxonomies, Cosmological Deixis, and Numerological Speculations in Zorastrianism Il. TITLES The Disappearing Medium: Reassessing the Place of Miko in the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan “Enumerating the Dén”: Textual Taxonomies, Cosmological Deixis, and Numerological Speculations in Zorastrianism Human Unity and Diversity in Zoroastrian Mythology Introduction: Christian Missions and the History of Religions Introduction: New Studies in Medieval Japanese Religions Introduction: The Religion of the Alien and the Limits of Toleration, Ancient Perspectives The Jewish Sacking of Alien Temples: “Limits of Toleration” in a Comparative Perspective Locating the Ascetic’s Habitat: Toward a Microcomparison of Re- ligious Discourses Making Debate Hell: Knowledge and Power in Japanese Buddhist Ritual Natural Reason and Buddhist Philosophy: The Tibetan Studies of Ippolito Desideri, SJ (1684-1733) Of Heretics and Tax Cheats: A Remedy for Double Vision in Schol- arship on Medieval Japan The Ontology of Religious Institutions The Philosophers and the Many The Sacred Contagion: John Trenchard, Natural History, and the Effluvial Politics of Religion “Silent Entrails”: The Devil, His Demons, and Christian Theories Regarding Ancient Religions The Supernatural in the Jesuit Adaptation to Confucianism: Giulio Aleni’s Tianzhu Jiangsheng Chuxiang Jingjie K+ EAH (RE (Fuzhon, 1637) The True Pioneer of the Jesuit China Mission: Michele Ruggieri Ill. BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES WENDI ADAMEK, The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and Its Contexts (John R. McRae) JAN ASSMANN, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism (Benjamin D. Sommer) GIDEON BOHAK, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (Hans Dieter Betz) KELLY BULKELEY, Dreaming in the World’s Religions: A Compara- tive History (Kimberley C. Patton) History of Religions ISABELLE CLARK-DECcES, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals (Eliza F. Kent) ARIEL GLUCKLICH, The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective (David M. Knipe) Linpsay HALE, Hearing the Mermaid’s Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro (Kelly E. Hayes) DaviD HARDIMAN, Missionaries and Their Medicine: A Christian Modernity for Tribal India (Chad M. Bauman) CHRISTOPHER MACE vITT, The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (Carole Hillenbrand) ANGELIKA MALINAR, The Bhagavadgita: Doctrines and Contexts (Vishwa Adluri) KATHRYN MCCLYMOND, Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice (F. S. Naiden) JusTIN THOMAS MCDANIEL, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Monastic Buddhist Education in Laos and Thailand (Daniel Veidlinger) MARGARET MESERVE, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought (Charles Burnett) AXEL MICHAELS, Siva in Trouble: Festivals and Rituals at the Pasu- pathinatha Temple of Deopatan (Nepal) (Will Tuladhar-Douglas) RALPH W. NICHOLAS, Rites of Spring: Gajan in Village Bengal (Sarah Lamb) CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Religion and Public Memory: A Cul- tural History of Saint Namdev in India (Daniel Gold) CHARLES H. PARKER, Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Cath- olicism in the Dutch Golden Age (Charles Caspers) TISA WENGER, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (Greg Johnson)