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INDEX TO VOLUME 74 (2006) EDITOR'S NOTI Editor’s Note, Charles Mathewes, | INTRODUCTION Religion and Secrecy, Charles Mathewes, 273 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS On Book Burnings and Book Burners: Reflections on the Power (and Powerless- ness) of Ideas, Hans J. Hillerbrand, 593 ARTICLES \ Secret both Sinister and Salvific: Secrecy and Normativity in Light of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, Jonathan Malesic, 446 All Generalizations Are Bad: Postmodernism on Theories, Robert A. Segal, 157 An Eternal Return All Over Again: The Religious Conversation Endures, Donald Viebe, 674 Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self, Lawrence M. Wills, 902 Between the Lines: Exceeding Historicism in the Study of Religion, Tyler Roberts, 697 Comparative Religious Traditions, Peter Ochs, 125 Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought: Translations and Transitions, Ebrahim Moosa, 107 Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist Nuns’ Order, Reiko Ohnuma, 861 Defining Judaism: Accounting for “Religions” in the Study of Religion, Michael L. Satlow, 837 Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America, Hugh B. Urban, 356 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Practical and Doctrinal Significance of Secrecy in Shi ite Islam, Maria Dakake, 324 Journal of the American Academy of Religion December 2006, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 1045-1052 doi: 10.1093/jaarel/1f1029 Che Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] Journal of the American Academy of Religion Holy War in Modern Judaism? “Mitzvah War” and the Problem of the “Three Vows,” Reuven Firestone, 954 Honoring the Journey: The Wayward Paths of Conversion in the Catholic Worker and Camphill Movements, Dan McKanan, 926 Is the National Prayer Breakfast Surrounded by a “Christian Mafia”? Religious Publicity and Secrecy Within the Corridors of Power, D. Michael Lindsay, 390 “It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in It! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves, Russell T. McCutcheon, 720 On the Future of the Study of Religion in the Academy, Paul J. Griffiths, 66 On the Future of Religious Ethics: Keeping Religious Ethics Religious and Ethical, William Schweiker, 135 Parsi and Hindu Traditional and Nontraditional Responses to Christian Conversion in Bombay, 1839-45, Jesse S. Palsetia, 615 Reflections on Tradition and Inquiry in the Study of Religions, Gavin Flood, 47 Religion and Secrecy After September 11, Michael Barkun, 275 Revised: Comparative Religious Traditions, Peter Ochs, 483 Secretism and the Apotheosis of Duvalier, Paul Christopher Johnson, 420 Sources of History: Myth and Image, Nancy K. Levene, 79 The Discipline and Its Other: The Dialectic of Alterity in the Study of Religion, José Ignacio Cabezon, 21 The Future of Religion, Graham Ward, 179 The Final Frontier: Secrecy, Identity, and the Media in the Rise and Fall of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Julius H. Bailey, 302 he Politics of Nonduality: Reassessing the Work of Transcendence in Modern Sikh Theology, Arvind Mandair, 646 Theology in Modernity’s Wake, Ellen T. Armour, 7 REVIEW ESSAYS Religion and Secrecy: A Bibliographic Essay, Ann Williams Duncan, 469 Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay, Slavica Jakelic and Jessica Starling, 194 RESPONSES AND REJOINDERS A Response to Courtright, Russell T. McCutcheon, 755 Reply to Ochs, Ellen T. Armour, 19 Reply to Schweiker, José Ignacio Cabezon, 45 Reply to Levene, Gavin Flood, 64 Reply to Armour, Paul J. Griffiths, 77 Reply to Cabezén, Nancy K. Levene, 105 Reply to Griffiths, Ebrahim Moosa, 122 Reply to Segal, Peter Ochs, 133 Reply to Flood, William Schweiker, 155 Reply to Moosa, Robert A. Segal, 176 Reply to Castelli, Graham Ward, 192 Index to Volume 74 (2006) Reply to Segal, Peter Ochs, 499 Response to Armour, Peter Ochs, 16 Response to Cabezon, William Schweiker, 39 Response to Flood, Nancy K. Levene, 59 Response to Griffiths, Ellen Armour, 75 Response to Levene, José Ignacio Cabezon, 102 Response to Moosa, Paul J. Griffiths, 119 Response to Ochs, Robert Segal, 129 Response to Schweiker, Gavin Flood, 152 Response to Segal, Ebrahim Moosa, 172 Response to Ward, Elizabeth A. Castelli, 187 Response to Ochs, Robert A. Segal, 495 The Self-Serving Humility of Disciplining Liberal Humanist Scholars: A Response to Russell McCutcheon, Paul B. Courtright, 751 BOOK REVIEWS Afary, Janet and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (Jeremy Carrette), 531 Arnold, Dan, Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Richard P. Hayes), 514 Ashgate, Mark Siderits, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons Dan Arnold), 247 Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, ed., Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World (Sylvester A. Johnson), 784 Berlinerblau, Jacques, The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (Jorunn J. Buckley), 551 Blumhofer, Edith L., and Noll, Mark A., eds., Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism (Robin A. Leaver), 262 Burrus, Virginia, The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Bjérn Krondorfer), 259 Callahan, Allen Dwight, A Love Supreme: The History of the Johannine Tradition Boykin Sanders), 757 Clooney, S. J. Francis X., Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (Chad M. Bauman), 779 Costello, Damian, Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism (David Martinez), 1014 Cuevas, Bryan J., The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Kurtis R. Schaeffer), 1042 Davidson, Hebert A., Maimonides: The Man and His Works (Robert Eisen), 989 Davis, Creston, John Milbank, and Slavoj Zizek, eds., Theology and the Political: The New Debate (Clayton Crockett), 554 Deneen, Patrick J., Democratic Faith (Lawrie Balfour), 773 E. Jane, and Eric O. Springsted, eds., The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil (Clare B. Fischer), 992 1048 Journalo f the American Academy of Religion Ellis, Stephen and Haar, Gerrie Ter, Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa (Robert M. Baum), 561 Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Just War on Terror (Kevin Schilbrack), 539 Eng David L., and Kazanjian, David, eds., Loss: The Politics of Mourning (K. Roberts Skerrett), 241 Ernst, Carl W., and Lawrence, Bruce B., eds., Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond (Amina M. Steinfels), 266 Erskine, Noel Leo, From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology (Paget Henry), 789 Gert, Bernard, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (Andrew Michael Flescher), 221 Greenawalt, Kent, Does God Belong in Public Schools? (Rebecca Y. Kim), 1008 Gregorian, Vartan, Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith (Ebrahim Moosa), 1023 Griffiths, Paul J., Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (J. Joyce Schuld), 546 Gutschow, Kim, Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas (Karma Lekshe Tsomo), 506 Haight, Roger, Christian Community in History. 2 Volumes: Volume 1: Historical Ecclesiology and Volume 2: Comparative Ecclesiology (Gerard Mannion), 517 Hamner, Gail M., American Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy (Wayne Proudfoot), 501 Hardy III, Clarence E., James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture (Juan M. Floyd-Thomas), 995 Hawking, Steven W., and Leonard Mlodinow, A Briefer History of Time (Theodore Walker, Jr. ), 1037 lempton, David, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Thomas W. Simpson), 549 Hillenbrand, Robert, Islamic Architecture: Form, Function, and Meaning (Howayda Al-Harithy), 232 Hinnells, John R., The Zoroastrian Diaspora: Religion and Migration (Jesse S. Palsetia), 816 Hiraldo, Samiri Hernandez, Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience (Nelson Maldonado-Torres), 1011 Hodgson, Dorothy L., The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries (Isabel Mukonyora), 521 Hopkins, Dwight N., Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion (Monica A. Coleman), 759 Irwin, Kevin W., Models of the Eucharist Arthur (David Canales), 983 Isaac, Benjamin, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (John G. Nordling), 806 Jones, L. Gregory, Reinhard Hitter, and C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell, eds., God, Truth, and Witness: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas (Theodore Walker Jr.), 798 Kornblatt, Judith Deutsch, Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelli- gentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church (Scott M. Kenworthy), 224 Kort, Wesley A., Place and Space in Modern Fiction (Lynn Poland), 251 Lewis, Thomas A., Freedom and Tradition in Hegel: Reconsidering Anthropology, Ethics, and Religion (William Desmond), 787 Index to Volume 74 (2006 Lopez, Donald S., Jr., The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel (Kurtis R. Schaeffer), 1039 Lucas, Phillip Charles and Robbins, Thomas eds., New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective (Thomas C. Langham), 243 Lupton, Julia Reinhard, Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theory (David Jasper), 1001 Mahmood, Saba, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Amina Wadud), 813 Marion, Jean-Luc, Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (John D. Caputo), 986 Markham, lan and Ibrahim Ozdemir, eds., Globalization, Ethics and Islam: The Case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (brahim Abu Bakar), 534 Marsh, Charles, The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today (Samuel K. Roberts), 762 Masuzawa, Tomoko, The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (Leigh E. Schmidt), 229 McCloud, Sean, Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993 ( Joseph L. Price), 811 McCutcheon, Russel T., The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric Lars Albinus), 524 cRae, John R., Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (George A. Keyworth), 256 Miner, Robert, Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Phiilo- sophy (Andrew B. Irvine), 556 Moosa, Ebrahim, Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (Frank Griffel), 795 Mouw, Richard J., Noll, Mark A., and Eerdmans, William B., eds., Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology (Robin A. Leaver), 262 Moyn, Samuel, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (Martin Kavka), 1003 Nickelsburg, George W. E., Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation (Celia Deutsch), 212 Nigosian, S. A., Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices (Liyakat Takim), 536 O’Connor, Bernard J., Papal Diplomacy: John Paul II and the Culture of Peace John Pollard), 1026 Owens, Erik C., Carlson., John D., Elshtain, Eric P., and Eerdmans, William B., eds., Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning (James McBride), 253 Payne, Richard K., and Tanaka, Kenneth K., eds., Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha (J. Todd Brown), 215 Perrin, J. M., and G. Thibon, Simone Weil As We Knew Her Doering (Clare B. Fischer), 992 Pinn, Anthony B., and Dwight N. Hopkins, eds., Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic (Claudia Schippert), 1027 1050 Journal of the American Academy of Religion Plaskow, Judith, The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003 (Mary E. Hunt), 998 Plate, Brent S., Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts (David Brian Howard), 560 Pleins, J. David, When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah’s Flood (L. Russ Bush III), 269 Pollock, Sheldon, ed., Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (Frederick M. Smith), 1030 Rayment-Pickard, Hugh, Impossible God: Derrida’s Theology (Victor E. Taylor), 227 Robinson, Richard H., Willard L. Johnson, and Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction (Donald K. Swearer), 765 Roozen, David A., and James R. Nieman, eds., Church, Identity, and Change: Theology and Denominational Structures in Unsettled Times (R. Drew Smith), 1034 Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (C. S’thembile West), 528 Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: a Western Religious History (Catherine Keller), 1006 Segal, Alan F., Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West (Gregory D. Alles), 235 Shea, William M., The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America (Jeffrey Marlett), 238 Sherwood, Yvonne and Kevin Hart, eds., Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments (Jeffrey W. Robbins), 776 Smith, Anthony D., Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity (Mary Anne Perkins), 218 Solovyov, Vladimir, On the Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philo- sophy (Anthony D. Baker), 808 Stowe, David W., How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans (Robin A. Leaver), 262 Sugirtharajah, Sharada, Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective (S. N. Balagangadhara), 801 Swearer, Donald K., Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand (Nicola Tannenbaum), 503 Tanner, Kathryn, Economy of Grace (Julie A. Nelson), 782 Taylor, Mark C., Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption (Mark Valeri), 771 Tzvlor, Cynthia, A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Leader (William A. Mirola), 1017 Thumma, Scott, and Edward R. Gray, eds., Gay Religion (Traci C. West), 792 Tsomo, Karma Lekshe, ed., Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, Challenges, and Achievements (Rita M. Gross), 512 Wallace, Alan B., ed., Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (Geoffrey Samuel), 509 White, David Gordon, Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts (Stuart Ray Sarbacker), 543 Index to Volume 74 (2006 Wuthnow, Robert, America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (Susanne C. Monahan), 1020 AUTHORS Armour, Ellen T., Theology in Modernity’s Wake, 7 Bailey, Julius H., The Final Frontier: Secrecy, Identity, and the Media in the Rise and Fall of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, 302 Barkun, Michael, Religion and Secrecy After September 11, 275 Cabezon, José Ignacio, The Discipline and Its Other: The Dialectic of Alterity in the Study of Religion, 2] Dakake, Maria, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Practical and Doctrinal Significance of Secrecy in Shiite Islam, 324 Firestone, Reuven, Holy War in Modern Judaism? “Mitzvah War” and the Prob- lem of the “Three Vows,” 954 Flood, Gavin, Reflections on Tradition and Inquiry in the Study of Religions, 47 Griffiths, Paul J., On the Future of the Study of Religion in the Academy, 66 Johnson, Paul Christopher, Secretism and the Apotheosis of Duvalier, 420 Levene, Nancy K., Sources of History: Myth and Image, 79 Lindsay, D. Michael, Is the National Prayer Breakfast Surrounded by a Christian Mafia”? Religious Publicity and Secrecy Within the Corridors ot Power, 390 Malesic, Jonathan, A Secret both Sinister and Salvific: Secrecy and Normativity in Light of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, 446 Mandair, Arvind, The Politics of Nonduality: Reassessing the Work of Trans- cendence in Modern Sikh Theology, 646 McCutcheon, Russell T., “It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in It! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves, 720 McKanan, Dan, Honoring the Journey: The Wayward Paths of Conversion in the Catholic Worker and Camphill Movements, 926 Moosa, Ebrahim, Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought: Translations and ransitions, 107 Ochs, Peter, Comparative Religious Traditions, 125 Ochs, Peter, Revised: Comparative Religious Traditions, 483 Ohnuma, Reiko, Debt to the Mother: A Neglected Aspect of the Founding of the Buddhist Nuns’ Order, 861 Palsetia, Jesse S., Parsi and Hindu Traditional and Nontraditional Responses to Christian Conversion in Bombay, 1839-45, 615 Roberts, Tyler, Between the Lines: Exceeding Historicism in the Study of Religion, 697 Satlow, Michael L., Defining Judaism: Accounting for “Religions” in the Study of Religion, 837 Schweiker, William, On the Future of Religious Ethics: Keeping Religious Ethics Religious and Ethical, 135 Segal, Robert A., All Generalizations Are Bad: Postmodernism on Theories, 157 1052 Journal of the American Academy of Religion Urban, Hugh B., Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America, 356 Ward, Graham, The Future of Religion, 179 Wiebe, Donald, An Eternal Return All Over Again: The Religious Conversation Endures, 674 Wills, Lawrence M., Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self, 902