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RECENT BOOKS ARCHIVE

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T. Fitzgerald,
Discourse on Civility and Barbarity (2007)



T. Fitzgerald
(ed.), Religion and the Secular (2007)

 




M. Keller & C. Fontenot (eds.), Re-Cognizing W.E.B. DuBois in the Twenty-First Century (2007)



S. Mittal and G. Thursby (eds.), Studying Hinduism (2007)



Tim Murphy
Representing Religion (2007)



J. Bulbulia et al. (eds.),
The Evolution of Religion (2007)




R. McCutcheon, Studying Religion: An Introduction
(2007)



Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007)



G. Alles (ed.),
Religious Studies: A Global View (2008)



J. Kreinath, J, Snoek, and M. Stausberg (eds), Theorizing Ritual 2006)




M. Courville (ed.), The Next Step in Studying Religion: A Graduate's Guide (2007)



R. Ellwood and G. Alles (eds.), The Encyclopedia of World Religions (2006)



Roger Beck
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire (2006)



Arthur McCalla
The Creationist Debate (2006)



Ivan Strenski
Thinking about Religion (2006)



Ivan Strenski
Thinking about Religion: A Reader (2006)



T. Idinopulos, B. Wilson, and J. C. Hanges (eds.), Comparing Religions: Possibilities and Perils? (2006)



S. Engler and G. Grieve (eds.), Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion (2005)



Willi Braun (ed.), Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities (2005)




J. E. Llewellyn (ed.),
Defining Hinduism: A Reader (2005)



D. Jason Slone (ed.),
Religion and Cognition: A Reader (2006)



R. Gothoni (ed.) How to do Comparative Religion (2005)



S. Mittal and G. Thursby (eds.), Religions of South Asia (2006)

     



P. Antes, A. Geertz, & R. Warne (eds.), New Approaches to the Study of Religion (2004)



Winnifred Sullivan, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005)



William Arnal, The Symbolic Jesus
(2005)



H. Whitehouse and L. Martin (eds.), Theorizing Religions Past (2004)



Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions (2004)



Jonathan Z. Smith, Relating Religion
(2004)

     



Jens Kreinath et al., The Dynamics of Changing Rituals (2004)



H. Whitehouse and R. McCauley (eds.), Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion (2005)



Daniel Dennett
Breaking the Spell (2006)



Ron Cameron and Merrill Miller (eds.), Redescribing Chrisitian Origins (2004)



D. Dubuisson (ed.), Dict. des grands themes de l'Histoire res religions (2004)



H. Whitehouse and J. Laidlaw (eds.), Ritual and Memory (2004)



Anita Leopold and Jeppe S. Jensen (eds.), Syncretism in the Study of Religion (2004)



Jeppe Sinding Jensen (ed.), Myth and Mythologies (2005)



Wayne Proudfoot (ed.), William James and a Science of Religions (2004)



Scott Elliott and Matthew Waggoner (eds.), Readings in the Theory of Religion (2005)



Bryan Rennie (ed.), Mircea Eliade: A Critical Reader (2005)



Graham Harvey (ed.), Ritual and Religious Belief (2005)



Harvey Whitehouse
Modes of Religiosity (2004)



S. Mittal and G. Thursby (eds.), The Hindu World (2004)



New Paths in the Study of Religions, a Festschrift in honour of Michael Pye (2004)



J. Wolfart and K. Blackstone, World Religions: A Non-Traditional Approach (2006)



R. McCutcheon Studying Religion: An Introduction (2005)



Jeppe Sinding Jensen, The Study of Religion in a New Key (2003)




Daniel Dubuisson
Les sagesses de l'homme
(2004)



Willi Braun, It's Just Another Story (2005)


R. McCutcheon, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent (2005)



Justin Barrett, Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (2004)



Ilka Pyysiainen, Magic, Miracles, and Religion (2004)



Brian Malley, How the Bible Works (2004)



Mary Keller, The Hammer and the Flute (2002)



Bruce Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears (2002)



Religion as a Human Capacity: A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson (2003)



Julie Ingersoll, Evangelical Christian Women (2003)



Aaron Hughes, Texture of the Divine (2004)



D. Jason Slone, Theological Incorrectness (2004)



John Hinnells (ed), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion (2004)



Herb Berg (ed), Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins (2003)



Daniel Gold, Aesthetics and Analysis of Writing on Religion (2003)



Nancy Frankenberry (ed), Radical Interpretation in Religion (2002)



The Academic Study of Religion During the Cold War (2001)



A. Greil and D. Bromley (eds), Defining Religion (2003)



Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion (2003; 1998)



Seth Kunin, Religion: The Modern Theories (2003)



Bernard Faure, The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (2003)



P. Pachis and L. Martin (eds), Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Graeco-Roman Religions (2003; PDF)



Kuk Won Bae, A Critical Understadning of Faith in the Writings of W. C. Smith (2003)



I. Pyysiainen and V. Anttonen (eds), Current Approaches in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2002)



Jeff Carter, Understanding Religious Sacrifice: A Reader (2003)



Darlene Juschka, Feminism in the Study of Religion: A Reader (2001)



Herb Berg, The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam (2000)



William Arnal, Jesus and the Village Scribes (2001)



Tom Lawson and Bob McCauley, Bringing Ritual to Mind (2002)



Tim Murphy, Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion (2001)



Michael Barnes, Stages of Thought (2000)



Burton Mack, The Christian Myth (2001)



Linell Cady and Del Brown (eds), Religious Studies, Theology, and the University (2002)





Derek Peterson and Darren Walhof (eds), The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History (2001)



H. A. Drake, Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance (2000)



Anthony Grafton, Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (2002)



Willi Braun and Russell McCutcheon (eds), Guide to the Study of Religion (2000)



Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained (2002)



Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (2000)



Illka Pyysiainen, How Religion Works: Towards a New Cognitive Science of Religion (2001)



R. Inden, J. Walters, & D. Ali, Querying the Medieval: Texts & the History of Practices in South Asia (2000)



Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular (2003)



Russell McCutcheon, The Discipline of Religion (2003)



William Paden, Interpreting the Sacred (new edition; 2003)



Bruce Lincoln, Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion after Sept. 11 (2002)



Malory Nye, Religion: The Basics (2003)



Jeppe S. Jensen and Luther H. Martin (eds), Rationality and the Study of Religion (2002)



Johannes Wolfart, Religion, Government, and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany (2001)



Steven Sutcliffe, Children of the New Age: A History of Alternative Spirituality (2002)



Donald Wiebe, The Politics of Religious Studies (1999)



Craig Prentiss (ed.), Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity (2003)