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2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1006/reli.1999.0238

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Roealind I.J. Hackett, Andrew Jotischky, Paul Fletcher, Julius Lipner, Gregory D. Alles, Gavin Flood, Stephen C. Berkwitz, Henry Munson, Gwynn Lloyd Jones, Gustavo Benavides, Bryan Rennie,

David Morgan, Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, 265 pp., $35 ISBN 0 520 2097 8. Lutz Kaelber, Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, viii+278 pp., $43.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 271 01754 6, r15.95 (paperback) 0 271 01755 4. James G. Williams (ed.), The Girard Reader. New York, Crossroad, 1996, xii+310 pp., $39.95, £29.99 (hardback) ISBN 0 8245 1609 5, $19.95, £13.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 8245 1634 6. Wilhelm Halbfass (ed.), Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedānta. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1995, viii+369 pp., £15.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 2582 7. Arthur M. McCalla, A Romantic Historiosophy: The Philosophy of History of Pierre- Simon Ballanche. Studies in Intellectual History 82. Leiden, Brill, 1998, ix+464 pp., NLG 275, $162 ISBN 90 04 10967 6. Guari Viswanathan, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998 xx+332 pp., £42.50, $55 (hardback), ISBN 0 691 05898 9, £15.95, $16.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 691 05899 7. Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and Chandra R. de Silva (eds), Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1998, viii+212 pp., $59.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 3833 3, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 3834 1. Lise McKean, Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996, xviii+328 pp., $60, £47.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 56009 0, $21.95, £17.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 56010 4. Irven M. Resnick (trans.), On Original Sin and A Disputation with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God: Two Theological Treatises by Odo of Tournai. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, x+146 pp., £30.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 8122 3288 7, £14.20 (paperback) ISBN 0 8122 1540 0. Russell T. McCutcheon, Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997, xiii+249 pp., $32.00 ISBN 0 19 510503. Douglas Allen, Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade. Theorists of Myth Series. New York, Garland Publishing, 1998, xix+ 375 pp., $75 ISBN 0 824 03720 0.