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Reviews the book "The Rajneesh Papers: Studies in a New Religious Movement," edited by Susan J. Palmer and Arvind Sharma.

Reviews the book "Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion," by Jordan Paper.

HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Edited by Helen Rose Ebaugh. New York: Springer, 2005. xxii + 439 pp. $199.00 cloth, $69.95 paper. A CHURCH OF OUR OWN: DISESTABLISHMENT AND DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN RELIGION. By R. Stephen Warner. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ix + 307 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. SACRED CIRCLES, PUBLIC SQUARES: THE MULTICENTERING OF AMERICAN RELIGION, by Arthur E. Farnsley II, N. J. Demerath III, Etan Diamond, Mary Mapes, and Elfriede Wedam. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 272 pp. $45.00 cloth. SAVING SOULS, SERVING SOCIETY: UNDERSTANDING THE FAITH FACTOR IN CHURCH-BASED SOCIAL MINISTRY. By Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 323 pp. $35.00 cloth. POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE WHITE SOUTH. Edited by Glenn Feldman. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xiii + 386 pp. $55.00 cloth. AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL INTEGRATION IN RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. By Brad Christerson, Korie L. Edwards, and Michael O. Emerson. New York: New York University Press, 2005. ix + 197 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.00 paper. A MOSAIC OF BELIEVERS: DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN A MULTIETHNIC CHURCH. By Gerardo Marti. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. ix + 239 pp. $39.95 cloth. T. D. JAKES: AMERICA'S NEWEST PREACHER. By Shayne Lee. New York: New York University Press, 2005. x+201 pp. $27.95 cloth. QUOTING GOD: HOW MEDIA SHAPE IDEAS ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE. Edited by Claire Hoertz Badaracco. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2005. xv + 307 pp. $$29.95 paper. THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SHOW LIKE VEGGIE TALES: SACRED MESSAGES IN A SECULAR MARKET. By Hillary Warren. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2005. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. SCHOLARSHIP AND CHRISTIAN FAITH: ENLARGING THE CONVERSATION. By Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii–190 pp. $35.00 cloth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this article: CULTS, RELIGION, AND VIOLENCE. Edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 270 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.00 paper. THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF RELIGION: VIOLENCE IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM. Edited by J. Harold Ellens. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 4 volumes. $300.00 cloth. SACRED FURY: UNDERSTANDING RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE. By Charles Selengut. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. viii + 269 pp. $69.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. ETHNORELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A GENERAL THEORY. By Jonathan Fox. New York: Lexington Books, 2002. ix + 253pp. $70.00 cloth. COMPETITIVE SPIRITS: LATIN AMERICA'S NEW RELIGIOUS ECONOMY. By R. Andrew Chesnut. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi +189 pp. $35.00 cloth. NEW DAY BEGUN: AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES AND CIVIC CULTURE IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICA. Edited by R. Drew Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 310 pp. $29.95 cloth. FAITH, MORALITY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY. Edited by Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. xvii + 232 pp. $70.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. RELIGION AS SOCIAL CAPITAL: PRODUCING THE COMMON GOOD. Edited by Corwin Smidt. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003. vii + 266 pp. $34.95 paper. THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: MARCHING TO THE MILLENNIUM. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. viii + 296 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. THE PROPHETIC PULPIT: CLERGY, CHURCHES, AND COMMUNITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS. By Paul A. Djupe and Christopher P. Gilbert. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xi + 257 pp. $80.00 cloth; $28.95 paper. BLACK MAGIC: RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION. By Yvonne P. Chireau. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ix + 222 pp. $34.95, cloth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

REGULATING RELIGION: CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. Edited by James T. Richardson. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. xiv+ 578 pp.$216.00 cloth,$95.00 paper.PAGAN THEOLOGY: PAGANISM AS A WORLD RELIGION. By Michael York. New York/London: New York University Press, 2003. x+ 239 pp.$40.00 cloth.THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT: ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET'S APOCALYPTIC MOVEMENT. By Bradley C. Whitsel. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xvi+ 221pp.$39.95 cloth,$19.95 paper.MAIN STREET MYSTICS: THE TORONTO BLESSING AND REVIVING PENTECOSTALISM. By Margaret M. Poloma. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003. 256 pp.$72.00 cloth,$26.95 paper.THE PENITENTE BROTHERHOOD: PATRIARCHY AND HISPANO-CATHOLICISM IN NEW MEXICO. By Michael P. Carroll. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. vii+ 259 pp.$45.00 cloth.CATHOLICISM, LA FIN D'UN MONDE. By Danièle Hervieu-Léger. Paris, France: Bayard, 2003. 234 pp.€23 paper.THEY CALL HIM PASTOR: MARRIED MEN IN CHARGE OF CATHOLIC PARISHES. By Ruth A. Wallace. New York: Paulist Press, 2003. 276 pp.$19.95 paper.THE HISTORY OF THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. By Peter J. Paris, John Wesley Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence H. Mamiya, Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, and Judith Weisenfeld, with a foreword by Martin E. Marty. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xiv+ 350 pp.$29.95 cloth.RELIGION IN THE LIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS: SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND HEALTH PERSPECTIVES. By Robert J. Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, and Jeff Levin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. xvii+ 300 pp.$69.95 cloth,$34.95 paper.THE SECULAR REVOLUTION: POWER, INTERESTS, AND CONFLICT IN THE SECULARIZATION OF AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE. Edited by Christian Smith. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. xii+ 484 pp.$60.00 cloth,$24.95 paper.SCHOOL BOARD BATTLES: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN LOCAL POLITICS. By Melissa M. Deckman. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. xvi+ 224 pp.$39.95 cloth,$26.95 paper.MEDIA, HOME, AND FAMILY. By Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane F. Alters, with Joseph G. Champ and Lee Hood. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+ 209 pp.$85.00 cloth,$22.95 paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]