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The article reviews several books including "Religion in China Today," edited by Daniel Overmyer, "Chinese Religious Life," edited by David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip L. Wickeri and "State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies," edited by Joseph B. Tamney and Fenggang Yang.

The article reviews several books on religion and violence, including "A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugene Drewermann," by Matthias Beier "Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition," by Hans Boersma and "Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives From Kant to Derrida," by Hent de Vries.

Reviews the book "Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West," edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal.

Reviews the book "Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Outline of Indian Non-Realism," by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad.

Reviews the book "Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance," by Jean M. Langford.

Reviews the book "Religious Process: The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition," by Kunal Chakrabarti.

The article reviews several books including "The God Delusion," by Richard Dawkins, "The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion," by E. O. Wilson and "Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge," by Alan B. Wallace.

The article reviews several books on HIV/AIDS and religion, including "AIDS in Jewish Thought and Law," edited by Gad Freudenthal, "When God's People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics," by Maria Cimperman, and "Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention," edited by James F. Keenan.

The article reviews the book "Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics," by Samuel Moyn.

The article reviews several books on Pentecostalism, including "Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture," by Grant Wacker, "Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America," edited by Edward Cleary and Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino and "Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish," by David Martin.

The article reviews several Christian women's spiritual autobiographies, including "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography," by Kathleen Norris, "Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life," by Roberta Bondi and "A Body Knows: A Theopoetics of Death and Resurrection," by Melanie A. May.

The article reviews several books including "European Cases of the Reincarnation Type," by Ian Stevenson, "Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century," by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gould, Michael Grosso and Bruce Greyson and "The Conscious Universe: Scientific Evidence for Psi Phenomena," by Dean Radin.

The article reviews several books about children and religion, including "The Child in Christian Thought," edited by Marcia Bunge, "Welcoming Children: A Practical Theology of Childhood," by Joyce Ann Mercer and "Grand Vulnerability: A Theology of Childhood," by David H. Jensen.

The article reviews several book about Buddhist art in medieval China including "Ordinary Images," by Stanley K. Abe, "The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture," by John Kieschnick and "Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia," by Sarah E. Fraser.

Reviews the book "Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis," by Celia Brickman.

Reviews several books about religion including "Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions," by Joseph Ratzinger and translated by Henry Taylor, "Jesus and Politics: Confronting the Powers," by Alan Storkey, and "Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture," by T. J. Gorringe.

Reviews several books on Pentecontalism. "The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity," by Simon Coleman; "Pentecontalism: The World Their Parish," by David Martin; "Charismatic Christianity As a Global Culture," edited by Karla Poewe.

Reviews several books on religion. "A Psychology of Ultimate Concern: Erik H. Erikson's Contribution to the Psychology of Religion," by Hetty Zock; "Religion, Psychopathology, and Coping," edited by Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; "Religion, Belief, and Unbelief: A Psychological Study," by Antoon Vergote.

Reviews several books on shamanism. "The Concept of Shamanism: Uses and Abuses," edited by Henry-Paul Francfort and Roberte N. Hamayon; "Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination," by Ronald Hutton; "Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology," edited by Andrei A. Znamenski.

Reviews several books about religion. "Bible and Qur'an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality," edited by John C. Reeves; "Intersecting Pathways: Modern Jewish Theologians in Conversation With Christianity," by Marc A. Krell; "Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions," edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa.

Reviews several books about women's autobiographical spiritual writing. "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography," by Kathleen Norris; "Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life," by Roberta Bondi; "A Body Knows: A Theopoetics of Death and Resurrection," by Melanie A. May.

Reviews several books about religion. "The Major Religions: An Introduction With Texts," 2nd ed., by T. Patrick Burke; "World Religions: A Historical Approach," 3rd ed., by Solomon G. Nigosian; "A History of the World's Religions," 11th ed., by David S. Noss.

Reviews the book "Pompey the Great: A Political Biography," second edition, by Robin Seager.

Reviews several books on religion and architecture. "Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C.," by Jeffrey F. Meyer; "The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison," by Lindsay Jones; "Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut's Churches, 1790-1840," by Gretchen Buggeln; "Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930," by Paul Eli Ivey.

Reviews several books on religion and film. "Religion in Film," edited by John R. May and Michael S. Bird; "New Image of Religious Film," edited by John R. May; "Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue," by Robert K. Johnson; "How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film," by Erin Runions.