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The article reviews several books on Buddhism, politics, modernization and globalization in contemporary Taiwan, including "Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society," edited by Philip Clart and Charles B. Jones, "The Making of Buddhist Modernism," by David L. McMahan and "Religion and Democracy in Taiwan," by Cheng-Tian Kuo.

Book Reviewed in this Article THEOLOGY, DIALOGUE, AND RELIGIOUS OTHERS: SOME RECENT BOOKS IN THE THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS AND RELATED FIELDS1 THEOLOGY AND THE DIALOGUE OF RELIGIONS By Michael Barnes MANY MANSIONS? MULTIPLE RELIGIOUS BELONGING AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY Edited by Catherine Cornille THE MEETING OF RELIGIONS AND THE TRINITY By Gavin D'Costa CHRISTIANITY AND THE RELIGIONS: FROM CONFRONTATION TO DIALOGUE By Jacques Dupuis PROBLEMS OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY By Paul J. Griffiths SIC ET NON: ESSAYS ON DOMINUS IESUS By Charles Hefling and Stephen Pope DEPTH OF THE RICHES: A TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS ENDS By Mark S. Heim DIFFERENT PATHS, DIFFERENT SUMMITS: A MODEL FOR RELIGIOUS PLURALISM By Stephen Kaplan Rowman INTRODUCING THE THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS By Paul Knitter RELIGIOUS AMBIGUITY AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY By Robert McKim RADICAL DIFFERENCE: A DEFENCE OF HENDRIK KRAEMER'S THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS By Tim S. Perry PLACING CATHOLICISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA CLAIMING THE CITY: POLITICS, FAITH, AND POWER OF PLACE IN ST. PAUL By Mary Lethert Wingerd Edited by R. Scott Appleby PARISH BOUNDARIES: THE CATHOLIC ENCOUNTER WITH RACE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY URBAN NORTH By John T. McGreevy Edited by James R. Grossman and Kathleen N. Conzen SAVING THE HEARTLAND: CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN RURAL AMERICA, 1920-1960 By Jeffrey Marlett THE POOR BELONG TO US: CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND AMERICAN WELFARE By Dorothy M. Brown and Elizabeth McKeown THANK YOU, ST. JUDE: WOMEN'S DEVOTION TO THE PATRON SAINT OF HOPELESS CAUSES By Robert A. Orsi CATHOLIC WOMEN'S COLLEGES IN AMERICA Edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett CATHOLICS AND AMERICAN CULTURE: FULTON SHEEN, DOROTHY DAY, AND THE NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL TEAM By Mark S. Massa PSYCHOLOGY AND AMERICAN CATHOLICISM: FROM CONFESSION TO THERAPY? By C. Kevin Gillespie, S.J. New York: Crossroads, 2001 Pp. xviii + 214. SELLING CATHOLICISM: BISHOP SHEEN AND THE POWER OF TELEVISION By Christopher Owen Lynch DR. AMERICA: THE LIVES OF THOMAS A. DOOLEY, 1927-1961 By James T. Fisher FINDING OUR WAY HOME: THEOLOGIANS' RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ETHICS OF FAMILY THE CHILD IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Edited by Marcia Bunge FAMILY: A CHRISTIAN SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE By Lisa Cahill SEX AND LOVE IN THE HOME: A THEOLOGY OF THE HOUSEHOLD By David Matzko-McCarthy MORE LASTING UNIONS: CHRISTIANITY, THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY By Stephen G. Post MICHEL DESPLAND: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION IN HISTORY LA RELIGION EN OCCIDENT: ÉVOLUTION DES IDÉES ET DU VÉCU By Michel Despland THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE: PLATO AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION By Michel Despland READING AN ERASED CODE: ROMANTIC RELIGION AND LITERARY AESTHETICS IN FRANCE By Michel Despland LES HIÉRARCHIES SONT ÉBRANLÉES: POLITIQUES ET THÉOLOGIES AU XIXE SIÉCLE By Michel Despland L'ÉMERGENCE DES SCIENCES DE LA RELIGION. LA MONARCHIE DE JUILLET: UN MOMENT FONDATEUR By Michel Despland [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Book Reviewed in this Article THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO DARWIN: THE RELEVANCE OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES* HOW THE MIND WORKS. By Steven Pinker PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN: PROBING THE MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN MIND. By V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF DREAMS: A CLINICO-ANATOMICAL STUDY. By Mark Solms WHY GOD WON'T GO AWAY: BRAIN SCIENCE AND THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF. By Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN THE COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY OF FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J. THINKING RITUALLY: REDISCOVERING THE PŪRVA M?MĀMSĀ OF JAIMINI. THEOLOGY AFTER VEDANTA: AN EXPERIMENT IN COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY. SEEING THROUGH TEXTS: DOING THEOLOGY AMONG THE ŚRIVAISNAVAS OF SOUTH INDIA. HINDU WISDOM FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN. Faith Meets Faith Series PREACHING WISDOM TO THE WISE: THREE TREATISES BY ROBERTO DE NOBILI, S.J., MISSIONARY AND SCHOLAR IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY INDIA. Translated and Introduced by Anand Amaladass, S.J. and Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Jesuit HINDU GOD, CHRISTIAN GOD. 'RELIGION' AND RELIGIONS IN LEGAL THEORY THE RHETORIC OF CHURCH AND STATE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF RELIGION CLAUSE JURISPRUDENCE. By Frederick Mark REGULATING RELIGION: THE COURTS AND THE FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE. By Catharine Cookson RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS V. CHILDREN'S RIGHTS. By James G. Dwyer JUDGING JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND THE DAWN OF THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION. By Shawn Francis Peters Lawrence IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: RELIGION IN POPULAR CULTURE JESUS IN DISNEYLAND: RELIGION IN POSTMODERN TIMES. By David Lyon RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE IN AMERICA. Edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan GOD IN THE DETAILS: AMERICAN RELIGION IN POPULAR CULTURE. Edited by Eric Michael Mazur and Kate McCarthy EYES WIDE OPEN: LOOKING FOR GOD IN POPULAR CULTURE. By William D. Romanowski Grand VIRTUAL FAITH: THE IREVERENT SPIRITUAL QUEST OF GENERATION X. By Tom Beaudoin GIVE ME THAT ONLINE RELIGION. By Brenda E. Brasher BARING OUR SOULS: TV TALK SHOWS AND THE RELIGION OF RECOVERY. By Katheleen S. Lowney E: REFLECTIONS ON THE BIRTH OF THE ELVIS FAITH. By John Strausbaugh THE JOURNEY OF LUKE SKYWALKER: AN ANALYSIS OF MODERN MYTH AND SYMBOL. By Steven A. Galipeau STAR TREK AND SACRED GROUND: EXPLORATIONS OF STAR TREK, RELIGION, AND AMERICAN CULTURE. Edited by Jennifer E. Porter and Darcee L. McLaren AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM AND LEISURE HOLY DAY, HOLIDAY: THE AMERICAN SUNDAY. By Alexis McCrossen POPULAR CULTURE WARS: RELIGION & THE ROLE OF ENTERTAINMENT IN AMERICAN LIFE. By William D. Romanowski HOLY LEISURE: RECREATION AND RELIGION IN GOD'S SQUARE MILE. By Troy Messenger REVIVALS AND ROLLER RINKS: RELIGION, LEISURE, AND IDENTITY IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY SMALL-TOWN ONTARIO. By Lynne Marks HEARING THINGS: RELIGION, ILLUSION, AND THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT. By Leigh Eric THE EVANGELIST AND THE IMPRESARIO: RELIGION, ENTERTAINMENT, AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN AMERICA, 1884-1914. By Kathryn J. Oberdeck MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION: A PROGRESS REPORT WOMEN OF BABYLON: GENDER AND REPRESENTATION IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA By Zainab Bahrani DICTIONARY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. By Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF AKKADIAN. Second Edition. By Jeremy Black RELIGION IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA. By Jean Bottero; translated by T. Fagan EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. By Jean Bottero; translated by A. Nevill THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: A NEW TRANSLATION, ANALOGUES, CRITICISM. By Benjamin Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: A NEW TRANSLATION. By Andrew George A MANUAL OF SUMERIAN GRAMMAR AND TEXTS. Second Edition. By John L. Hayes A GRAMMAR OF AKKADIAN. Second Edition. By John Huehnergard WHO'S WHO IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. By Gwendolyn Leick CUNEIFORM TEXTS AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY. By Marc van de Mieroop DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA. By Karen Nemet-Nejat HAMMURABI'S LAWS: TEXT, TRANSLATION AND GLOSSARY. By M. E. J. Richardson LIFE IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. By Daniel Snell A SUMERIAN READER. Second Edition. By Konrad Volk THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR STUDENTS, 4 vols. By Ronald Wallenfels THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A REVIEW THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, 2 VOLS. Edited by L. H. Schiffman and J. C. VanderKam [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]