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The article reviews the books “A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain," edited by N. Ali, V. S. Kalra, and S. Sayyid, "Beyond Bushtalk: Sino-Japanese Literacy Exchange in the Interwar Period," by Christopher T. Keaveney, and "Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture," by Sheldon Lu.

Israel Bartal: The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772–1881, trans. Chaya Naor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 [2002]; pp. vi + 203. Jay R. Berkowitz: Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004; pp. 333. George Bernard: The King's Reformation. Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005; pp. xii + 736. Madeleine Biardeau: Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess. Trans. Alf Hiltebeitel, James Walker, and Marie-Louise Reiniche. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. 358. 108 halftones, 10 figures, 3 maps. T. Patrick Burke: The Major Religions: An Introduction with Texts, 2d ed. Malden, Oxford, and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2004 [1996]; pp. xix + 380. Lorne L. Dawson, ed.: Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader. Malden, MA, Oxford, and Melbourne: Blackwell Publishing, 2003; pp. 312. Carl W. Ernst: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Ian Forrest: The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005; pp. vii + 277. Ian Hunter, John Christian Anderson, and Cary J. Nederman, eds: Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Catholic Christendom, 300–1700. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2005; pp. xii + 205. Marion Maddox: God Under Howard: The Rise of The Religious Right in Australian Politics. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005; pp. 386. Arthur F. Marotti: Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2005; pp. xii + 307. Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, eds: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003; pp. 224. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, eds: Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. 307. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, ed.: The Hindu World. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. pp. 657. Karla Poewe: New Religions and the Nazis. New York and London: Routledge, 2006; pp. xii + 218. Adam Possamai: Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyperreal Testament. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005; pp. 176. Janine Tasca Sawada: Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, 2004: pp. 432. Stefanie B. Siegmund: The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006; pp. xxii + 624, 2 maps, 9 figures. Anna M. Silvas: The Asketikon of St Basil the Great, Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; pp. xx + 517, 1 map, 7 appendices. Michael Strmiska (ed.): Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2005; pp. ix + 382. Robert A. F. Thurman andthe AIBSteam, trans.: The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara). New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and Columbia University's Centre for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, 2004. pp. 368. Claire Walker: Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; pp. xii + 247. R. Willis and P. Curry: Astrology, Science, and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004; pp. v + 170. John Witte, Jr. and Robert Kingdon: Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin's Geneva: Volume 1: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage. Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Cambridge: William B. Eeardmans Publishing Company, 2005; pp. xxxii + 512. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Isami's House: Three Centuries of Japanese Family," by Gail Lee Berstein, "Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960-2000," by Peter Eckersall and "Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation," edited by Steven T. Brown.

Reviews several books about Asian studies. "Representation of Childhood and Youth in Early China," by Anne Behnke Kinney; "China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation," by Karl Gerth; "China's Challenges in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Joseph Y. S. Cheng.

Reviews the book "Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China," by Patricia Berger.

A review of the book "Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism," by Peter Flueckiger is presented.