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Book Reviews

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Pages 299-315 | Published online: 22 Feb 2011
 

Angela M. Lahr, Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007, viiD281 pp., $60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0195314489.

Kathryn McClymond, Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, xD216 pp., $55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 8018 8776 5.

Sarah Iles Johnston, ed., Ancient Religions. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004, xiD266 pp., $19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 674 02548 6.

H.G.M. Williamson, ed., Understanding the History of Ancient Israel. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, xxD432 pp., $99.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 19 726401 0.

Robert Rozehnal, Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty-First Century Pakistan. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xD275 pp., $69.95 (hardback), ISBN 1 4039 7567 1.

Terry Rey, Bourdieu on Religion. Imposing Faith and Legitimacy. London, Equinox, 2007, 181 pp., $65 (hardback), ISBN 9781845532857, $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781845532864.

William Harmless, S.J., Mystics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, xvD368 pp., $18.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 19 530039 0.

David J. Bartholomew. God, Chance, and Purpose: Can God Have It Both Ways? Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ivD259 pp., $80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 521 88085 5, $19.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 521 70708 4.

John Renard, Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, xxD346 pp., $60 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 520 24291 3, $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 520 25198 4.

Ussama Makdisi, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008, xiD262 pp., $35 (cloth), ISBN 978 0 8014 4621 4.

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