Book Reviews

2001      Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion by Russell T. McCutcheon. Studies in Religion 30: 463 – 464.

1996       The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science by Robert M. Torrance. Dialogue & Alliance 10.1: 119 – 123.

1995       Ritual Passages and Narrative Structures by Langdon Elsbree. Journal of Ritual Studies 8.2: 136 – 138.

1993       Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events by Don Handelman. Canadian Folklore 15.1: 152 – 153.

1992b    Vision Quest: Native Spirituality & the Church in Canada by Janet Hodgson and Jay Kothare. Studies in Religion. Studies in Religion 20.3: 398.

1991b     Diversities of Gifts: Field Studies in Southern Religion, edited by Ruel Tyson, Jr., and others. Journal of Ritual Studies 5.2: 132 – 133.

1991a     Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge by James L. Peacock and Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Journal of Ritual Studies 5.1: 142 – 144.

1990b Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion by Jordan Paper. American Indian Quarterly 14.4: 400 – 402.

1990a    Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana by Wendy O’Flaherty. Anthropologica 88.2: 223 – 224.

1990       Between Theater and Anthropology by Richard Schechner. Man.

1990       The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview and Social Change in Brittany by Ellen Badone. Studies in Religion .

1989       Ritual, Politics, and Power by David Kertzer. Journal of Religion 69.2: 288 – 289.

1987b    One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales by John M. Ellis. Religious Studies Review 13.2: 162.

1987a Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico, 1694-1875 by David M. Brugge. American Indian Quarterly 9.4: 340-341.

1985f     International Meditation Bibliography, by Howard R. Jarrell. Religious Studies Review 11.1: 44.

1985e    The Nature of Love by Irving Singer. Religious Studies Review 11.3: 264.

1985d    Das tanzende Wort: Intellektuelle Rituale im Religionsvergleich ed. by Bernhard Lang. Religious Studies Review 11.1: 44.

1985c     Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets by Yi-Fu Tuan. Religious Studies Review 11.3: 265.

1985b    Storytelling, Imagination, and Faith by William J. Bausch. Religious Studies Review 11.3: 278.

1985a    The Metaphoric Process by Mary Gerhart. Religious Studies Review 11.1: 40.

1984       The Death Rituals of Rural Greece by Loring M. Danforth. Religious Studies Review 10.2: 152.

1983e    Initiation to Adulthood by William O. Roberts, Jr. Religious Studies Review 9.3: 245.

1983d    Liturgies and Trials by Richard Fenn. Religious Studies Review 9.3: 246.

1983c     Ritual, Religion, and the Sacred, by Robert Forster and Orest Ranum. Religious Studies Review 9.3: 244-245.

1983b    The Pure Experience of Order: Essays on the Symbolic in the Folk Material Culture of Western America, by Richard C. Poulsen. Religious Studies Review 9.3: 293.

1983a    At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology, by Gary Urton. Mentalities 1.2: 38-39.

1982b    The Quest of the Self in the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, by Michael Sexson. Religious Studies Review 8.4: 369.

1982a    Not with Words of Wisdom: Performative Language and Liturgy, by James H. Ware, Jr. Religious Studies Review 8.4: 356.

1979b    “Ronald L. Grimes, Comments on Kenneth Westhues’ review of Symbol and Conquest.” Reviews in Anthropology, Winter, 125-127.

1979a     Ritual, Play, and Performance by Richard Schechner and Mady Schuman. Worship 53.5: 455-456.

1977       Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction, by Samuel C. Heilman. Religious Studies Review, July, 163.

1976       Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall. Parabola, Fall.4.12.

1975b    Religion and Modern Literature: Essays in Theory and Criticism, ed. by G.B. Tennyson and Edward E. Erickson. Religious Studies Review 1.1: 48.

1975a     Time and Myth: A Meditation on Storytelling as an Exploration of Life and Death, by John S. Dunne. Religious Studies Review 1.1: 49.

1973       The Unholy Bible: A Psychological Interpretation of William Blake, by June K. Singer. Journal of The American Academy of Religion, September, 460-461.

1970b    “Dreaming Dialectically.” Review of Freud and Philosophy by Paul Ricoeur. Catholic World, October, 50-51.

1970a    The Mystic Vision, ed. by Joseph Campbell. Union Seminary Quarterly Review 25.4: 574-577.

1969b    The Presence and Absence of God, ed. by Christopher Mooney. The Religious Significance of Atheism, by Alasdair MacIntrye and Paul Ricoeur. The Idea of God, compiled and edited by H. Madden, Rollo Handy, and Marvin Farber. Union Seminary Quarterly Review 25.1: 86-91.

1969a     The New Apocalypse, by Thomas J.J. Altizer. Union Seminary Quarterly Review 24.3: 294-298.