INDEX TO VOLUME 38 I. AUTHORS BIRRELL, ANNE M., James Leg ge and the Chinese Mythological Co Tradition BLACKBURN, ANNE M., Magic in the Monastery: Textual Practice and Monastic Identity in Sri Lanka BowWEN, JOHN R., Qur°an, Justice, Gender: Internal Debates in Indo- nesian Islamic Jurisprudence FRIEDLAND, ROGER, and RICHARD HECHT, The Bodies of Nations: A Comparative Study of Religious Violence in Jerusalem and Ayodhya GoLD, ANN GRODZINS, Grains of Truth: Shifting Hierarchies of Food and Grace in Three Rajasthani Tales Kwon, HEONIK, Play the Bear: Myth and Ritual in East Siberia MEsSICK, BRINKLEY, Written Identities: Legal Subjects in an Islamic State MONROE, JOHN, Making the Seance “Serious”: Tables Tournantes and Second Empire Bourgeois Culture, 1853-1861 Moosa, EBRAHIM, Allegory of the Rule (Hukm): Law as Simulacrum in Islam? PINAULT, Davip, Shia Lamentation Rituals and Reinterpretations of the Doctrine of Intercession: Two Cases from Modern India WALTERS, JOHNATHAN S., Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the Sermon on the Noole Quest (Ariyapariyesanasutta) WHITE, DAvID GORDON, Transformations in the Art of Love: Kamakala Practices in Hindu Tantric and Kaula Traditions Hi.. TITLES Allegory of the Rule (Hukm): Law as Simulacrum in Islam? The Bodies of Nations: A Comparative Study of Religious Violence in Jerusalem and Ayodhya 418 Index to Volume 37 Grains of Truth: Shifting Hierarchies of Food and Grace in Three Rajasthani Tales James Legge and the Chinese Mythological Tradition Magic in the Monasiery: Textual Practice and Monastic Identity in Sri Lanka Making the Seance “Serious”: Tables Tournantes and Second Empire Bourgeois Culture, 1853-1861 Play the Bear: Myth and Ritual in East Siberia Qur°’an, Justice, Gender: Internal Debates in Indonesian Islamic Jurisprudence Shia Lamentation Rituals and Reinterpretations of the Doctrine of Intercession: Two Cases from Modern India Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the Sermon on the Noble Quest (Ariyapariyesanasutta) Transformations in the Art of Love: Kamakala Practices in Hindu Tantric and Kaula Traditions Written Identities: Legal Subjects in an Islamic State lll. BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES ALLES, GREGORY D., ed. and trans., Rudolf Otto: Autobiographical and Social Essays (Ivan Strenski) BABB, LAWRENCE A., Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Jacob N. Kinnard) BABB, LAWRENCE A., and SUSAN S. WADLEY, eds., Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia (Arshia Sattar) BASSIE-SWEET, KAREN, Af the Edge of the World: Caves and Late Classic Maya World View (Lindsay Jones) BERKSON, CARMEL, The Divine and the Demonic: Mahisa’s Heroic Struggle with Durga (Thomas B. Coburn) BLACKBURN, STUART, Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India (Paula Richman) BREMMER, JAN N., Greek Religion (Cristiano Grottanelli) The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal: An Epic of South India, trans- lated with an introduction and postscript by R. PARTHASARATHY (Paula Richman) CRAWFORD, PATRICIA, Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720 (Lori Anne Ferrell) FABRE-VASSAS, CLAUDINE, The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig (Sander L. Gilman) FIRTH, RAYMOND, Religion: A Humanist Interpretation (Richard J. Parmentier) FLORIDA, NANCY K., Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (Laurie J. Sears) FRANCIS, JAMES A., Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Roman World (Maud W. Gleason) History of Religions HAMBURGER, JEFFREY F,, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Caroline Walker Bynum) HALLAQ, WAEL B., A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduc- tion to the Sunni usul al-figh (Aziz Al-Azmeh) HATCHER, BRIAN A.., Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagaarnd Cultural Encounter in Bengal (Edward C. Dimock) Hsia, R. Po-Cuia, Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial (Euan Cameron) JOHANSEN, JULIAN, Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt (Earle H. Waugh) JONES, LINDSAY, Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichén Itza (Anthony F. Aveni) KAKAR, SUDHIR, The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict (Peter van der Veer) KAMMERER, CORNELIA ANN, and NICOLA TANNENBAUM, eds., Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspec- tive (Jean DeBernardi) KATZ, JONATHAN G., Dreams, Sufism and Sainthood: The Visionary Career of Muhammad al-Zaw4wi (Earle H. Waugh) LADERMAN, GARY, The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes toward Death, 1799-1883 (Winnifred Fallers Sullivan) LANDAU, PAUL STEWART, The Realm of the Word: Languages, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (Cynthia Hoehler- Fatton) Law, JANE MARIE, Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition (Gary L. Ebersole) LEE, M. Owen, Virgil as Orpheus: A Study of the “Georgics” (Stephanie Nelson) MEEKS, DIMITRI, and CHRISTINE FAVARD-MEEKS, Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Jgrgen Podemann S¢grensen) Monson, CratG A., Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent (Ulrike Strasser) MULLIN, ROBERT Bruce, Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagi- nation (Andrew Greeley) NASSTROM, BRITT-MARI, Freyja—the Great Goddess of the North (Morten Lund Warmind) O’LEARY, STEPHEN D., Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millen- nial Rhetoric (Eric J. Ziolkowsk1) PATTON, LAURIE L., ed., Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation (J. C. Heesterman) ROBBINS, VERNON K., The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (Eugene V. Gallagher) SAPERSTEIN, Marc, “Your Voices Like a Ram’s Horn”: Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Teaching (Benjamin D. Sommer) SCHMITT, CARL, Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Steven M. Wasserstrom) 420 Index to Volume 37 SCHOBER, JULIANE, ed., Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia (John Clifford Holt) SERED, SUSAN STARR, Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women (Carole A. Myscofski) STETKEVYCH, JAROSLAV, Muhammad the Golden Bough: Reconstruct- ing Arabian Myth (Scott C. Alexander) STROUMSA, Guy G., Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (Bernard McGinn) SWAIN, TONY, and GARRY TRoMPF, The Religions of Oceania (Mary N. MacDonald) TRAINOR, KEVIN, Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition (Jacob N. Kinnard) YOUNGER, PAUL, The Home of Dancing Siva: The Traditions of the Hindu Temple in Citamparam (William Harman)