Book reviews (2000)

Hannah Arendt, Love and Saint Augustine, edited and with an Interpretive Essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996, xx+233 pp., $22.50 ISBN 0 226 02596 9. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1995, xiv+143 pp., $21.95 ISBN 0 268 00645 8. Jaroslav Krejčí (ed.), Human Rights and Responsibilities in a Divided World. Prague Filosofia, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, 1996, 143 pp., ISBN 80 7007 086 2. Ford Russell, Northop Frye on Myth: An Introduction. Theorists of Myth Series. New York, Garland Publishing, 1998, xix+245 pp., Â£37.00 ISBN 0 8240 3446 5. Robert A. Paul, Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind FreudÂ's Myth. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996, vii+288 pp., $32.50 ISBN 0 300 06428 4. John Ross Carter, On Understanding Buddhists: Essays on the Theravāda Tradition in Sri Lanka. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1993, xiv+251 pp., $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 1413 2, $16.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 1414 0. Ivan Strenski, Durkheim and the Jews of France. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ix+215 pp., Â£32.75 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 77723 5, Â£12.75 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 77724. Bruce Lincoln, Authority: Construction and Corrosion. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994, xii+228 pp., $22.50 ISBN 0 226 48177 2. Daniel Dubuisson, LÂ’Occident et la Religion: Mythes, science et idéologie. Paris, Éditions Complexe, 1998, 333 pp., FF 144 ISBN 2 87027 696 6. Regina M. Schwartz, The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, xv+211 pp., $22.95, Â£18.25 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 74199 0, $14, Â£11.25 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 74200 8. David Fergusson, Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 230 pp., Â£35 ISBN 0 521 49678 0. Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew T. Kapstein (eds), Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, 207 pp. (with 34 black and white illustrations), $40, Â£30 (hardback) ISBN 0 520 21130 8, $15.95, Â£11.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 520 21131 6. Bassam Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, xv+262 pp., $29.95, Â£18.95 ISBN 0 520 08868 9. J. E. Llewellyn, The Legacy of WomenÂ's Uplift in India: Contemporary Women Leaders in the Arya Samaj. New Delhi/ London, Sage Publications, 1998, 225 pp., Â£35.00 ISBN 0 7619 92529. Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson (eds), What is Religion? Origins, Definitions, and Explanations. Leiden, Brill, 1998, ix+180 pp., Nlg. 120, $70.75 ISBN 90 04 11022 4. Frank Cioffi, Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 310 pp., Â£40.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 59307 7, Â£14.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 521 62624 2 Charles Penglase, Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Poems and Hesiod. London, Routledge, 1997, xii+278 pp., $25.99, Â£15.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 415 56706 4. Ariel Glucklich, The End of Magic. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997, viii +253 pp., r50, Â£37.99 (hardback) ISBN 0 195 10879 5, $19.95, Â£14.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 195 10880 9. Bernard McGinn, Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages. New York, Columbia University Press, 1998, xxvii+390 pp., $17.50, Â£14.00 (paperback) ISBN 0 231 11257 2.