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Religion before and after secularism -- True religion and temporal gods -- True religion and consumption -- True religion as special effect.

GenX Religion is the first in-depth collection on this generation's religious experience. The contributors, mostly GenXers themselves, offer both a disciplined methodology and a valuable insider's sensitivity as they examine the differences between GenX religion and "traditional" religious avenues, as well as the wide variety to be found in GenX religious expression itself. -- Publisher description

The volume collects articles that present the current state of the English-language discussion on religion and globalization, especially from sociological and anthroplogical perspectives. A first section consists of theoretical contri-butions which inform the interpretations of the predominantly empirical studies that make up the second section. Overall, the selections show how the develop-ment of global society has contributed greatly to religious transformation; and how in various ways religion has been a significant force in the historical emergence of global society itself. - Content: Introduction, Peter Beyer: English-Language Views of the Role of Religion in Globalization; Section I: Theoretical Statements: Roland Robertson: The Globalization Paradigm: Thinking Globally; John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez: World Society and the Nation-State; Frank J. Lechner: Cultural Aspects of the World System; John H. Simpson: 'The Great Reversal': Selves, Communities, and the Global System; Arjun Appadurai: The Production of Locality; Peter Beyer: What Counts as Religion in Global Society? From Practice to Theory; Section II: Empirical Applications: Peggy Levitt: Local-Level Global Religion: The Case of United States - Dominican Migration; George Thomas: A World-Polity Interpretation of U.S. Religious Trends Since World War II; Rijk A. Van Dijk: From Camp to Encompassment: Discourses on Transsubjectivity in the Ghanian Pentecostal Diaspora; José Casanova: Globalizing Catholicism and the Return to a 'Universal Church'; William R. Garrett: Religion, Law, and the Human Condition; Peter Beyer: The Islamic Revolution in Iran

Brooten, Bernadette Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female HomoeroticismCooper, Kate The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late AntiquitySawyer, Deborah F. Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries

TheEncyclopaedia Iranicais Truly a Monumental Undertaking, Containing thousands of carefully selected items of information covering most aspects of Iranian civilization past and present. As the first seven volumes demonstrate, it is an indispensable reference work that belongs in the libraries of all universities and in the homes of everyone interested in Iran, whether for professional or personal reasons. In connection with ancient or pre-Islamic Iranian religions, theEIrrepresents the most important scholarly contribution since James Hastings edited the thirteen-volumeEncyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics(Edinburgh, 1908-1926, reprint New York, 1955, Edinburgh, 1994). In fact, both may be used as complementary research guides, for the rich descriptions of rituals in theEncyclopaedia of Religion and Ethicsare not repeated in theEIrwhereas the former lacks the up-to-date information on persons, places, events, ideas, theoretical standpoints, and bibliography so fully articulated in the latter.