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Book Reviewed in this Article RELIGION IN GESCHICHTE UND GEGENWART: THE PAST AND PRESENT OF A GERMAN THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY RELIGION IN GESCHICHTE UND GEGENWART: HANDWÖRTERBUCH FÜR THEOLOGIE UND RELIGIONSWISSENSCHAFT. BAND 1: A‐B Edited by Hans Dieter Betz ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, I CAN DO META: HIGH THEORY AND LOW BLOWS IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS STUDIES MANUFACTURING RELIGION: THE DISCOURSE ON SUI GENERIS RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF NOSTALGIA By Russell McCutcheon BEYOND PHENOMENOLOGY: RETHINKING THE STUDY OF RELIGION By Gavin Flood THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES: THE CONTINUING CONFLICT WITH THEOLOGY IN THE ACADEMY By Donald Wiebe REHABILITATING RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE: BRINGING DISABILITY STUDIES TO THE THEOLOGICAL VENUE THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: DEFORMITY AND DISABILITY IN THE GRAECO‐ROMAN WORLD By Robert Garland JUDAISM AND DISABILITIES: PORTRAYALS IN ANCIENT TEXTS FROM THE TANACH THROUGH THE BAVLI By Judith Z. Abrams THE DISABLED GOD: TOWARD A LIBERATORY THEOLOGY OF DISABILITY By Nancy L. Eiesland HUMAN DISABILITY AND THE SERVICE OF GOD: REASSESSING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE Edited by Nancy Eiesland and Don E. Saliers THE BODY AND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE: DISCOURSES OF DISABILITY IN THE HUMANITIES Edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder BUDDHISM AND PSYCHOLOGY: A PERSPECTIVE AT THE MILLENNIUM ZEN AND THE BRAIN: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS By James H. Austin REASONING INTO REALITY: A SYSTEM‐CYBERNETIC MODEL AND THERAPEUTIC INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHIST MIDDLE PATH ANALYSIS By Peter Fenner LACK AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE PROBLEM OF DEATH AND LIFE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY, EXISTENTIALISM, AND BUDDHISM By David Loy GOING TO PIECES WITHOUT FALLING APART: A BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE ON WHOLENESS By Mark Epstein THE COUCH AND THE TREE: DIALOGUES BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BUDDHISM Edited by Anthony Molino RAMAKRISHNA‐VIVEKANANDA RESEARCH: HAGIOGRAPHY VERSUS HERMENEUTICS POSTMODERNITY AND HISTORICITY: REFLECTIONS ON EUGENE HOROWITZ'S POSTMODERN TURN JUDAISM AFTER MODERNITY: PAPERS FROM A DECADE OF FRUITION By Eugene B. Borowitz Lanham RENEWING THE COVENANT: A THEOLOGY FOR THE POSTMODERN JEW By Eugene B. Borowitz REVIEWING THE COVENANT: EUGENE BOROWITZ AND THE POSTMODERN RENEWAL OF JEWISH THEOLOGY By Peter Ochs