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Book reviewed in this article: A SYMPOSIUM ON RODNEY STARK'S THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY: THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY: A SOCIOLOGIST RECONSIDERS HISTORY By Rodney Stark WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FROM CULTURE WARS TO COMMON GROUND: RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN FAMILY DEBATE By Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, and Robert M. Franklin WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FAMILIES IN ANCIENT ISRAEL By Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, John J. Collins, and Carol Meyers WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FAMILIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WORLD: HOUSEHOLDS AND HOUSE CHURCHES By Carolyn Osiek and David L. Balch WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FAITH TRADITIONS AND THE FAMILY Edited by Phyllis D. Airhart and Margaret Lamberts Bendroth WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: COVENANTS AND COMMITMENTS: FAITH, FAMILY, AND ECONOMIC LIFE By Max L. Stackhouse WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN: GENETIC TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY By Ted Peters WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: RELIGION, FEMINISM, AND THE FAMILY Edited by Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: FAITH AND ORDER: THE RECONCDLIATION OF LAW AND RELIGION By Harold J. Berman LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: BOUNDARIES DIMLY PERCEIVED: LAW, RELIGION, EDUCATION, AND THE COMMON GOOD By Christopher F. Mooney, S. J. LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: FOREORDAINED FAILURE: THE QUEST FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM By Steven D. Smith LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: PLEASE DON'T WISH ME A MERRY CHRISTMAS: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE By Stephen M. Feldman LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: PAYING THE WORDS EXTRA: RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan INTERPRETING JUDAISM IN A POSTMODERN AGE Edited by Steven Kepnes MORMON STUDIES: MORMONS AND THE BIBLE: THE PLACE OF THE LATTER‐DAY SAINTS IN AMERICAN RELIGION By Philip L. Barlow MORMON STUDIES: THE JOURNALS OF WDLLIAM E. McLELLIN, 1831–1836 Edited by Jan B. Shipps and John W. Welch MORMON STUDIES: THE REFINER'S FIRE: THE MAKING OF MORMON COSMOLOGY, 1644–1844 By John L. Brooke MORMON STUDIES: THE VIPER ON THE HEARTH: MORMONS, MYTHS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HERESY By Terryl L. Givens MORMON STUDIES: THE MORMON HIERARCHY: EXTENSIONS OF POWER By D. Michael Quinn MORMON STUDIES: SAME‐SEX DYNAMICS AMONG NINETEENTH‐CENTURY AMERICANS: A MORMON EXAMPLE By D. Michael Quinn MORMON STUDIES: THE MYSTERIES OF GODLINESS: A HIST...