BOOK REVIEWS

Source: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 44, Number 1, March 2005 , pp. 113-122(10)

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MAKING THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FRINGE: EXOTICS, SUBVERSIVES, AND JOURNALISTS, 1955–1993. By Sean McCloud. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 256 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

FROM ANGELS TO ALIENS: TEENAGERS, THE MEDIA, AND THE SUPERNATURAL. By Lynn Schofield Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 292 pp. $29.95 cloth.

FREEING GOD'S CHILDREN: THE UNLIKELY ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS. By Allen D. Hertzke. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. xiii + 421 pp. $27.95 cloth.

PEACE AND PERSISTENCE: TRACING THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST PEACE WITNESS THROUGH THREE GENERATIONSPEACE AND PERSISTENCE: TRACING THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST PEACE WITNESS THROUGH THREE GENERATIONS. By M. J. Heisey. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. xvi + 280 pp. $45.00 cloth.

SOFT PATRIARCHS, NEW MEN: HOW CHRISTIANITY SHAPES FATHERS AND HUSBANDS. By W. Bradford Wilcox. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix + 337 pp. $62.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.

WEATHERING CHANGE: GAYS AND LESBIANS, CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES, AND EVERYDAY HOSTILITIES. By Thomas J. Linneman. New York: New York University Press, 2003. x + 266 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.

NEW AGE, A GUIDE: ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES FROM AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY TO NEXT AGE. By Daren Kemp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. $22.50 paper.

JEWISH PASSAGES: CYCLES OF JEWISH LIFE. By Harvey E. Goldberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 379 pp. $27.50 cloth.

THE FORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN ANTIOCH: A SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE SEPARATION BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. By Magnus Zetterholm. London: Routledge, 2003. xiv + 272 pp. $92.95 cloth.

Document Type: Book review

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2005.00269.x

Publication date: 2005-03-01