...John D. Rogers Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka . By Richard Gombrich and Gananath Obeyesekere . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1988 . xvi , 484 pp. $49.50. The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response...

... the religious nationalism emerging from the First Indochina War. The spiritual dimension of the Republic's Personalist Revolution did not involve state interference in all religious activities. Instead, it promoted religious freedom and diversity, provided that the spiritual values they propagated opposed...

... and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912 . By Atsuko Hirai . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xviii, 433 pp. ISBN: 9780674066823 (cloth). Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō . By Jun'ichi Isomae...

...David Wurfel Religious Revolution in the Philippines: Life and Church of Gregorio Aglipay, 1860–1940 . By Pedro S. de Achutegui, S.J. , and Miguel Bernad, S.J. Manila : Ateneo de Manila , 1960 . Distributed by Bookmark, Manila, xvi, 580 . Appendices, Bibliography, Indices. ₱15.00...

...Michael M. Ames Abstract This paper is intended to present in outline form a structural analysis of the total religious system of the Sinhalese of Ceylon. The Sinhalese, excluding those few who are Hindu, Christian, or Muslim, are Theravada Buddhists who also indulge in a rich array of magical...

... 1960 Changing religious practices of an untouchable caste . Economic Development and Cultural Change . 8 : 279 – 287 . Marriott McKim 1955 Little communities in an indigenous civilization . In Marriott (ed.), 1955: 171 – 222 . Marriott McKim 1959 Changing channels of cultural...

...Mac Linscott Ricketts The Faith of Other Men . By Wilfred Cantwell Smith . New York : The New American Library . June, 1965 . 128 . $.60. The Meaning and End of Religion. A New Approach to the Religious Traditions of Mankind . Wilfred Cantwell Smith . New York : The New...

...Keshav Dev Sharma Religious Consciousness . By G. S. Ghurye . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1965 . vii, 383 . n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 780 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES and Purpose [Lund: 1956] is a reliable account of ritual observances...

...S. N. Eisenstadt Abstract The problem of the relations between religious and political organizations and systems has been of long standing in the broad field of comparative historical studies and in the sociology of religion. The work of Max Weber, although more explicitly focused on the relations...

...Aziz Ahmad Akbar: The Religious Aspect . By R. Krishnamurti . Baroda : Dr. I. P. Desai, Maharaja Sayajirao , 1961 . 183 . Appendices, Index. Rs. 5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 577 Maratha independence was announced to the world...

...Paul V. Hyer The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Part II. Their Religious Life . By Louis M. J. Schram , C.I.C.M. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 47, Part 1. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society , 1957 . 164 . Index. $3.00...

...C. H. Wang The Type Index of Chinese Folktales in the Oral Tradition and Major Works of Non-Religious Chinese Literature . By Nai-tung Ting . Helsinki : Academia Scientiarum Fennica FF Communications XCIV3 No. 223, 1978 . xxiii , 247 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Addenda, Subject Index...

... to know that he was a fine fellow, a valuable contributor to American civilization, and a chap whose acquaintance one would like to make. And this is, after all, the real test of the book. Union College GEORGE H. DANTON China's religious heritage. BY Y. C. YANG. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press...

...Richard Mather Religious Trends in Modern China . By Wing-tsit Chan . New York : Columbia University Press , 1953 . xiii, 327 . Bibliography, glossary, Chinese characters, index. $4.25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 92 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY public...

...Donald R. Tuck Radhakrishnan, a Religious Biography . By Robert N. Minor . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1987 . viii , 189 pp. $34.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 660 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES tation...

...Turrell Wylie Religious Observances in Tibet: Patterns and Function . by Robert V. Ekvall . Chicago , University of Chicago Press , 1964 . xiii, 313 . Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 135 notes that most Russian...

...Richard Gombrich Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750–1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change . By Kitsiri Malalgoda . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 . xiii, 300 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Reinhold Löffler Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush . By Robert Leroy Canfield . Ann Arbor : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (Anthropological Papers, No. 50), 1973 . x, 142 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography. $3.00...

...Rajeshwari Datta Abstract The socio-religious songs composed in village Bengal by the adherents of the mystical sect known as the Bāuls are of great interest to students of folk music and poetry, but they are of no less interest to a student of the history of the religions of Bengal. In his songs...

...Richard M. Eaton Religion in South Asia: Religious Conversion and Revival Movements in South Asia in Medieval and Modern Times . Edited by G. A. Oddie . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1977 . viii, 204 pp. Appendixes, Index. $8.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...