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American Academy of Religion
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A A "pN JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN /A A A I S? ACADEMY OF RELIGION
JL jSt A1-\w December 2004, Volume 72, Issue 4
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION December 2004 Volume 72 Number 4
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Binding-Unbinding: Divided Responses of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the "Sacrifice" of Abraham's Beloved Son
Yvonne Sherwood 821
Numa Pompilius and the Idea of Civil Religion in the West Mark Silk 863
Modernity and the Early Discourse of Scientific Buddhism David L McMahan 897
Religious Identities of Buddhist Nuns: Training Precepts, Renunciant Attire, and Nomenclature in Theravada Buddhism
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Identity for and against Itself: Religion, Criticism, and Pluralization Ananda Abeysekara 973
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Rieger, Joerg, God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary Theology Mark Lewis Taylor 1064
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