Book Briefs Fall 2008

Books Briefs from Fall 2008.

The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies

Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.

Books in Brief September 2008

Review of books from September 2008.

Evaluating Eckhart

Review of "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

Books in Brief July 2008

Reviews of Books from July 2008.

The New Buddhists

Review of Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan by Richard Madsen.

Book Briefs Summer 2008

Review of books from Summer 2008.

We Think, Therefore We Are

Review of The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why, by Richard E. Nisbett.

Higher Powers

Review of Faith in the Halls of Power by D. Michael Lindsay and From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic edited by J. Matthew Wilson.

Books in Brief May 2008

Review of book from May 2008.

Rethinking Ritual

Review of Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen, Buddhist Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright.

Book Briefs Spring 2008

Book reviews from Spring 2008.

The Mind-Body Story

Review of The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington

Jack’s Blues

Review of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) by John Leland

Books in Brief March 2008

Review of books from March 2008.

The More Things Change

Review of After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow.

Books in Brief January 2008

Review of books from January 2008.

From OM to AH: The Spiritual Evolution of Allen Ginsberg

Review of Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics by Tony Trigilio.

Book Briefs

Alexander Gardner reviews books from Winter 2007.

The Interdependence Movement

Review of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming by Paul Hawken.