THREE REVIEWS OF INTEREST in the current issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion online. The theme of the issue, incidentally, is "Religion and Empire," although the reviews are not thematic.

Jason David BeDuhn: The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual
Reviewed by Horace Jeffery Hodges


Tod Linafelt: Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book
Reviewed by Francis Landy


Edmondo Lupieri: The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics
Reviewed by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley