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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION March 2011 Volume 79 Number 1 EDITOR’S NOTE Editor’s Note Amir Hussain To Wilfred Cantwell Smith Margaret Avison 1 4 ARTICLES The Character of “Character” in Early South Asian Religious Narratives: An Introductory Essay Brian Black and Jonathan Geen Literary Lives and a Literal Death: Yājñavalkya, Śākalya, and an Upanisadic . Death Sentence Steven E. Lindquist Fair Trade and Reversal of Fortune: Krsna and Mahāvīra in the Hindu and .. ° Jaina Traditions Jonathan Geen Compassionate Trickster: The Buddha as a Literary Character in the Narratives of Early Indian Buddhism Sara L. McClintock Traces of Śaunaka: A Literary Assessment Laurie L. Patton ´ Ambattha and Svetaketu: Literary Connections Between the Upanisads .. . and Early Buddhist Narratives Brian Black Monastic Labor: Thinking about the Work of Monks in Contemporary Theravada Communities ¯ Thomas Borchert Intolerance, Religious Violence, and Political Legitimacy in Late Antiquity H.A. Drake 6 REVIEW ESSAY New Directions in the History of American Religious Liberalism Matthew S. Hedstrom 236 BOOK REVIEWS Idema, Wilt L., Personal Salvation and Filial Piety: Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her Acolytes Stewart, Tony K., The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmrta and the