TY - JOUR
AU - Gvosdev, Nikolas K.
AB - BOOK REVIEW 395 dox position of the Eucharist was in faet included in the general article on "Communion" and that the Orthodox perspective on sainthood was discussed alongside Catholic and Protestant coneepts, and that mention was made that the Orthodox Church, along with other Christian groups, has eanonized its own group of "Ameriean" saints--a faet that is not often known in general cireles. Certainly, these are minor issues--T'ien Hou is deseribed as the "Queen of Heaven" in the article on Chinese-Ameriean religions while the term is translated as "empress of Heaven" in the seetion on Taoism--but over- all there is a high degree of cross-referencing between the articles that helps the reader track the thread of a particular issue throughout the entire work. As with any referente work, there is going to be tension between providing detailed deseriptions and meeting space requirements. Some may lament the absenee of people they feel have been influential in the development of Amer- iean religious life from the personal biographical entries (which provide a di- verse spectrum from Elijah Mohammed to Billy Graham). In some eases, more details would have been welcome, sueh as a deseription of eontemporary Gnostic eommunities to elose out 
TI - UFO Cults and the New Millennium. By William M. Alnor, Millenniums, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. Edited by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer and The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America. By Daniel Wojcik
JF - Journal of Church and State
DO - 10.1093/jcs/42.2.395
DA - 2000-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/ufo-cults-and-the-new-millennium-by-william-m-alnor-millenniums-N0R38MahwR
SP - 395
EP - 397
VL - 42
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -