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HANS DIETER BETZ, DON S. BROWNING, BERND JANOWSKI, and EBERHARD JÜNGEL (eds.), Religion Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion, Volume 2, Bia-Chr (translation ed. David E. Orion; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007). Pp. cxii + 664. $188.
This is the second of a projected eleven-volume (plus index) translation of the fourth edition of Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1957-65) - an encyclopedia that is arguably one of the most well respected reference works of the past century. The English-language version, Religion Past and Present (RPP), which is scheduled for completion in 2012, will boast contributions from over three thousand religion scholars, who will have contributed more than eight million words distributed among fifteen thousand entries. There will be several new articles added - because either they are of special interest to the English-speaking world, or they update the German edition in some way - and other entries will be excluded that might be pertinent to only a German audience. The second volume, which is the subject of this review, includes more than 750 entries, several of which will be of interest to the readers of this...