============================================================================== LISTS IN REVIEW - A Supplement to The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS Volume 1.036 LIR 1 - 1992 ISSN 1188-5734 ============================================================================== This is the first issue of LIR. Since LIR is very much a work in progress, any comments or suggestions concerning the format or content are welcome. Moreover, if you have a favorite list that you would like to volunteer to monitor for LIR, please contact me and I will provide any assistance I can. LIR Editor: Michael T. Bradley, Jr. Department of Religion Columbia University Internet: mtb3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu S-Mail: P.O. Drawer C, Blacksburg, VA 24063 USA Voice: (703) 951-3253 Lists Reviewed in this Issue: FEMREL-L OT-HEBREW RELIGION Using LISTSERV: To find out what files or logbooks (monthly records of list conversation) exist on a list's fileserver, send the following command interactively or as an email message: INDEX listname (where listname is the name of the list) This command must be send to LISTSERV@node - here node indicates the address of the list. If you wanted to find out what files are on the CONTENTS fileserver, you would send the following command to LISTSERV@UOTTAWA or LISTSERV@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA INDEX CONTENTS To retrieve a file from a LISTSERV fileserver, identify the name of the file or logbook from the list's filelist (which the above command would have sent to you) and then send the following command (remember that a LISTSERV file will always have two names, neither of which can be more than eight characters long): GET file name (where file name is the two-part name of the file you want) This command must also be send to LISTSERV@node - where node is the address of the list. So to retrieve the file METHOD BIBLIO from the list CONTENTS you would send the command GET METHOD BIBLIO as a mail message to LISTSERV@Uottawa (or @Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA). If you require assistance in retrieving list files or logbooks please contact your local computing services or retrieve the following help file LISTSERV MEMO from LISTSERV@bitnic and BITNET USERHELP from LISTSERV@marist. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List: FEMREL-L (Open discussion of women, religion and feminist theology) Address: FEMREL-L@UMCVMB.BITNET Period Covered: March 8 - May 8, 1992 To subscribe to FEMREL-L, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET: SUBSCRIBE FEMREL-L Your Name TOPICS COVERED: bat mitzvahs Beltane Book of J bris cliterodectomy in Muslim countries croning ceremonies death dualism and duality dualism and embodiment Eostre faith and practice folk/ethnic religious practices Genesis and process theology goddess worship Hildegard von Bingen images of god/ess is Judaism sexist? Jesus' sisters Jewish lesbians Jewish funeral practices John 13 lesbigay theology liberal religion love words meaning of "seminal" meditation during homely tasks midrash minyan for women Mormonism, Sonia Johnson and "Mother in Heaven" pantheism vs. panentheism prayers, thoughts and energies Roman Catholic woman priests in Eastern Europe significance of names chosen in Wicca slavic paganism subjection of women in Christianity trinity and gender -- Monitored by LIR Assitant Editor: Elizabeth M. Bounds, Virginia Tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- List: OT-HEBREW Address: OT-HEBREW@VIRGINIA Period Covered: April 1-30, 1992 To subscribe to OT-HEBREW, send the following e-mail message to OT-HEBREW-REQUEST@VIRGINIA.EDU: SUBSCRIBE OT-HEBREW Your Name TOPICS COVERED: 2d pers fem in -y Gen 12:11, Jud 7:5 Re: Speiser Samaritan Pentatuech -- Monitored by LIR Assitant Editor: R. Glenn Wooden, St. Andrews, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ List: RELIGION Address: RELIGION@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU Period Covered: April 1- 30, 1992 To subscribe to RELIGION, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@HARVARDA: SUBSCRIBE RELIGION Your Name TOPICS COVERED: Lecture series in the academic study of religion at the University of Tuebingen for the summer semester 1992. Query concerning Mac Coptic Font. New list for full text reviews in Religious Studies: REVIEW-L. New syllabus: "Religion and Nature." New syllabi: "Sufi Mystic Jalalludin Rumi," "Zen Buddhism," and, "Buddhism in America." Query regarding research on faith development in a cross-cultural perspective. New syllabus: "Comparative Religion in the Classroom." Query regarding resources for teaching of Buddhist ethics. Annual meeting of the American Society for the Study of Religion hosted by the CSWR at Harvard. Response to previous query re Buddhist ethics: Gunapala Dharmasiri, _Fundamentals of Buddhist Ethics_ (Antioch, CA: Golden Leaves, 1989). Fourth Conference on World Spirituality to be held June 15-19, 1992 at the East-West Center in Honolulu. New list on Orthodox Churches: EOCHR@QueensU.CA. Query regarding the ethics of Taoism. Query regarding lists which cover the Presbyterian Church. -- Monitored by LIR Editor: Michael T. Bradley, Jr., Columbia University ============================================================================== The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS is an electronic journal that disseminates table of contents, abstracts, reviews and ordering information on new and recent print and electronic publications of relevance to religious studies. The CONTENTS Project also electronically publishes articles, manuscripts, thesis, dissertations, software reviews and other items of interest to religious studies scholars and students. Electronic subscriptions are free; to subscribe, send a mail message to Listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca with the text: SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name. Inquires regarding the CONTENTS project should be sent to the project director: Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa BITNET: 441495@Uottawa Internet: 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA S-mail: 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 CANADA Voice: (613) 237-2052 FAX: (613) 564-6641)