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empirical b sis of this view may be placed in doubt since Dupre believesthat the objective study of religion is not strictly possible . Phenomenologymust grow its own ontology . Here Dupre leans on existentialism andphilosophical phenomenology. All this introduces a worthwhile critiqueof projection themes, from Feuerbach through Freud to Fromm . In thelast chapter of this long book Dupre explores, quite perceptively, themeaning of mysticism, relating Western traditions to those of India . Thisinterest in part derives from the author's Catholicism . The major queryone is left with : How far can one sensibly explore the meaning of religiousattitudes from a philosophical standpoint? The book is somehow pre-Copernican from this angle .

N.S .

MATICS, MARION L . Entering the Path of Enlightenment. The Bodhicary-dvatdra of the Buddhist Poet Santideva . Translation with Guide . London, GeorgeAllen and Unwin Ltd ., 1972, 318 pp . &-50 -

The translation of this famous Mahayana text itself covers less than loopages, and in 8o pages of appendices ('Part Three') one might havehoped for an index. The lengthy, introductory `Guide' begins with a`Tribute' and ends with a kind of doxology, but the somewhat enthusiastictone here will no doubt be overlooked by the history of religions studentin need of a readable translation of the text with an unoppressive butscholarly apparatus .

M. P .

CASTELLI, E., La Critique de la Demythisation : Ambiguite et foi . Translatedfrom the Italian by E. Valenziani Aubier, Editions Montaigne, Paris,1 973 n .p .From 1961 to 1972 the question of demythologizing was discussed in aseries of colloquia held in Rome, organized by Professor Enrico Castelli .The themes selected and the variety of participants took the topic furtherafield than the German discussion of the 195os . Each year the papers ofthe preceding conference were published in French by the InternationalCentre for Human Studies and the Rome Institute of PhilosophicalStudies. Professor Castelli has now published in the same series a collectionof his own essays relating to the conference topics . The first section,entitled Kerygme et Histoire contains five essays, and the second, onHermeneutique et Temoignage, nine. There are four appendices . Theseessays bring a penetrating philosophical mind to bear on the issues of faithand history, theology of history, language, hermeneutics, tradition andrevelation. All the issues are left open-we are not even allowed a defini-tion of myth-but in following these intelligent reflections readers willenjoy the stimulus of some unfamiliar viewpoints .Department of Religious StudiesUniversity of Lancaster

Robert Morgan