Short review and book note

David Dean Shulman, Tamil temple myths: Sacrifice and divine marriage in the South Indian Saiva tradition, Princeton University Press 1980. 472 pp. £16.70Hubert Bucher, Spirits and power, an analysis of shona cosmology, Cape Town, Oxford University Press 1981. 231pp. £8.75H. Heissig, The religions of Mongolia, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1980. £7.50Roy C. Amore and Larry D. Shinn, Lustful maidens