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Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism . Edited by John WitteJr. and Richard C. Martin. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books1999. Pp. xviii, 423. Paper. $25.00. ISBN: 1-570-75276-1.

Sharing the Book is the "overview" volume in a massive and brilliantly orchestrated five-volume series on proselytism published as part of the Religion and Human Rights Series launched by Orbis Books in collaboration with the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. Sharing the Book presents general religious perspectives on the issue. Other volumes in the series undertake a review of religion and belief in international human rights, and more specialized analysis of the proselytism issue in Russia, Latin America and Africa—regions in which proselytism presents rather distinctive faces. Based on extensive research supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Inc. and the Ford Foundation, this series will constitute the definitive study of religious and human rights questions posed by proselytism for years to come. As its subtitle suggests, Sharing the Book focuses on religious as opposed to legal perspectives on proselytism, although the nexus with human rights remains close to the surface. John Witte notes in the preface: "Each contributor has been asked to speak candidly about the theology and practice of proselytism in the texts and traditions of a particular faith." (xiv) Articles by leading scholars and representatives of various religious traditions are grouped in four categories: sections addressing proselytism and outreach activities (or lack thereof) in Judaism, Islam, mainline Christianity and modern mission movements. Witte contends that we are living in a "Dickensian era" matching "the best of human rights protections inscribed on the books" with "some of the worst of human rights violations inflicted on the ground." (xi) In various parts of the world, "the modern human rights revolution has also brought on something of a new war for souls between