PB February 2015248 Prabuddha Bharata54 The Western Construction of Religion Daniel Dubuisson. Trans. William Sayers. Th e John Hopkins University Press. 2003. xii + 244 pp. $ 29. pb. isbn 9780801887567. For a Westerner usually religion is a choice, for most from the East, it is life itself. Th e objectifi cation of religion led the West to venture into its scientifi c study, like the study of any other discipline like engineering. Th e subjectivity of religion led the East to focus more on the precepts being lived, rather than being restricted to intellectual analysis. With the coming together of nations and blurring of boundaries, the followers of diff erent religions started interacting. To the Westerner, most of the religious wisdom of the East was cryptic and inaccessible, in a language and context far removed. Th is led to the imposing of Western notions of religion on the East. Th is book, a translation of the French original, attempts to remove wrong understandings of non-Western concepts of religion and also tries to provide a reassessment of the history of religion as understood in the West. Th e author charts out a path to a better understanding of world religions by pointing out that every religion has its own sociological and anthropological basis and that all 'cultures are thereby similar, and likewise, all are diff erent' (201). He stresses that all human cultural and religious worlds are nothing but diff erent worlds made indispensable and in the human imagination, each such world has its rightful place. PB Empower Yourself J P Vaswani Gita Publishing House, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, 10, Sadhu Vaswani Path, Pune 411 001. Website: www. dadavaswanibooks.org. 192 pp. ` 150. pb. isbn 9789380743677. The Endless Quest J P Vaswani Gita Publishing House. 136 pp. ` 195. pb. isbn 9789380743837. Stay Connected J P Vaswani Gita Publishing House. 128 pp. ` 195. pb. isbn 9789380743820. Value of Brahmacharya Swami Tathagatananda Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore. 38 pp. ` 20. pb. isbn 9788178835747. Universal Prayers for Youth Compiled and Ed. by Swami Atmashraddhananda Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore. 44 pp. ` 25. pb. isbn 9788178835662. Living Imprints of Indian Culture Compiled and Ed. by Swami Atmashraddhananda Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore. 102 pp.  30. pb. isbn 9788178835778. BooKs RECEiVED