Church History

Papers
(The median citation count of Church History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition. Edited by Line Cecilie Engh. Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 35
Oliver Hart & the Rise of Baptist America. By Eric C. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi + 337 pp. $99.00 cloth.3
Auditing Revival: George Whitefield and Public Accounting in Colonial America2
The Sacred and the Sinister: Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic. Edited by David J. Collins. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. 292 pp. $74.95 hardcover.2
Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers. By Charles McCrary. New Studies in Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp. $95.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.1
Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet. By Bruce Gordon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xviii + 349 pp. $32.50 hardcover.1
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. By Jennifer Scheper Hughes. New York: New York University Press, 2021. xviii + 245 pp. $35.00 cloth.1
Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution. By David Neal Greenwood. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. xii + 177 pp. $55.00 cloth.1
Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400–1550): Reading, Worshipping, and Connecting through the Continuum of Sacred and Secular. Edited by Suzan Folkerts. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021. 21
Africa in the Global Church?1
Martyrdom, Sacrificial Libation, and the Eucharist of Ignatius of Antioch. By Frederick C. Klawiter. Lanham: Lexington/Fortress, 2022. x + 181 pp. $39.99 paper; $105.00 hardback; $38.00 ebook.1
The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe. By Lucia Travaini. Religion and Money in the Middle Ages. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022. xxi + 286 pp, 76 b/w ills. $170.00 clot1
Saving the Church of England: John Edwards (1637–1716) as Dissenting Conformer. By Daniel C. Norman. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2022. xii + 292 pp. $58.00 hardcover; $38.00 paper.1
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy. By James Morton. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. pp. I–XXIV + 312.1
Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing. By J. M. F. Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. viii + 41
Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times. Edited by Katharina Heyden and Maria Lissek. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. ix + 593 pp. €154.00 cloth.0
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola. By Cécile Fromont. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xvii + 245 pp.0
Asserting Protestant Legitimacy in a Catholic Context: Rhetorical Strategies of the Confederação Evangélica do Brasil, 1930s–1950s0
A People's Reformation: Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish. By Lucy Moffatt Kaufman. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. xxi + 346 pp. Paperback. $40.00.0
Vatican II After Sixty Years: Developments and Expectations Prior to the Council. Edited by Mathijs Lamberigts, Antonia Pizzey, and Karim Schelkens. Brepols Vatican II Series, Vol 1. Turnhout, Belgium0
World Christianity: Methodological Considerations. Edited by Martha Fredericks and Dorottya Nagy. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 315 pp. $68.00 hardback.0
Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands: The East-European Connection. By Ioana Feodorov. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. xxiv + 441 pp. 64 illustrations. $101.99 hardcover.0
Copts in Modernity: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium of Coptic Studies, Melbourne, 13–16 July 2018. Edited by Lisa Agaiby, Mark N. Swanson, and Nelly van Doorn-Harder. Texts a0
The Politics of Media Format: Printing Poor Sarah During the Removal Crisis in Cherokee Nation0
Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity. Edited by Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis. Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture. Boston: Brill, 20
The Christology of Erasmus. Christ, Humanity, and Peace. By Terence J. Martin. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2024. 302 pp.0
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Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times. Edited by Mariam F. Ayard. New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2024. xvii + 328 pp. $ 64.95 hardback, $63.99 PDF.0
John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man. By Daryl R. Ireland. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2020. xx + 248 pp. $49.99 hardcover.0
A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini. Edited by Jacques Dalarun, Sean L. Field, and Valerio Cappozzo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 192 pp. $99.95 ha0
“For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country. By William B. Hart. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 288 pp, 6 b&w illustrations. $90.0
Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s–1920s. By Geraldine Vaughan. Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 20220
Divine Rage: Malcolm X's Challenge to Christians. By Marjorie Corbman. New York: Orbis Books, 2023. ix + 269 pp. $29.00 paper.0
The Murder Death of Pang Hwa-il: Erasing American Violence, Producing Christian Allies During the Korean War0
Nicolaus Mameranus: Poetry and Politics at the Court of Mary Tudor. By Matthew Tibble. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 220. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2000. Xii + 389pp. €157 cloth.0
Sums Theological: Doing Theology with the London Bills of Mortality, 1603–16660
Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World. By Gordon L. Heath. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. x + 261 pp. $110 cloth; $35 eBook.0
Unexplained Revolutions: The Origins and Ends of Latin American Catholic Upheaval0
Une société chrétienne. Naples, Amalfi, Gaète (VIe–XIIe siècle). By Éric Thoreau-Girault. Monographies du Centre de Recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance-Collège de Fra0
The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity. By Françoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debié. Translated by Jeffrey Haines. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2023. xvi + 285 pp. $350
A New Jerusalem: Flavius Josephus in Early America0
Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology. By Karin Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xviii + 443 pp.; many black-and-white figures. $120.00, hard0
The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism. Edited by Jason E. Vickers and Jennifer Woodruff Tait. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xii + 523 pp. $39.99 paper.0
Local Patterns of Relic Veneration in Late Antiquity: Reassessing Alleged Distinctions between Greek and Roman Customs0
Nachtrichten aus der Politik: Die Lageberichte Hermann Kunsts für den Rat der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland 1951–1977. By Dagmar Pöpping. Arbeiten zur Kitchlichen Zeitgeschichte, Reihe A: Quelle0
Before and Beyond the “Big Society”: John Milbank and the Church of England’s Approach to Welfare. By Joseph Forde. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2022. x + 312 pp. £82.00 hardback; £27.50 paper.0
The Life of Count Charles of Flanders, The Life of Lord John, Bishop of Thérouanne, and Related Works. By Walter, Archdeacon of Thérouanne. Translated by Jeff Rider. Corpus Christianorum in Tra0
Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation. By Alex Fogleman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 256 pp. $110.00 hardcover.0
Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education. By Michael W. Champion. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022. ix + 261. $105.00 hardcover.0
Calvin on the Death of Christ: A Word for the World. By Paul A. Hartog. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2023. xiv + 200. £20.00 paper.0
Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, vol. 180. Edited by Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. xii0
Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity. Edited by Jitse H. F. Dijkstra and Christian R. Raschle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 446 pp. $37.0
Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond. By Reyhan Durmaz. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. xi + 261 pp. $95.00 har0
Suffering, Not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages. By Benjamin Wheaton. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022. 264 pp. $26.99 paper.0
Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa. By Jean Luc Enyegue SJ. Religion in Transforming Africa. Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2022. xix + 299 pp. $0
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II. By G. Kurt Piehler. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xv + 393 pp. $65.00 cloth, eBook.0
Waldensianism Before Waldo: The Myth of Apostolic Proto-Protestantism in Antebellum American Anti-Catholicism0
American Catholicism Transformed: From the Cold War Through the Council. By Joseph P. Chinnici. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 461 pp. $45.00 hardcover.0
Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial. By Jeremy Schipper. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. xxxiv + 181 pp. 26.95 cloth.0
Gender, Knighthood, and Spiritual Imagination in Henry Suso's Life of the Servant0
The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty. By Mark Valeri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xiii + 292 pp. $29.95 cloth.0
God's Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God. By Christoph Markschies. Translated by Alexander Johannes Edmonds. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2019, xvi + 616 pp. $64.99 cloth.0
Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, a Life on the Catholic Left. By William Marling. New York: New York University Press, 2022. x + 319 pp. $45 cloth.0
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics. By Sarah Shortall. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 352 pp. $49.95 hardcover.0
Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches. By Paul Joshua. Edited by Joel A. Carpenter. Studies in World Christianity. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2022. xiv + 249 pp. $54.99 cloth.0
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith. By Louis Markos. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2021. 234 pp. $28.00 paper.0
Matthew Spinka, Howard Kaminsky, and the Medieval Hussites. By Thomas Fudge. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 352 pages, $103.91.0
In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II. By Leah Mickens. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 205 pp. $89.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.0
The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement. By Travis E. Ables. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. ix + 260 pp. $35.00 paper.0
The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite. By Mark Edwards, Dimitrios Pallis, and Georgios Steiris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii-729 pp. $148.35 cloth.0
Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context by Jennifer C. Snow. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 360 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-759894-844.0
The Church-Union of the Armenians in Transylvania (1685–1715). By Kornél Nagy. Refo500 Academic Studies 81. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. 251 pp. $115.00 cloth.0
The Politics of Sanctity: Figurative Sculpture at Selles-sur-Cher. By Deborah Kahn. Vistas: New Scholarship on Sculpture 1250–1780. London/Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers/Brepols, 2020. 270
The Life of St Brendan and His Prayer. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Gordon Barthos. Mediaeval Sources in Translation 62. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2024. Xii +0
Making a Play for God: The Sacre Rappresentazioni of Renaissance Florence. By Nerida Newbigin. 2 volumes, continuously paginated. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2021. vii–xxx0
Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell About Heaven and Hell. By Blair Davis. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024. vii + 303 pp. $72.95 cloth; $39.95 paper.0
Petition and Performance in Ancient Rome: The Apologies of Justin Martyr. By Brandon Cline. Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics 75. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press. xv + 276 pp. $114.0
Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945–1980. By John Maiden. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 261. £99.00 hardback.0
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America. By Theresa Keeley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ix + 334 pp. $49.95 cloth, $32.99 eBook.0
American Catholic Schools in the Twentieth Century: Encounters with Public Education Policies, Practices, and Reforms. By Ann Marie Ryan. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. xiv + 180 pp. $70.00 c0
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Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision. By Diane Winston. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 256 pp, $35.00 cloth.0
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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Volume 3, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy, and Volume 4, Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond, edited by Mark DelCogliano. Cambridge,0
Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom. By Spencer W. McBride. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 269 pages. $29.95 hardcover.0
Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law – 1200 to 1700. By Gijs Kruijtzer. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xiv + 344. Hardcover. $65.99.0
The End of Catholic Mexico (1855–1861): Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Reforma. By David Gilbert. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2024. x + 303 pp. $99.95 cloth; $34.95 paper.0
John Paget of Amsterdam: Champion of English Presbyterianism-in-Exile0
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. By Kathryn Gin Lum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
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The Quest to Save the Old Testament: Mathematics, Hieroglyphics, and Providence in Enlightenment England. By David Ney. Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 0
Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 215 pp. $20
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds. By Mary Dunn. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. xii + 211 pp. $32 cloth.0
Printing, Publics, and Pudding: Charles Chauncy's Universal Salvation and the Material Transformation of New England Orthodoxy0
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: Penguin Press, 2021. xxiv + 278 pp. $ 21.24 cloth; $20.00 paper. - The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This I0
Desecularizing the Christian Past: Beyond R. A. Markus and the Religious-Secular Divide. By Enrico Beltramini. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 244 pp. €136.00 hardcover.0
Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum Americ. By Jordan T. Watkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xxii + 376 pp. $59.99 hardco0
The Other Side of Empire: Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain. By Andrew Devereux. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 261 pp. $49.95 cloth.0
An Enslaver's Guide to Slavery Reform: William Dunlop's 1690 Proposals to Christianize Slaves in the British Atlantic0
Shiʿite Rulers, Sunni Rivals, and Christians in Between: Muslim-Christian Relations in Fāṭimid Palestine and Egypt. By Steven Gertz. Islamic History and Thought 32. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 20230
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Empire and Religion in the Roman World. Edited by Harriet I. Flower. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 277 pp. $99.99; paperback $32.99.0
The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism. By David de Boer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. £70.00.0
The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto. By Bruce Douville. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 300 pp. Can$37.95 paper.0
Worshipping a Crucified Man: Christians, Graeco-Romans and Scripture in the Second Century. By Jeremy Hudson. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. Ltd, 2021. xi + 275 pp. £70 cloth, £22.50 paper.0
Readers and Hearers of the Word: The Cantillation of Scripture in the Middle Ages. By Joseph Dyer. Ritus et artes 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 268 pp. €85 hardback.0
Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence: The Diaries of the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy, 1745–1755. Edited by Katherine M. Faull. Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies. University 0
Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1750–1776. By Gary L. Steward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 232 pp. $74.00 cloth.0
Apokalyptische Gegenwarten: Endzeitdenken reformatorischer Bewegungen zwischen Exegese, Kirchenkritik und Vision. By Catherine Feik. Cultural History of Apocalyptic Thought/Kulturgeschichte der Apokal0
Learning the Language of Scripture: Origen, Wisdom, and the Logic of Interpretation. By Mark Randall James. Studies in Systematic Theology 24. Leiden: Brill, 2021. vii + 339 pp. $68.00 paper; $127.00 0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940. By Margaret Chowning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xiii + 362 pp. $45.00 cloth.0
The Synod of Dordt: Historical, Theological, and Experiential Perspectives. Edited by Joel R. Beeke and Martin I. Klauber. Academic Studies 68. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. 231 pp. €650
Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society. By Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 240 pp. Cloth: $89. Paper: $30.0
The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community. By Randolph Paul Runyon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021. ix + 249 pp.0
Pope Benedict XII (1334–1342): The Guardian of Orthodoxy. Edited by Irene Bueno. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 277 pp. $127.00 cloth.0
The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past. By Paul J. Gutacker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. x + 247 pp. $29.95 paper.0
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism. By Lerone A. Martin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xii + 340 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
Walter and Ingrid Trobisch and the Globalization of Modern, Christian Sexual Ethics. By Anneke H. Stasson. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2021. vii + 130 pp. $39.00 h0
Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism. Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin. Edited by Andrei Orlov. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 160. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xx + 387 pp. €142,00 / $171.00
Consciences and the Reformation: Scruples over Oaths and Confessions in the Era of Calvin and His Contemporaries. By Timothy R. Scheuers. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford Unive0
Darkness: The Conversion of Anglican Armidale, 1960—2019. By Thomas A. Fudge. Vancouver: St John University Press, 2024. xxv +837 pp. A$84.95 cloth.0
Hiberno-Latin Saints’ ‘Lives’ in the Seventh Century: Writing Early Ireland. By John Higgins. Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces. De Gruyter, 2024. xiv + 203 pp. $121.99 hardcover.0
Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany Albert of Diessen's Mirror of Priests. By Deeana Copeland Klepper. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. xiv + 215 pp. $54.95 cloth; $0
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought. Edited by Lydia Schumacher. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021 [Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der Mittelalterlichen Theologie un0
Was glaubten die Deutschen zwischen 1933 und 1945? Religion und Politik im Nationalsozialismus. Edited by Olaf Blaschke and Thomas Großbölting. Schriftenreihe “Religion und Moderne” 18. Frankfurt a. M0
Remembering Antônia Teixeira: A Story of Missions, Violence, and Institutional Hypocrisy. By Mikeal C. Parsons and João B. Chaves. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023. xv + 224 pp. $26.99 0
Rethinking Church–State Relations in Seventeenth-Century Philippines: The Guerrero-Hurtado de Corcuera and Pardo-Audiencia Controversies0
A Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834–1918. By Michael C. McKenzie. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xviii + 330 pp. $65.00.0
The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era. By Jesse Curtis. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 291 pp. $32.00 paperback.0
Engaging the Church Fathers in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism: The Patristic Legacy of the Scuola Romana. By Joseph Carola. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic Press, 2023. xiv + 520 pp. $54.95.0
Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond. Edited by Antonio E. Felle and Bryan Ward-Perkins. Contextualizing the Sacred 11. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021. xx + 190 pp. €95.00 pa0
A Church's Broken Heart: Mason-Dixon Methodism. By Russell E. Richey. Nashville: New Room Books, 2021. xxxi + 222 pp. $39.95 paper.0
Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900. By John L. Kater. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. vii + 323 pp. $130 hardback; $42.99 paper.0
Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice0
Adam Boreel (1602–1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity. By Francesco Quatrini. Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture, 81. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021. xv + 423 pp0
Conquering the Idols: English Iconoclasm in Ireland, 1649–16600
Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, and the Filioque. By Chungman Lee. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 169. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiii + 366. $162.00 cloth.0
The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law. Edited by Anders Winroth and John C. Wei. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xx + 617 pp. $180.00 hardcover0
Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity. By Julia Kelto Lillis. Christianity in Late Antiquity 13. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. xvi + 273 pp. $95.00.0
Developing the Countryside: Agricultural Missions, K. L. Butterfield, and Rural Reconstruction in Asia, 1920–500
The Revival of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the Victorian Church of Scotland. By Andrew Michael Jones. Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Pre0
Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960): A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America. By Miguel De Asúa. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 365 pages. $118 hardcover.0
Negotiating Liturgical Obligations in Late Medieval Dominican Convents0
Don Alonso de Aragón, un príncipe con Mitra. By Jaime Elipe, Zaragoza: Collecion de Letras. Institución Fernando el Católico, 2022. ISBN: 978-8499116655.0
Women, Preachers, Methodists: Papers from Two Conferences held in 2019, the 350th Anniversary of Susanna Wesley's Birth. Edited by John Lenton, Clive Murray Norris, and Linda A. Ryan. Oxford: Oxford C0
Delivery and Deliverance: Religious Experiences of Childbirth in Eighteenth-Century America0
Wisdom's Journey. Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in Medieval England, 1350–1650. By Steven Rozenski. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. xii + 330 pp.0
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The Theology of the Huguenot Refuge: From the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the Edict of Versailles. Edited by Martin I. Klauber. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Reformation Heritage Books, 2020. viii + 30
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity. Edited by Eugen J. Pentiuc. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvi +687 pp. $150.00 cloth.0
Experiencing Heathen and Its Publics0
Christianity and the Orthodox Church in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe: Historical Insights for Current Religious Realities0
Fiction, Memory and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830–1270. By John B. Wickstrom. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xiv + 388 pp. EUR 130,79 print; EUR 96,29 eBook.0
Missionaries in Persia: Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism. By Christian Windler. Translated from the German by Pamela E. Selwyn. London: I.B. Tauris, 2024. xiv + 392 pp. $10
Encountering the Bible from Subaltern Sources0
The Rise of Newport’s Catholics: From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age Leaders. By John F. Quinn. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Xii + 311 pp. $32.95 US paper.0
Church and People in Interregnum Britain. Edited by Fiona McCall. RHS New Historical Perspectives. London: University of London Press, 2021. xvi + 290 pp. $55.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.0
Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian Nationalism and Racism. Edited by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. vi + 302 pp. $35.00 0
The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power. By Jennifer Awes Freeman. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. xvii + 187 pp. $44.99 hardcover.0
A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm. Edited by Mike Humphreys. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 99. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021. xviii + 630 pp.0
England and the Papacy in the EarlyMiddle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680–1073. By Benjamin Savill. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xvi + 330
Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States: Historical Studies. Edited by David J. Endres. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023.0
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China. Edited by K. K. Yeo. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xxii + 878 pp. $175.00 cloth.0
Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast. By Ryan Carr. New York: Columbia UP, 2023. xv + 330 pp. $140.00 cloth; $35.00 paper.0
African American Readings of Paul: Reception, Resistance and Transformation. By Lisa M. Bowens. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B, Eerdmans, 2020. xix + 309 pp. $40.00 hardcover.0
Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons in Politics, Law and Rights. Edited by Leopoldo J. Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno. Jesuit Studies 36. Leiden and0
Roundtable on Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023)0
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler. By David I. Kertzer. New York: Random House, 2022. xxxvii + 621 pp. $37.50 hardcover.0
A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church during the Reign of Alfonso VIII. By Kyle C. Lincoln. Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755 8. University Park, PA: Pennsylvan0
The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431–451. By Mark S. Smith. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. 256 pp. $85.00 hardback.0
Migration and the Making of Global Christianity. By Jehu J. Hanciles. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021. 479 pp. $45.00 cloth.0
Petrus Canisius zwischen alten Traditionen und neuen Zeiten: Innsbrucker Petrus-Canisius-Tagung 2021. Edited by Mathias Moosbrugger. Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte 179. Münster: Aschendo0
Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon. By John A. Rice. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. xx + 300 pp. 73 color plates. $65.00 cloth.0
Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain. By Cesar D. Favila. New York: Oxford Univerity Press, 2023. 360 pp.0
Sting and Religion: The Catholic-Shaped Imagination of a Rock Icon. By Evyatar Marienberg. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2021. ix + 215 pp. $29.00 paper.0
Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517. By Wolfgang P. Müller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. v + 270 pp. $99.99 hardcover.0
Mobilizing the Spiritual Resources of the Nation: The 1918 United War Work Campaign0
Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period. By Ivana Čapeta Rakić and Giuseppe Capriotti. Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the Worl0
Fulfilling Prophecies on China's Ethnic Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Peripheral Peoples’ Encounter with Christianity in the Twentieth Century0
A Cotton Mather Reader. Edited with an Introduction by Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth P. Minkema. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. Xxxvi + 392 pp. $25.00 paperback, $80.00 hardcover.0
Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories. Edited by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson. North American Religions. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 384 pp. $99.00 cloth; $40.00 pape0
Good Government and Church Order: Essays on the Role of Secular Authority in the German Reformation. By James M. Estes. Essays and Studies 53. Toronto: CRRS Publications, 2022. 326 pp. $49.95 CAD pape0
The Demise of Norse Religion: Dismantling and Defending the Old Order in Viking Age Scandinavia. By Olof Sundqvist. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. viii + 418 pp. $109.99 cloth; Open Access.0
Hong Kong's Last English Bishop: The Life and Times of John Gilbert Hindley Baker. By Philip L. Wickeri. Sheng Kung Kui: Historical Studies of Anglican Christianity in China Series. Hong Kong: Hong Ko0
The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation. By Aleksander Pluskowski. Medieval Lives, 10. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. 214 pp. $25.00 cloth.0
Later Platonists and Their Heirs Among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Edited by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Ken Parry. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume 27. Leiden: Brill, 20230
A Shrine to Moses: A Reappraisal of the Mount Nebo Monastic Complex Between Byzantium and Islam. By Davide Bianchi. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press, 2021. 240 pp. 46 color & b/w plates, 0
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology. Edited by Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, and Charles M. Stang. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xvi0
Evangelical “Others” in Ulster, 1859–1912: Social Profile, Unionist Politics, and “Fundamentalism”0
Protestant Liberty: Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828–1878. By James M. Forbes. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 94. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 20220
In Defence of Faith, Againt the Manichaeans. Critical Edition and Historical, Literary & Theological Study of the Treatise Adversus Manichaeos Attributed to Evodius of Uzalis. By Aäron Vans0
Red Pope: A Biography of Cardinal Willem van Rossum c.ss.r (1854–1932). By Vefie Poels. Nijmegen: Radboud University Press, 2023. 667 pp. €29.95 paper.0
Stubborn Entanglements0
Picts and Britons in the Early Medieval Irish Church: Travels West Over the Storm-Swelled Sea. By Oisín Plumb. The North Atlantic World: Land and Sea as Cultural Space 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 202 0
Handmaids of the Apocalypse: Queen Gerberga, Empress Adelaide, and the Ottonian Tenth Century0
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Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism: The Protestant Discovery of Tradition. By Celestina Savonius-Wroth. Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000. London, UK: Palgrave0
Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment. By Bryan A. Banks. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. xviii + 195 pp. $140.55 cloth.0
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond: Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging. By Lindsay J. Starkey. Environmental Humanities in P0
Constructing Mission History: Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity. By Stanley H. Skreslet Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023. xi +462 pp. $39.00 paper.0
Christianity in Germany 1550–1850: Confessionalization – Enlightenment – Pluralization. Two Volumes. By Andreas Holzem. Schöningh: Brill, 2023. xviii + 1600 pp. $258.00 cloth.0
Envisioning the Christian Society: Niels Hemmingsen (1513–1600) and the Ordering of Sixteenth-Century Denmark. By Mattias Skat Sommer. Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation 116. Tübingen: Mohr Sieb0
Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism. Edited by James Eglinton and George Harinck. Studies in Reformed Theology 47. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2023. xi + 294 pp. €57.24 paperback.0
Piers Plowman: The A Version. Translated by Michael Calabrese. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. xlvii + 160 pp. $34.95 paperback.0
Krankheit und ihre Behandlung: Studien zu Sophronios von Jerusalems Wundern der Heiligen Kyros und Johannes. By Wolfgang Häfele. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christenum 118. Tubingen: Mohr S0
Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism. By Terryl L. Givens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2021. xiv + 330 pp. $34.95 cloth.0
Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism. Edited by Andreea Badea, Bruno Boute, Marco Cavarzere, and Steven Vanden Broecke. Scientiae Studies 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $10
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Teaching Anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American Postwar Conservatism. By Hubert Villeneuve. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. xiv + 461 pp. $49.95 (Canadian) cloth; $49.95 (Canadian) 0
Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350–1570). Bridging the Historiographical Divides. By Élise Boillet and Ian Johnson. New Communities of Interpretation, vol. 0
Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia. By Matthew Bryan Gillis. Renovatio – Studies in the Carolingian World, 1. Budapest: Trivent, 2021. 158 pp. €79.00 hardcover; €37.00 paperbac0
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Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000. By Martha Rampton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. x + 465 pp. $65.00 cloth.0
Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule. By Christina Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 216 pp. $74.00 hardcover.0
Claiming the Mantle of Cyril: Cyril of Alexandria and the Road to Chalcedon. By Patrick T. R. Gray. Late Antique History and Religion 24. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. xiv + 306 pp. €95.00 hardcover.0
Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life. By Anthony Bale. London: Reaktion Books, 2021. 248 pp.0
Jewish Christians in Puritan England. By Aidan Cottrell-Boyce. Cambridge, UK: James Clark and Company, 2021. 288 pp. $39.00 paper.0
A Companion to the English Dominican Province from Its Beginnings to the Reformation. Edited by Eleanor J. Giraud and J. Cornelia Linde. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 97. Leiden, Nethe0
Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard's Church in Cambridge, 1638–1649: Heroic Souls. By Lori Rogers-Stokes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. xxi + 190 pp. $54.99 hardcover.0
The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief. By Joseph P. Laycock and Eric Harrelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. vii + 304 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
L'Image miraculeuse dans le christianisme occidental Moyen Âge – Temps modernes. Edited by Nicolas Balzamo and Estelle Leutrat. Tours, France: Presses Universitaires Francois-Rabelais, 2020. 278 pp. €0
Evangelische Kirchen im Nationalsozialismus: Kollektivbiografische Untersuchung der schleswig-holsteinischen Pastorenschaft (Three Volumes). By Helge-Fabien Hertz. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.0
In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Reformation Bible. By David H. Price. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xxii + 411 pp. $99.00 cloth.0
The Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734–1737: From Herrnhut to Savannah. Edited by Achim Kopp and John Thomas Scott. Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Bethleh0
“Written for Our Discipline and Use”: The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation. Edited by Agnethe Siquans. Studien zur antiken Schriftauslegung / Studie0
Almsgiving as the Essential Virtue: A Study of the Homilies of John Chrysostom. By Becky Walker. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 183. Leiden: Brill, 2023. ix + 206 pp. $122.00 cloth.0
Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography. Edited by Alex Mallett. Brepols: Turnhout, 2020. 351 pp. €84.00, hardcover.0
For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790–1861. By Pamela Voekel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xv + 422 pp. $29.99 paper.0
Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians. Arabic Text, English Translation and Commentary. By Giovanni Mandolino. Eastern Christian Texts 1. Leiden: Brill, 0
Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelian Tradition: A Philosophical and Theological Survey. Edited by Emmanuele Vimercati and Valentina Zaffino. Veröffentilichungen des Grabmann-Institutes Erforschung de0
Trust in the Catholic Reformation: Genoa 1594–1664. By Thérèse Peeters. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 231. Leiden: Brill, 2022. ix + 337 pp. €114.48 hardback; €132.84 e-book.0
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. By Darren Dochuk. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 688 pp. $35.00 hardcover.0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne. By Sam Ottewill-Soulsby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 363 pp. $39.95.0
The Gnostic Trilogy. By Evagrius of Pontus. Translated and annotated by Robin Darling Young, Joel Kalvesmaki, Columba Stewart, Charles Stang, and Luke Dysinger. New York: Oxford University Pres0
Articuli a facultate sacrae theologiae Parisiensi. Cum Antidoto. By John Calvin. Edited by Adriaan Bas. Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 191. Geneva: Droz, 2023. 207 pp. $51.60. paper.0
On Laudianism. By Peter Lake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 654 pp. £39.99.0
Which “America”? What “Civilization”?0
Revisioning John Chrysostom: New Approaches, New Perspectives. Edited by Chris L. De Wet and Wendy Mayer. Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxviii + 840 pp. $299.00 e-b0
Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth-Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours. By Tamar Rotman. Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Pres0
CHH volume 93 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium. By Gordon Leidner. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023. 245 pp. $27.95 paper.0
A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church. African History and Culture. By Lauren V. Jarvis. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2024. 293 pages0
Materiality and Religious Practice in Medieval Denmark. Edited by Sarah Croix and Mads Vedel Heilskov. Acta Scandinavica 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 296 pp. $111.00 cloth.0
Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000 – c. 1500. Edited by Thomas W. Smith. Europa Sacra, 24. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020. 412 pp. $132.00 hardcover.0
Church-Building and the Consolidation of the United States, 1865–19000
Heiligenverehung im spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Rom: Hagiographie und Topographie im Diskurs. By Wiebke Schulz-Wackerbarth. Kontexte. Neue Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Theolo0
Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity. By Joseph E. Sanzo. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. xiv + 171 pp. 10 color, 1 b&w image. $34.95 paper;0
Joseph Fielding Smith: A Mormon Theologian. By Matthew Bowman. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2024. ix + 122 pp. $14.95.0
The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond: A New History of the English Province of the Friars Preachers. By Richard Finn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xix + 387pp. £90 hardba0
A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World. By John Jeffries Martin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. viii + 323 pp. $35.00 cloth.0
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