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Recent articles from The Catholic Historical Review

Involvement in language: the role of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae in the history of Lingala.(Report)
April 1, 2009... The missionaries of Scbeut (Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae) played an important role in the history of the Congolese language Lingala. The linguistic policies and practices they developed not only bad a serious impact on the language's geographical spread and range of sociocultural...

The eighty-ninth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.(Conference news)
April 1, 2009... Report of the Committee on Program The 2009 annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association took place, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Historical Association and other affiliated societies, at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers from Friday,...

The Crusades In Recent Research.(books about the Crusades)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Crusades: A History. By Jonathan Riley-Smith. Second Edition. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 353. $20.00. ISBN 978-0-300-10128-7.) The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam. By Jonathan Riley-Smith. [The Bampton Lectures in America, 2007.] (New York: Columbia...

General and Miscellaneous.(Light from the Christian East: An introduction to the Orthodox Tradition)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Light from the Christian East: An introduction to the Orthodox Tradition. By James R Payton. Jr. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. 2007. Pp. 240. $22.00 paperback. ISBN 978-0-830-82594-3.) James Payton's book is designed to introduce Orthodox thought and culture to an audience of...

The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South.(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. By Philip Jenkins. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 252. $26.00 hardback; $15.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-195-36851-2.) This volume is a historian's witty, erudite, and provocative reflection on popular...