Church History articles from December 1999

Church History archives from December 1999

Jerald C. Brauer (1921-1999).
December 1, 1999... Jerald C. Brauer, coeditor of Church History for the thirty-five years between 1963 and 1998, died of leukemia on September 26, 1999, at the age of seventy-eight. Memorial services were held in Chicago on October 1 and November 3. During...

Errata.
December 1, 1999... Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Vol. 68, No. 4, December 1999 Errata: The second sentence of the caption for the picture on 948 should read: "The neoclassical lines of St. Paul's reflected an old-school...

"Let Us Go and Burn Her Body": The Image of the Jews in the Early Dormition Traditions.
December 1, 1999... In his recent book, Mary through the Centuries, Jaroslav Pelikan notes that "one of the most profound and persistent roles of the Virgin Mary in history has been her function as a bridge builder to other traditions, other cultures, and other...

Were There Twelfth-Century Cistercian Nuns?
December 1, 1999... It has been a truism in the history of medieval religious orders that the Cistercians only admitted women late in the twelfth century and then under considerable outside pressure. This view has posited a twelfth-century "Golden Age" when it had...

Seeing and Believing in the Commentaries on John by Martin Bucer and John Calvin.
December 1, 1999... Nevertheless, all Lutherans, compelled by the arguments of the faithful, begin to distinguish concerning faith. John Eck.(1) John Eck's allegation that those advancing justification by faith alone were themselves finding it necessary...

The Mother of God's People: The Adoration of the Holy Spirit in the Eighteenth-Century Brudergemeine.
December 1, 1999... "Lord God, now we praise you, you worthy Holy Spirit! The church in unity honors you, the mother of Christendom. All the angels and the host of heaven and whoever serves the honor of the Son; also the cherubim and seraphim, sing with a clear...

"My chains fell off, my heart was free": Early Methodist Conversion Narrative in England.
December 1, 1999... From twelve at night till two it was my turn to stand sentinel at a dangerous post.... As soon as I was alone, I kneeled down, and determined not to rise, but to continue crying and wrestling with God, till He had mercy on me. How long I was in...

"We cannot spare you": Phillips Brooks's Break with the Evangelical Party, 1859-1873.
December 1, 1999... Despite renewed scholarly interest in Evangelical Episcopalianism recently, important questions persist about the party's demise in the last third of the nineteenth century. Though church historians have advanced some plausible explanations for...

The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith.
December 1, 1999... The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith. By Andrew E Walls. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1996. xx + 266 pp. $20.00 paper. When he completed graduate work in patristics at Oxford in the 1950s, Andrew...

Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender.
December 1, 1999... Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender. Edited by Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, and Valarie H. Ziegler. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xviii + 515 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. ...

Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents.
December 1, 1999... Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents. By David W. Music. Studies in Liturgical Musicology 7. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998. xix + 211 pp. $40.00 cloth. David Music is professor of church music at Southwestern Baptist...

Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition.
December 1, 1999... Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition. By Patricia Ranft. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xii + 308 pp. $39.95 cloth. Patricia Ranft argues in her book Women and Spiritual Equality that Christianity has always acknowledged the...

Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages.
December 1, 1999... Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages. By Eugen Weber. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 294 pp. n.p. Eugen Weber, a distinguished historian of modern Europe with a special interest in...

Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity.
December 1, 1999... Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity. Edited by Graham N. Stanton and Guy G. Stroumsa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 370 pp. $64.95 cloth. Collections of essays often wax and wane, sometimes even...

Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide.
December 1, 1999... Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide. By Gerard O'Daly. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999. xii + 323 pp. $85.00 cloth. Besides the Confessions, the City of God is Augustine's best-known and most influential work. Its richness, diversity, and...

Medieval Saints: A Reader.
December 1, 1999... Medieval Saints: A Reader. Edited by Mary-Ann Stouck. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 4. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 1999. xiv + 637 pp. $22.95 paper. It is not all here, but it is as close to "all here" as a one-volume...

Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography.
December 1, 1999... Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. By John Kitchen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi + 256 pp. $49.95 cloth. The past few years have seen the proliferation of innovative works...

The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England.
December 1, 1999... The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England. By Mary Clayton. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 355 pp. $69.95 cloth. This book consists primarily of critical editions...

Pastors and the Care of Souls in Medieval England.
December 1, 1999... Pastors and the Care of Souls in Medieval England. Edited by John Shinners and William J. Dohar. Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture 4. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. xx + 332 pp. $40.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. John...

The Church in the Medieval Town.
December 1, 1999... The Church in the Medieval Town. Edited by T.R. Slater and Gervase Rosser. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Variorum, 1998. xiv + 307 pp. $87.95 cloth. This volume of twelve essays presents conclusions from a five-year research seminar funded at...

Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales.
December 1, 1999... Medieval Bishops' Houses in England and Wales. By Michael Thompson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xvi + 207 pp. $59.95 cloth. Here is a wonderfully old-fashioned compendium of information about a subject never before treated synoptically:...

English Episcopal Acta, Vol. 16: Coventry and Lichfield 1160-1182.
December 1, 1999... English Episcopal Acta, Vol. 16: Coventry and Lichfield 1160-1182. Edited by M. J. Franklin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. lvi + 148 pp. $60.00 cloth. Already the editor of two volumes in this EEA series, M. J. Franklin here...

The Pagan Middle Ages.
December 1, 1999... The Pagan Middle Ages. Edited by Ludo J. R. Milis. Translated by Tanis Guest. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 1998. 160 pp. $54.00 cloth. The Pagan Middle Ages, a collection of papers originally published in Dutch as De heidense Middeleeuwen in...

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.
December 1, 1999... Medicine in the English Middle Ages. By Faye Getz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv + 174 pp. $32.50 cloth. Faye Getz has provided us with a useful introduction to the world of medicine and its practice in medieval England....

Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain.
December 1, 1999... Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain. By Rose Walker. British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. London: British Library, 1998. 264 pp. $75.00 cloth. In the introduction to her brilliant study, Rose Walker,...

Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World.
December 1, 1999... Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. Edited by Barbara Newman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x + 278 pp. $48.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. This collection of essays on aspects of the life and writings of...

The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism (1200-1350).
December 1, 1999... The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism (1200-1350). Vol. 3 of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. By Bernard McGinn. New York: Crossroad, 1998. xv + 526 pp. $59.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. ...

The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery.
December 1, 1999... The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery. By Leonard P. Hindsley. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. xxii + 234 pp. $45.00 cloth. The Dominican monastery of Engelthal in Nuremberg merits an important place in the story of...

Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275 - c. 1525.
December 1, 1999... Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275 - c. 1525. By Charles E Briggs. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 207 pp....

Joan of Arc, Her Story.
December 1, 1999... Joan of Arc, Her Story. By Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin. Revised and translated by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xiv + 304 pp. $27.95 cloth. This unusual volume begins with a...

Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin.
December 1, 1999... Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin. By Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 71. Leiden: Brill, 1998. xiv + 276 pp. $103.50 cloth. This book challenges the conventional...

The Magnificant Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia.
December 1, 1999... The Magnificant Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia. By Thomas A. Fudge. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xiv + 319 pp., 18 black-and-white illustrations. $84.95 cloth. This milestone...

Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe.
December 1, 1999... Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe. By Noel L. Brann. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. x + 354 pp. $23.95 paper....

Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation.
December 1, 1999... Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell. Studies in the History of Christian Thought 85. Leiden: Brill, 1998. x + 350 pp. $121.50 cloth. Lauded by his admirers as "monarch of...

Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe.
December 1, 1999... Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe. By Auke Jelsma. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xii + 192 pp. $76.95 cloth. This collection of eleven essays,...

Reformatoren.
December 1, 1999... Reformatoren. By Thomas Kaufmann. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1998. 112 pp. DM 17.80. Kaufmann hopes to "make easier" the reader's entry into Reformation studies through this slim volume that supplements standard social and...

Organum Deitatis: Die Christologie des Thomas de Vio Cajetan.
December 1, 1999... Organum Deitatis: Die Christologie des Thomas de Vio Cajetan. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 62. By Marcel Nieden. New York: Brill, 1997. xiv + 247 pp. $100.00 cloth. This is a remarkable study of the Christology of Cajetan...

Veroffentlichte Kirchenpolitik: Kirche im publizistischen Streit zur Zeit der Religionsgesprache (1538-1541).
December 1, 1999... Veroffentlichte Kirchenpolitik: Kirche im publizistischen Streit zur Zeit der Religionsgesprache (1538-1541). By Georg Kuhaupt. Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte 69. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1998. 369 pp. DM 148 cloth....

The Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603.
December 1, 1999... The Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603. By C. Scott Dixon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 231 pp. n.p. Ansbach and Kulmbach, small lands that flanked the territory of...

Pfarrer und Nationalsozialismus: Geschichte einer Verstrickung am Beispiel der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern.
December 1, 1999... Pfarrer und Nationalsozialismus' Geschichte einer Verstrickung am Beispiel der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern. By Bjorn Mensing. Arbeiten zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte Reihe B (Darstellungen) 26. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht,...

Calvin et ses contemporains: Actes du colloque de Paris 1995.
December 1, 1999... Calvin et ses contemporains: Actes du colloque de Paris 1995. Edited by Olivier Millet. Cahiers d'humanisme et renaissance (formerly Etudes de philologie et d'histoire) 53. Geneva: Droz, 1998. 314 pp. n.p. The nineteen essays in this...

Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy.
December 1, 1999... Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. By Stuart Carroll. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 298 pp. $59.95 cloth. ...

War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris.
December 1, 1999... War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris. By Vesna Drapac. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xviii + 302 pp. $74.95 cloth. Vesna Drapac, lecturer in history at the University of Adelaide,...

Giuseppe Dossetti: Prime prospettive e ipotesi di ricerca.
December 1, 1999... Giuseppe Dossetti: Prime prospettive e ipotesi di ricerca. Edited by Giuseppe Alberigo. Bologna: Societh editrice il Mulino, 1998. 145 pp. n.p. Giuseppe Dossetti (1913-96) was a figure of great versatility in the period following World War...

Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World.
December 1, 1999... Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World. Edited by Mary E. Giles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii + 402 pp. $49.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Although its obsessions with the culinary and vestimentary practices of...

John Knox and the British Reformations.
December 1, 1999... John Knox and the British Reformations. Edited by Roger A. Mason. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xvi + 297 pp. $84.95 cloth. Knox preached his first sermon in April 1547 from the pulpit of the Church of the Holy Trinity in St. Andrews. In...

"Practical Divinity": The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham.
December 1, 1999... "Practical Divinity": The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham. By Kenneth L. Parker and Eric J. Carlson. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xiv + 395 pp. $102.95 cloth. Kenneth L. Parker and...

James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom.
December 1, 1999... James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 409 pp. $59.95 cloth. In this much anticipated historical monograph, W. B....

Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland c. 1650-c. 1850.
December 1, 1999... Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland c. 1650-c. 1850. Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 317 pp. $64.95 cloth. The place of religion in the concerns of historians...

Religion and Society in England and Wales, 1689-1800.
December 1, 1999... Religion and Society in England and Wales, 1689-1800. Edited by William Gibson. Documents in Early Modern Social History. London: Leicester University Press, 1998. xii + 241 pp. $75.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. This source book contains an...

Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland: The Popular Party, 1740-1800.
December 1, 1999... Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland: The Popular Party, 1740-1800. By John R. McIntosh. Scottish Historical Review Monograph Series 5. East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell, 1998. xii + 260 pp. 20.00 [pounds sterling] paper. The author of...

Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works.
December 1, 1999... Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works. By Janet Grayson. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998. xxvi + 240 pp. $39.50 cloth. Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was once the most popular Catholic novelist in England. His brief life and...

The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism.
December 1, 1999... The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism. By David W. Fagerberg. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. viii + 214. $25.00 cloth. Religious conversion can be a traumatic and emotional event in the life of a person seeking...

At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh.
December 1, 1999... At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh. By Kathleen Powers Erickson. Foreword by Martin E. Marty. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. xviii + 198 pp. $22.00 cloth. The art and life of Vincent van Gogh has attracted a...

Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics and Social Change in East Central Europe and Russia.
December 1, 1999... Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics and Social Change in East Central Europe and Russia. By Sabrina P. Ramet. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xii + 425 pp. $69.95 cloth; $23.95 paper. This book deals with the history of religion in...

Religion and the War in Bosnia.
December 1, 1999... Religion and the War in Bosnia. Edited by Paul Mojzes. American Academy of Religion, The Religions 3. Atlanta: Scholars, 1998. xii + 294 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Paul Mojzes has established an enviable reputation as an ecumenical...

The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom.
December 1, 1999... The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. By John T. Noonan Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 436 pp. $35.00 cloth. This book contains the erudition of someone who has not only read...

John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War.
December 1, 1999... John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv + 331 pp. $45.00 cloth. Richard W. Cogley takes issue with historians such as Francis Jennings who,...

Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America.
December 1, 1999... Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America. Edited by Elizabeth Reis. Worlds of Women. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1998. xxiv + 282 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. What is a witch? And why have most accused and self-proclaimed...

Inventing the "Great Awakening".
December 1, 1999... Inventing the "Great Awakening." By Frank Lambert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv + 300 pp. $35.00 cloth. "Everybody knows" that in the nineteenth-century Charles G. Finney regarded revivals as something to be engineered...

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: The Roots of 250 Years of Organized Lutheranism in North America.
December 1, 1999... Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: The Roots of 250 Years of Organized Lutheranism in North America. Edited by John W. Kleiner. Studies in Religion and Society 41. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 1998. xii + 164 pp. $79.95 cloth. In 1742, a...

Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism.
December 1, 1999... Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. By Ellen Eslinger. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xxii + 306 pp. n.p. In Citizens of Zion, Ellen Eslinger revises standard explanations of the Great Kentucky...

Restless Visionaries: The Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.
December 1, 1999... Restless Visionaries: The Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xiv + 562 pp. $57.50 cloth. Scores of studies of antebellum social reform have appeared...

The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia.
December 1, 1999... The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Christopher H. Owen. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xx + 290 pp. $50.00 cloth. Northeastern State University professor Christopher Owen...

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief.
December 1, 1999... Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. By Roger Lundin. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. xiv + 305 pp. $24.00 cloth; $16.00 paper. We all know that Emily Dickinson chafed under a harsh Puritan upbringing...

Prohibition and Politics: The Life of Bishop James Cannon, Jr.
December 1, 1999... Prohibition and Politics: The Life of Bishop James Cannon, Jr. By Robert A. Hohner. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi + 454 pp. $45.00 cloth. The author begins with the assertion that Bishop Cannon "was probably the...

The Religious Art of Andy Warhol.
December 1, 1999... The Religious Art of Andy Warhol. By Jane Daggett Dillenberger. New York: Continuum, 1998. 128 pp. $39.95 cloth. For many people today, artists are heroes. In the history of the United States, the glorification of the artist among...

American Madonna: Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture.
December 1, 1999... American Madonna: Images of the' Divine Woman in Literary Culture. By John Gatta. Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii + 179 pp. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. With this elegant study of the role of the...

The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches.
December 1, 1999... The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches. By James Tunstead Burtchaell, C.S.C. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. xx + 868 pp. $45.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. This is not a book for...

Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present.
December 1, 1999... Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present. Edited by Douglas Jacobsen and William Vance Trollinger Jr. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. xvi + 492 pp. $28.00 paper. As an outgrowth of the "Re-Forming the Center:...

God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny.
December 1, 1999... God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny. Edited by Conrad Cherry. Rev. and updated ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xii + 410 pp. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. For three decades Conrad Cherry...

Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993.
December 1, 1999... Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993. By Mark Hulsether. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xl + 374 pp. $38.00 cloth. Attempting to fill a much-needed gap, this book tells the story of one...

Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse.
December 1, 1999... Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse. Edited by Saul M. Olyan and Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx + 268 pp. $29.95 cloth. This volume of essays is a, largely successful attempt...

Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America.
December 1, 1999... Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America. By Theophus H. Smith. Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvi + 287 pp. $60.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. In Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black...

Faith's Harvest: Mennonite Identity in Northwest Oklahoma.
December 1, 1999... Faith's Harvest: Mennonite Identity in Northwest Oklahoma. By Sharon Hartin Iorio. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xviii + 320 pp. $27.95 cloth. Faith's Harvest is the story of Mennonites who settled and lived in the...

Local Baptists, Local Politics: Churches and Communities in the Middle and Uplands South.
December 1, 1999... Local Baptists, Local Politics: Churches and Communities in the Middle and Uplands South. By Clifford A. Grammich Jr. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xv + 244 pp. $30.00 cloth. Clifford Grammich, director of research at...

Mormon Passage: A Missionary Chronicle.
December 1, 1999... Passage: A Missionary Chronicle. By Gary and Gordon Shepherd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xvi + 456 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Since the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in...

The Cross in the Dark Valley: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1931-1945.
December 1, 1999... The Cross in the Dark Valley: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1931-1945. By A. Hamish Ion. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 1999. xvi + 428 pp. $39.95 cloth. This work is a continuation...

China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society.
December 1, 1999... China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society. By Richard Madsen. Comparative Studies in Religion and Society 12. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xiv + 186 pp. $27.50 cloth. Like other religions,...

Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People c. 1870s-1990s.
December 1, 1999... Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People c. 1870s-1990s. By David Maxwell. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xii + 291 pp. $59.95 cloth. This innovative and path-breaking study by David Maxwell portrays the...

The Great White Flood: Racism in Australia.
December 1, 1999... The Great White Flood: Racism in Australia. By Anne Pattel-Gray. American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series 2. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars, 1998. xvi + 312 pp. $24.95 cloth. This is a book whose time has long been coming. The need...

Awards of the American Society of Church History.
December 1, 1999... The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, offered annually, is a subvention fund of $1,000 to assist a press in publishing a book-length manuscript in church history. The prize is limited to first books. The monetary grant will be made upon...