Church History articles from June 2009

Church History archives from June 2009

Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000535 Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity. By Colleen M. Conway. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 258 pp. $65.00 cloth. In the early twentieth century, churchmen such as Warren...

Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000547 Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians. By Dale B. Martin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 307 pp. $18.95 paper. This book has many unique...

Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures, c. 360-430.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000559 Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures, c. 360-430. By Maijastina Kahlos. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. x + 215 pp. $99.95...

The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the "Arian Controversy.".(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000560 The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the "Arian Controversy." By David M. Gwynn. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv + 286 pp....

Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000572 Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World. Edited by Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 266 pp. $110.00 cloth. On the face of it, the Carolingian "lay...

The Latin Church in Norman Italy.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000584 The Latin Church in Norman Italy. By G. A. Loud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 581 pp. $140.00 cloth. Being a fruit of many years of research, The Latin Church in Norman Italy is a...

Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095-c. 1187.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000596 Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c. 1095-c. 1187. By William J. Purkis. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. xii + 215 pp. $90.00 cloth. In this lucid and measured monograph, William Purkis...

History and the Supernatural in Medieval England.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000602 History and the Supernatural in Medieval England. By Carl S. Watkins. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series 66. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 277 pp. $99.00 cloth....

The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000614 The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism. Edited by James G. Clark. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 30. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2007. xvi + 224 pp. $85.00 cloth. This collection of essays...

Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000626 Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stober. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion XXXV. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. xiv + 258 pp....

Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000638 Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy. Edited by Louise Bourdua and Anne Dunlop. Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xvi + 236 pp. $99.95 cloth. ...

Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S000964070900064X Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450-1700. By Silvia Evangelisti. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 303 pp. $21.95 cloth. One of the achievements of Silvia Evangelisti's book on nuns in the early...

Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000651 Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821. By Gloria Fraser Giffords. The Southwest Center Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. xiv + 467 pp. $75.00 cloth....

Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000663 Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650. By Alan Durston. History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre...

Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000675 Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum. By Nicholas D. Jackson. Cambridge Studies in Early Modem British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000687 Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America. Edited by A. G. Roeber. Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State...

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000699 The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America. By John Fea. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 272 pp. $39.95 cloth. Most...

A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000705 A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic. By J. Rixey Ruffin. Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x + 267 pp. $65.00 cloth. Although...

The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000717 The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. By Charles F. Irons. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv + 366. $24.94 paper....

Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi: 10.1017/S0009640709000729 Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France. By Joseph F. Byrnes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xxiii + 280 pp. $55.00 cloth. Although...

New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000730 New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase. Edited by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. x + 243 pp. $44.95 cloth. In 2004 more...

Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000742 Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam. By Jacob Ramsay. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii + 213 pp. $50.00 cloth. The early...

Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000754 Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France. By John Warne Monroe. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 297 pp. $35.00 cloth. Max Weber identified the...

On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000766 On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. By Jared Farmer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvi + 466 pp. $29.95 cloth. In part, On Zion's Mount is the story of how Mormons...

Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000778 Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier. Edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Reid L. Neilson. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2008. xii + 330 pp....

The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S000964070900078X The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era. By Morris L. Davis. Religion, Race, and Ethnicity. New York: New York University Press, 2008. viii + 199 pp. $45.00 cloth....

Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000791 Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction. By Amy Laura Hall. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. vii + 452 pp. $32.00 cloth. The Norman Rockwell painting on the cover...

The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000808 The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century. By Michael Bergunder. Studies in the History of Christian Mission. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. xii + 380 pp. $40.00 paper. The South...

The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S000964070900081X The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998. By Andrew Chandler. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2006. xii + 546. $65.00 cloth. The author...

Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000821 Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition. Edited by Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxvi + 462 pp. $29.95 paper. Two thousand and eight marked the fortieth...

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000833 Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia. By John Garrard and Carol Garrard. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxii + 329 pp. $29.95 cloth. John Garrard and Carol Garrard...

The Amish and the Media.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000845 The Amish and the Media. Edited by Diane Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher. Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x + 279 pp....

Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000857 Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World. By David W. Kriebel. Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series 8; Publications of the Pennsylvania German...

"Mek Some Noise": Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000869 "Mek Some Noise": Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad. By Timothy Rommen. Music of the African Diaspora 11. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii + 219 pp. $21.95 paper. In "Mek...

The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000870 The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture. By John Anthony McGuckin. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008. xvi + 461. $149.95 cloth. The author presents an introduction...

Christianity in Latin America: A History.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000882 Christianity in Latin America: A History. By Ondina E. Gonzalez and Justo L. Gonzalez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii + 332 pp. $23.99 paper. The authors, a niece and uncle team,...

The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000894 The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits. Edited by Thomas Worcester. Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii + 361 pp. $29.99 paper. Although several Cambridge Companions...

Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: A Critical History of Religion and Related Categories.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000900 Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: A Critical History of Religion and Related Categories. By Timothy Fitzgerald. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 355 pp. $49.95 cloth. How did "religion" and...

Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000912 Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture. Edited by Walter H. Conser, Jr., and Rodger M. Payne. Religion in the South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 383 pp. $60.00 cloth. ...

Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000924 Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914. Edited by Dana L. Robert. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. x + 307 pp. $40.00...

The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000936 The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America. By James M. O'Toole. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. 377 pp. $27.95 cloth. Historians have several good surveys of...

Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000948 Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America. Edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer. Print Culture History in Modem America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xx + 371 pp. $29.95...

American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S000964070900095X American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement. By Barry Hankins. Critical Issues in History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xiv + 209 pp. $34.95 cloth. American...

African Pentecostalism: An Introduction.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... doi:10.1017/S0009640709000961 African Pentecostalism: An Introduction. By Ogbu Kalu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi + 360 pp. $24.95 paper. A leading historian of African Christianity, Ogbu Kalu's scholarly contributions...

Books received.
June 1, 2009... Alexander, Paul, Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God. C. Henry Smith Series 9. Telford, Pa.: Cascadia, 2009. Anyabwile, Thabati M., The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural...