General
Davis, Stephen J., Monasticism. A very short introduction. Pp. xx + 148 incl. 9 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 871764 5
Nicoll, Andrew R. (ed.), Archivum Arcis. Sources of British and Irish history in the Archivum Arcis collection of the Vatican secret archives, 855–1789. Calendared and researched by Mgr Charles Burns, OBE, canon of St Peter's Basilica, Rome. Pp. x + 188. Edinburgh: Scottish Catholic Historical Society, 2017. £15 (paper). 978 0 9575756 2 2
Ancient world
Bauckham, Richard, The Christian world around the New Testament. Collected essays II. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 386.) Pp. x + 757 incl. 1 table and 1 map. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. €259. 978 3 16 153305 1
Brons, Martin, Augustins Trinitätslehre praktisch. Katechese, liturgie, predigt. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 105.) Pp. xiv + 255. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 155393 6
Denecker, Tim, Ideas on language in early Latin Christianity. From Tertullian to Isidore of Seville. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 142.) Pp. xvi + 497 incl. 1 fig and 2 tables. Boston–Leiden: Brill, 2017. €149. 978 90 04 34987 2;
Döhler, Marietheres (eds), Acta Petri. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar zu den Actus Vercellenses. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur [TU], 171.) Pp. xiv + 382 incl. 2 ills and 3 tables. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. €119.95. 978 3 11 049464 8;
Knell, Matthew, Sin, grace and free will. A historical survey of Christian thought, I: The Apostolic Fathers to Augustine. Pp. viii + 260. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2017. £65. 978 0 227 17606 1
Martens, Peter W. (ed.), Adrian's introduction to the divine Scriptures. An Antiochene handbook for scriptural interpretation. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xvi + 344. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £120. 978 0 19 870362 4
Mosshammer, Alden A. (ed.), The prologues on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria and [Cyril]. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xii + 194 incl. 2 tables. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £95. 978 0 19 879257 4
Perrin, Michel-Yves, Civitas confusionis. De la participation des fidèles aux controverses religieuses dans l'antiquité tardive. (Début IIIᵉ s. – c. 430). Pp. 408. Paris: Nuvis, 2017. €27 (paper). 978 2 36367 032 8
Rembold, Ingrid, Conquest and Christianization. Saxony and the Carolingian world, 772–888. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth Series.) Pp. xviii + 277 incl. 1 fig and 5 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 107 19621 6
Schmid, Herbert, Christen und Sethianer. Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um den religionsgeschichtlichen und den kirchengeschichtlichen Begriff der Gnosis. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 143.) Pp. x + 474. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €138. 978 90 04 35365 7;
Schröter, Jens and Schwarz, Konrad (eds) (with Paul, Clarissa), Die Nag-Hammadi-Schriften in der Literatur- und Theologiegeschichte des frühen Christentums. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 106.) Pp. x + 319 incl. 1 table. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. €89 (paper). 978 3 16 155365 3; .
Siegal, Michal Bar-Asher, Grünstäudl, Wolfgang and Thiessen, Matthew (eds), Perceiving the other in ancient Judaism and early Christianity. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 394.) Pp. viii + 197 incl. 1 ill. and 2 tables. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. €99. 978 3 16 154962 5;
Srokosz, Meric and Watson, Rebecca S., Blue planet, blue god. The Bible and the sea. Pp. xii + 255. London: SCM Press, 2017. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 334 05633 1
Wallraff, Martin, Stutz, Jonathan and Marinides, Nicolas (eds), Gelasius of Caesarea. Ecclesiastical history. The extant fragments. With an appendix containing the fragments from dogmatic writings. (Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 25.) Pp. cxii + 294. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. €129.95. 978 3 11 047580 7;
Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Beach, Alison I., The trauma of monastic reform. Community and conflict in twelfth-century Germany. Pp. x + 190 incl. 15 ills and 3 tables. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. £75. 978 1 108 41731 0
Campbell, William H., The landscape of pastoral care in 13th-century England. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth Series.) Pp. xiv + 294 incl. 4 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 316 51038 4
Carpenter, David (commentary), Magna Carta. (Penguin Classics.) Pp. xvi + 594. London: Penguin, 2015. £10.99 (paper). 978 0 241 95337 2
Champion, Matthew S., The fullness of time. Temporalities of the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Pp. xvi + 284 incl. 34 ills and 5 colour plates. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. £41.50. 978 0 226 51479 6
Clark, John, and Hogg, James (eds), Mount Grace Charterhouse and late medieval English spirituality, I: The works of Richard Methley. Scola Amoris Languidi; Refectorium Salutis; Dormitorium Dilecti Dilecti; Experimentum Veritatis; To Hew heremyte. (Analecta Cartusiana, 64:1.) Pp. xxvi + 119 incl. colour frontispiece and 8 colour ills. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2017. 978 3 903185 08 1
Coombe, Margaret, Mouron, Anne and Whitehead, Christiania, Saints of north-east England, 600–1500. (Medieval Church Studies, 39.) Pp. xviii + 363 incl. 19 ills and 4 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. €100. 978 2 503 56715 0
Dahan, Gilbert and Rillon-Marne, Anne-Zoé, Philippe le Chancelier prédicateur, théologien et poète parisien du début du xiiie siècle. (Bibliothèque d'Histoire Culturelle du Moyen Âge, 19.) Pp. 326 incl. 9 tables and 13 colour and black-and-white ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. €85 (paper). 978 2 503 57628 2
Desplenter, Youri, Pieters, Jürgen and Melion, Walter, The Ten Commandments in medieval and early modern culture. (Intersections. Interdisplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 52.) Pp. xii + 241 incl. 17 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2017. €109. 978 90 04 30982 1;
DiCenso, Daniel J. and Maloy, Rebecca, Chant, liturgy, and the inheritance of Rome. Essays in honour of Joseph Dyer. (Henry Bradshaw Society, VIII.) Pp. xxiv + 572 incl. 35 colour and black-and-white ills, 24 tables and 50 music examples. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (published in association with the Henry Bradshaw Society), 2017. £60. 978 1 907497 34 6
Edwards, Nancy, Mhaonaigh, Máire Ní and Flechner, Roy, Transforming landscapes of belief in the early medieval insular world and beyond. Converting the isles II. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 23.) Pp. xx + 528 incl. 50 ills and 1 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. €120. 978 2 503 56868 3
Falkeid, Unn, The Avignon papacy contested. An intellectual history from Dante to Catherine of Siena. Pp. x + 269. London–Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2017. £39.95. 978 0 674 97184 4
Fitzgerald, Brian, Inspiration and authority in the Middle Ages. Prophets and their critics from scholasticism to humanism. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Pp. xii + 277. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £65. 978 0 19 880824 4
Fitzpatrick, Antonia, Thomas Aquinas on bodily identity. Pp. x + 203. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £60. 978 0 19 879085 3
Haile, Getatchew, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church's tradition on the holy cross. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 10.) Pp. x + 285 incl. frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €162. 978 90 04 34868 4;
Lavinsky, David, The material text in Wycliffite biblical scholarship. Inscription and sacred truth. Pp. xiv + 280 incl. 17 figs. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2017. £65. 978 1 78327 254 9
Lecker, Michael, Muslims, Jews and pagans. Studies on early Islamic Medina. (Gorgias Islamic Studies, 9.) Pp. xviii + 181 incl. 2 maps and 2 tables. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017. $45 (paper). 978 1 4632 0664 2
Mihoc, Vasile-Octavian, Christliche Bilderverehrung im Kontext islamischer Bilderlosigkeit. Der Traktat über die Bilderverehrung von Theodor Abū Qurrah (ca. 755 bis ca. 830). (Göttinger Orientforschungen I. Reihe: Syriaca, 53.) Pp. 272 incl. 2 ills and 2 tables. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. €58. 978 3 447 10791 4;
Naismith, Rory and Woodman, David A. (eds), Writing, kingship and power in Anglo-Saxon England. Pp. xxx + 335 incl. 9 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £90. 978 8 1 107 16097 2
Patschovsky, Alexander (ed.), Joachim von Fiore Concordia Novi ac Veteris Testamenti. 4 vols. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 28.) Pp. 463; viii + 504; 505–1024; 1025–1497 incl. 36 colour ills. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. €348. 978 3 447 10679 5;
Post, Gaines (ed. Courtenay, William J.), The papacy and the rise of the universities. (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.) Pp. xii + 263 incl. 1 colour ill. Boston–Leiden: Brill, 2017. €124. 978 90 04 34726 7;
Stow, Kenneth, Levi's vindication. The 1007 anonymous ‘as it really is’. Pp. xviii + 250 incl. 5 ills. Pittsburgh, Pa: Hebrew Union College Press/University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. $29.95. 978 0 8229 4518 5
Verger, Jacques and Lainé, Françoise (with Boutoulle, Frédéric and Lemaitre, Jean-Loup), Le Livre du chapitre de Saint-Émilion. (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Obituaires, Série IN-8°, XVII.) Pp. x + 507 incl. 11 figs, 2 maps, 7 tables and 103 colour plates. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2017. €50 (paper). 978 2 87754 362 0
Wranovix, Matthew, Priests and their books in late medieval Eichstätt. Pp. xx + 221 incl. 1 table and 1 map. London–Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. £65. 978 1 4985 4886 1
Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe
Bahlcke, Joachim, Störtkuhl, Beate and Weber, Matthias (trans. Patey, Sarah), The Luther effect in Eastern Europe. History – culture – memory. (Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, 69.) Pp. 379 incl. 242 colour figs, 4 colour maps and 1 table. Boston–Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. €29.95. 978 3 11 053767 3
Barron, John Penrose, From Samos to Soho. The unorthodox life of Joseph Georgirenes, a Greek archbishop. (Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, 12.), Pp. xviii + 399 incl. frontispiece, 4 figs and 5 maps. Bern–Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. £48 (paper). 978 3 0343 1788 7;
Bertoglio, Chiara, Reforming music. Music and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century. Pp. xxxvi + 836. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. €89.95. 978 3 11 051805 4.
Boswell, Caroline, Disaffection and everyday life in interregnum England. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.) Pp. xii + 288 incl. 2 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2017. £65. 978 1 78327 045 3
Bowden, Caroline (ed.), The chronicles of Nazareth (The English convent). Bruges, 1629–1793. (The Catholic Records Society.) Pp. xxxiv + 555 incl. colour frontispiece, 2 maps, 6 figs and 1 table. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for the Catholic Records Society), 2017. £50. 978 0 902832 31 2
Bracht, Katharina (ed.), Johann Major (1564–1654). Professor der Theologie, Superintendent in Jena und Kirchenpolitiker im Dreiβigjährigen Krieg. (Schrieften zur Geschichte der Theologischen Fakultät Jena, 1.) Pp. 219 incl. 19 colour ills. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017. €38. 978 3 374 05123 6
Burnett, Amy Nelson and Campi, Emidio (eds), Die schweizerische Reformation. Ein Handbuch. (First publ. as A companion to the Swiss Reformation by Brill, 2016.) Pp. 740 incl. 77 colour ills and 11 colour maps. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2017. €80. 978 3 290 17887 1
Carroll, Clare Lois, Exiles in a global city. The Irish and early modern Rome, 1609–1783. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. x + 342 incl. 31 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €149. 978 90 04 33516 5;
Freitag, Werner, Die Reformation in Westfalen. Regionale Vielfalt, Bekenntniskonflikt und Koexistenz. Pp. 383 incl. 32 ills and 2 colour maps. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2017. €28.80. 978 3 402 13167 1
Ha, Polly, Moore, Jonathan D. and Frankot, Edda (eds), The Puritans on independence. The first examination, defence, and second examination. Pp. xii + 434 incl. 3 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £120. 978 0 19 966482 5
Harlow, Jonathan (with Barry, Jonathan), Religious ministry in Bristol, 1603–1689. Uniformity to dissent. (Bristol Records Society's Publications, 69.) Pp. xii + 182 incl. 2 colour and black-and-white figs and 5 tables. Bristol: Bristol Records Society, 2017. £15. 978 0 901538 38 3
Hermann, Konstantin and Lindemann, Gerhard (eds), Zwischen Christuskreuz und Hakenkreuz. Biografien von Theologen der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsen im Nationalsozialismus. (Berichte und Studien, 75.) Pp. 328. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017. €45 (paper). 978 3 8471 0726 2;
Hovda, Bjørn Ole, The controversy over the Lord's supper in Danzig, 1561–1567. Presence and practice – Theology and confessional policy. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 39.) Pp. 317. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. €90. 978 3 525 55275 9;
Kao, Chaoluan, Reformation of prayerbooks. The humanist transformation of early modern piety in Germany and England. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 41.) Pp. 232. Göttingen–Bristol, Ct: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. €80. 978 3 525 55274 2;
Karant-Nunn, Susan C., The personal Luther. Essays on the reformer from a cultural historical perspective. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv + 229. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €110. 978 90 04 34887 5;
Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (ed.), English Catholic nuns in exile, 1600–1800. A biographical register. (Prosopographica et Genealogica, 15.) Pp. xciv + 614 + CD-Rom. Oxford: Occasional Publications UPR, 2017. £75. 978 1 900934 14 5
Kohnle, Armin and Rudersdorf, Manfred (eds), Briefe und Akten zur Kirchenpolitik Friedrichs des Weisen und Johanns des Beständigen 1513 bis 1532. Reformation im Kontext frühneuzeitlicher Staatswerdung, I: 1513–1517. Pp. 568 incl. 1 map. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017. €84. 978 3 374 04960 8
Lambert, Erin, Singing the resurrection. Body, community, and belief in Reformation Europe. (New Cultural History of Music.) Pp. xiv + 222 incl. 15 ills and 6 music examples. New York–Oxford, 2018. £42.99. 978 0 19 066164 9
Lane, Jason D., Luther's epistle of straw. The voice of St. James in Reformation preaching. (Historia Hermeneutica Series Studia, 16.) Pp. x + 252. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. €89.95. 978 3 11 053499 3;
Lavery, Jason, Reforming Finland. The diocese of Turku in the age of Gustav Vasa, 1523–1560. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 210.) Pp. xviii + 228 incl. 3 maps and 4 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €105. 978 90 04 35469 2;
Lima, Luís Filipe Silvério and Megiani, Ana Paula Torres (eds), Visions, prophecies and divinations. Early modern messianism and millenarianism in Iberian America, Spain and Portugal. (Iberian Religious World, 3.) Pp. xii + 254. Leiden: Brill, 2016. €104. 978 90 04 31077 3;
Long, Roy, Martin Luther and his legacy. A perspective on 500 years of Reformation. Pp. xii + 221 incl. 4 ills. London: Council of Lutheran Churches, 2017. $23.74. 978 0 244 93000 4
Mudrak, Marc, Reformation und alter Glaube. Zugehörigkeiten der Altgläubigen im Alten Reich und in Frankreich (1517–1540). (Ancien Régime. Aufklärung und Revolution, 43.) Pp. xii + 623. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. €99.95. 978 3 11 048962 0
Must, Nicholas, Preaching a dual identity. Huguenot sermons and the shaping of confessional identity, 1629–1685. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. viii + 247. Boston–Leiden: Brill, 2017. €110. 978 90 04 33171 6;
Pollock, Darren M., Early Stuart polemical hermeneutics. Andrew Willet's 1611 Hexapla on Romans. (Reformed Historical Theology, 50.) Pp. 351. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017. €100. 978 3 525 57053 1;
Provan, Iain, The Reformation and the right reading of Scripture. Pp. xii + 712. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2017. $49.95. 978 1 4813 0608 9
Schilling, Heinz and Menchi, Silvana Siedel, The Protestant Reformation in a context of global history. Religious reforms and world civilizations. Pp. 223. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2017. €24 (paper). 978 88 15 27407 6
Selderhuis, Herman, Martin Luther. A spiritual biography. Pp. 347 incl. 40 ills and 1 map. Wheaton, Il: Crossway, 2017. $30. 978 1 4335 5694 4
Springer, Carl P. E., Cicero in heaven. The Roman rhetor and Luther's Reformation. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xxii + 291. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €125. 978 90 04 35515 6;
Sytsma, David S., Richard Baxter and the mechanical philosophers. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xiv + 338. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £64. 978 0 19 027487 0
Tomlin, Graham, Luther's Gospel. Reimagining the world. Pp. x + 173. New York–London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 5676 7739 6
Weber, Wolfgang E. J., Luthers bleiche Erben. Kulturgeschichte der evangelischen Geistlichkeit des 17. Jahrhunderts. Pp. vii + 234 incl. 16 ills. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. €29.95 (paper). 978 3 11 054681 1
Modern Europe
Campbell, Ted. A., Encoding Methodism. Telling and retelling narratives of Wesleyan origins. Pp. x + 200. Nashville, Tn: New Room Books, 2017. $35 (paper). 978 0 938162 44 5
Chambers, Lian and O'Connor, Thomas, Forthcoming Catholic communities. Irish, Scots and English College networks in Europe, 1568–1918. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. x + 321 incl. colour and black-and-white figs and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €139. 978 90 04 35435 7;
Eason, Andrew M. and Green, Roger J. (eds), Settled views. The shorter writings of Catherine Booth. Pp. xii + 287 incl. 7 ills. London–Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. £75. 978 1 4985 6115 0
Flucke, Christoph and Schröter, Martin J. (eds), Die litterae annuae. Der Gesellschaft Jesu von Glücjstadt (1645 bis 1772). Der Catalogus mortuorum (1645–1799); und der Liber benefactorum (1676–1727); der Glückstädter katholischen Gemeinde. 2 vols. (Quellen und Forscheungen zur Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins, 125.) Pp. 735 + xii + 736 + 922 incl. 1 colour map. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2017. €49 (paper). 978 3 402 13288 3
Friedrich, Markus and Schunka, Alexander, Reporting Christian missions in the eighteenth century. Communication, culture of knowledge and regular publication in a cross-confessional perspective. (Jabloniana, Quellen und Forschungen zur europäischen Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, 8.) Pp. 196. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag, 2017. €52. 978 3 447 10825 6;
Gregory, Jeremy (ed.), The Oxford history of Anglicanism, II: Establishment and empire, 1662–1829. (Oxford History of Anglicanism.) Pp. xxviii + 527 incl. 12 figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £95. 978 0 19 964463 6
Hesketh, Ian, Victorian Jesus. J. R. Seeley, religion, and the cultural significance of anonymity. Pp. xiv + 274 incl. frontispiece and 10 ills. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2017. $55. 978 1 4426 4577 6
Wyn, James, E. (trans. Hodges, H. A.), Flame in the mountains. Williams Pantycelyn, Ann Griffiths and the Welsh hymn. Pp. 320 incl. frontispiece. Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, 2017. £12.99 (paper). 978 1 78461 454 6
Schatz, Klaus, Geschichte der Schweizer Jesuiten (1947–1983). (Geschichte der deutschen Jesuiten, vi.) Pp. xii + 378 incl. 10 ills. Münster: Aschendorff, 2017. €69. 978 3 402 13239 5
Shea, C. Michael, Newman's early Roman Catholic legacy, 1845–1854. Pp. xiv + 230. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £60. 978 0 19 880256 3
Strom, Jonathan, German Pietism and the problem of conversion. (Pietist, Moravian and Anabaptist Studies.) Pp. x + 226 incl. 1 ill. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. $89.95. 978 0 271 07934 9
Africa, Asia and Australasia
Jones, Arun W., Missionary Christianity and local religion. American evangelicalism in North India, 1836–1870. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xxii + 321 incl. 5 ills and 1 map. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2017. $59.95. 978 1 60258 432 7
Musana, Paddy, Crichton, Angus and Howell, Caroline (eds), The Ugandan churches and the political centre (Ngoma Series, 1.) Pp. xvi + 308 incl. 10 ills, 2 tables and 2 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, 2017. £30 (paper). 978 1 9997493 0 9
O'Flynn, Thomas S. R. op, The Western Christian presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870. (Studies in Christian Mission, 47.) Pp. xxviii + 1113 incl. 2 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2017. €199. 978 90 04 16399 7;
Samson, Jane, Race and redemption. British missionaries encounter Pacific peoples, 1797–1920. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Pp. x + 274. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2017. £41.99 (paper). 978 0 8028 7535 8
Society of the History of Christianity in Korea (ed.), Jeong-Il, Moon (trans.), A history of Christianity in Korea since 1945. Pp. x + 236 incl. 2 tables. Seoul: The Institute of the History of Christianity in Korea, 2017. $23 (paper). 978 89 85628 88 4
The Americas
Cubas Ramacciotti, Richardo D., The politics of religion and the rise of social Catholicism in Peru (1884–1935). Faith, workers, and race before liberation theology. (Religion in the Americas Series, 18.) Pp. xiv + 297. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €115. 978 90 04 35567 5;
Hollinger, David A., Protestants abroad. How missionaries tried to change the world but changed America. Pp. xvi + 391 incl. 30 ills. Princeton, NJ–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. £27.95. 978 0 691 15843 3
Hyland, Sabine, The Chankas and the priest. A tale of murder and exile in Highland Peru. Pp. xii + 212 + 26 figs and 2 maps. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. £42.95. 978 0 271 07122 0
Stout, Harry S., Minkema, Kenneth P and Neele, Adriaan C. (eds) (foreword Marsden, George M.), The Jonathan Edwards encyclopedia. Pp. xxxii + 615 incl. frontispiece and 3 maps. Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2017. £49.99. 978 0 8028 6952 4
General: Modern world
Avis, Paul and Guyer, Benjamin M. (eds), The Lambeth conference. Theology, history, polity and purpose. Pp. xxii + 437. London–New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017. £85. 978 0 567 66231 6
Carbrita, Joel, Maxwell, David and Wild-Wood, Emma (eds), Relocating world Christianity. Interdisciplinary studies in universal and local expressions of the Christian faith. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 7.) Pp. xiv + 347 incl. 1 table. Boston–Leiden: Brill, 2017. €65 (paper). 978 90 04 34262 0;
Cummings, Kathleen Sprows, Matovina, Timothy and Orsi, Robert A. (eds), Catholics in the Vatican II era. Local histories of a global event. Pp. xxiv + 295. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 107 14116 2
Ensign-George, Barry A., Between congregation and Church. Denomination and Christian life together. Pp. x + 369. London–New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018. £110. 978 0 567 65834 0
Strong, Rowan, Victorian Christianity & emigrant voyages to British colonies, c.1840–c.1914. Pp. xiv + 302. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £70. 978 0 19 872424 7
Thompson, Todd M., Norman Anderson and the Christian mission to modernize Islam. Pp. xii + 452. London: Hurst & Company, 2017. £55. 978 1 84904 703 6
Vos, Pieter, Liturgy and ethics. New contributions from reformed perspectives. (Studies in Reformed Theology, 33.) Pp. xi + 338 incl. 9 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €59. 978 90 04 35651 1;