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General

  • Cwiekowski, Frederick J., The Church. Theology in history. Pp. xii + 412. Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2018. $39.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 4468 3

  • Durham Cathedral. The shrine of St Cuthbert. Pp. 56 incl. 105 colour ills. London: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2018. £5 (paper). 978 1 78551 086 1

  • Jaynes, Jeffrey, Christianity beyond Christendom. The global Christian experience on medieval Mappae mundi and early modern world maps. (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 149.) Pp. 483 incl. 91 figs and 30 colour plates. Wolfenbüttel: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. €128. 978 3 447 10715 0

  • Medina, Néstor, Christianity, empire and the spirit. (Re)configuring faith and the cultural. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 11.) Pp. xii + 368. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €132 (paper). 978 90 04 35736 5

  • Meier, Johannes (ed. Nebgen, Christoph and Olschewski, Ursula), Kirchenaufbau und Ordensleben. Seelsorge, Bildung und Frömmigkeit. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Christentums in Westfalen und benachbarten Landschaften. (Westfalia Sacra, 18.) Pp. xvi + 335 incl. 27 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €58. 978 3 402 15497 7

Ancient world

  • Ameling, Walter, Cotton, Hannah M., Eck, Werner, Ecker, Avner, Isaac, Benjamin, Kushnir-Stein, Alla, Misgav, Haggai, Price, Jonathan, Weiss, Peter and Yardeni, Ada (eds), Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, IV: Iudaea/Idumaea. A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, i: 2649–3324; ii: 2225–3978. Pp. xlii + 757; xi + 758–1580 incl. 3 maps and 1884 figs. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. €299.90. 978 3 11 054364 4; 978 3 11 054364 3

  • Bäbler, Balbina and Nesselrath, Heinz-Güther, Origienes der Christ und Origenes der Platoniker. (Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and its Environs 2.) Pp. xii + 211. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €49. 978 3 16 155855 9;

  • Bagby, Stephen, Sin in Origen's commentary on Romans. Pp. xxii + 179. New York–London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. £65. 978 1 978701 08 3

  • Concannon, Cavan W., Assembling early Christianity. Trade, networks, and the letters of Dionysios of Corinth. Pp. xiv + 263 incl. 17 figs and 2 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. £75. 978 1 107 19429 8

  • Den Dulk, Matthijs, Between Jews and heretics. Refiguring Justin Martyr's dialogue with Trypho. (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World.) Pp. viii + 174 incl. 1 table. London–New York: Routledge, 2018. £115. 978 0 815 37345 2

  • Hoover, Jesse A., The Donatist Church in an apocalyptic age. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. x + 254. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £70. 978 0 19 882551 7

  • Hunter, David G. (ed.), Marriage and sexuality in early Christianity. (Ad Fontes Early Christian Sources.) Pp. xviii + 272. Minneapolis, Mn: Fortress Press, 2018. £17.99 (paper). 978 1 5064 4593 9

  • Kavvadas, Nestor, Ephraem der Syrer und Basilios der Groβe, Justinian und Edessa. Die Begegnung griechischer und syrischer Traditionsautorität in der Ephraemvita und der miaphysitisch-chalkedonische Konflikt. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 146.) Pp. vii + 206. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. 978 90 04 36185 0;

  • Latinovic, Vladimir, Christologie und Kommunion, I: Entstehung und Verbritung der homoousianischer Christologie. Pp. xx + 231 incl. 2 tables. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €41. 987 3 402 13358 3

  • Leeming, Emma Loosley, Architecture and asceticism. Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, 13.) Pp. xviii + 236 incl. 26 colour and black-and-white figs and 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €125. 978 90 04 37363 1;

  • Martin, Charles-Pierre, Histoire du Couvent Royal des Minimes Français de la très Sainte Trinité sur le Mont Pincius à Rome. Édition critique par Maria Giovanna Canzanella-Quintaluce. Regestes des actes latins par Benoȋt Schmitz. Coordination éditoriale de Jean-François Chauvard avec la collaboration de Laurence Beck, Sophie Conte, Sebastiano Roberto et Antonella Romano. (Sources et documents publiés par l’École française de Rome, 6.) Pp. xii + 1239 incl. 65 black-and-white and colour plates and 1 table. Rome: École française de Rome, 2018. €80 (paper). 978 2 7283 1208 5

  • Nyström, David E., The apology of Justin Martyr. Literary strategies and the defence of Christianity. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reiche, 462.) Pp. xiv + 183. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 155761 3

  • Otto, Jennifer, Philo of Alexandria and the construction of Jewishness in early Christian writings. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xii + 231. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 987 0 19 882072 7

  • Reed, Annette Yoshiko, Jewish-Christianity and the history of Judaism. Collected essays. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 171.) Pp. xxx + 506. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €174. 978 3 16 154476 7;

  • Shelton, W. Brian, Quest for the historical Apostles. Tracing their lives and legacies. Pp. xiv + 314 incl. 14 maps. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2018. $29.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 9855 0

  • Van Nuffelen, Peter, Penser la tolerance durant l'Antiquité tardive. (Les Conférences de L’École pratique des hautes études, 10.) Pp. 189. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2018. €16 (paper). 978 2 204 12648 9

  • Young, Frances, Ways of reading Scripture. Collected papers. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 369.) Pp. xviii + 511. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. €159. 978 3 16 154099 8

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

  • Antonsson, Haki, Damnation and salvation in Old Norse literature. (Studies in Old Norse Literature.) Pp. xiv + 258. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2018. £60. 978 1 84384 507 2

  • Berndt, Rainer, sj (ed.), Der Papst und das Buch im Spätmittelalter (1350–1500). Bildungsvoraussetzung, Handschriftenherstellung, Bibliotheksgebrauch. (Erurdir Sapientia, xiii.) Pp. 667 incl. 4 ills and 31 colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €79. 978 3 402 10445 3;

  • Ceravolo, Tonino, Vito Capialbi. Certosa e certosini in Calabria. Collectanea Cartusiae Sanctorum Stephani et Brunonis. (Analecta Cartusiana, 330: 3.) Pp. 181. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2018. €50 (paper). 978 3 903185 85 8

  • Duba, William O., Friedman, Russell L. and Schabel, Chris (eds), Studies in later medieval intellectual history in honor of William J. Courtenay. (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales. Bibliotheca, 14.) Pp. iv + 516 incl. 7 figs and 6 tables. Leuven–Bristol, Ct: Peeters, 2017. €94. 978 90 429 3393 4

  • Elders, Leo J., Thomas Aquinas and his predecessors. The philosophers and the Church Fathers in his works. Pp. xviii + 381. Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. $75. 978 0 813 23027 6

  • Forrest, Ian, Trustworthy men. How inequality and faith made the medieval Church. Pp. xvi + 503 incl. 12 figs and 4 tables. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. £35. 978 0 691 18060 1

  • Fossier, Arnaud, Le Bureau des âmes. Écritures et pratiques administratives de la Pénitencerie apostolique (XIIIe–XIVe siècle). Pp. xvi + 617 incl. 3 figs and 20 tables. Rome: École française de Rome, 2018. €39 (paper). 978 2 7283 1286 3

  • Griffith-Jones, Robin and Fernie, Eric (eds), Tomb and temple. Re-imagining the sacred buildings of Jerusalem. (Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture.) Pp. xxx + 492 incl. frontispiece, 40 colour plates and 126 figs. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £50. 978 1 78327 280 8

  • Hanke, Gregor M., osb, Vesper und Orthros des kathedralritus der Hagia Sophia zu Konstantinopel. Eine strukturanalytische und entwicklungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Psalmodie und der Formulare in den Euchologien. 2 vols. (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum, 21.) Pp. 516; xxii + 517–961 incl. 119 tables and 2 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €99. 978 3 402 11041 6;

  • Hartt, Jaret C., A critical companion to medieval motets. (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, 17.) Pp. xx + 399 incl. 13 figs, 74 music examples and 22 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £60. 978 1 78327 307 2

  • Hogg, James, Vincent of Aggsbach. The state of research. (Analecta Cartusiana, 335.) Pp. 137. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2018. €50 (paper). 978 3 903185 21 0

  • Hohensee, Ulrike, Lawo, Mathias, Lindner, Michael and Rader, Olap B. (eds), Dokumente zur Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung, 1361, ii. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Constitutiones et Acta Publica Imperatorum et Regum, XIII, 2.) Pp. 415–952. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. €140. 978 3 447 10835 5;

  • Hummer, Hans, Visions of kingship in medieval Europe. (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. xii + 380. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65. 978 0 19 879760 9

  • Jenks, Stuart (ed.), Documents on the papal plenary indulgences, 1300–1517, preached in the Regnum Teutonicum. (Later Medieval Europe, 16.) Pp. xx + 811 incl. 6 ills, 3 tables, 2 maps and 2 graphs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €175. 978 90 04 36012 9;

  • Jovanović, Kosana and Miljan, Suzana (eds), Secular power and sacral authority in medieval east-central Europe. (Central European Medieval Studies.) Pp. 186 incl. 5 tables and 9 colour ills. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. £85. 978 94 6298 166 9

  • Koch, Walter (ed.) (with Höflinger, Klaus, Spiegel, Joachim, Friedl, Christian and Gutermuth, Katharina), Die Urkunden der Deutschen Könige und Kaiser. Die Urkunden Friedrichs II. 1222–1226, I: Texte; II: Register. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica Diplomata Regum et Imperatorum Germaniae, Tomus XIV, Pars V/1.) Pp. lxxxviii + 667; 6681117 incl. 42 ills. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. €230. 978 3 447 10753 2;

  • Kupfer, Marcia, Art and optics in the Hereford map. An English mappa mundi, c.1300. Pp. x + 223 incl. frontispiece and 128 colour and black-and-white ills. New Haven–London: Yale University Press (for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), 2016. £60. 978 0 300 22033 9

  • Lower, Michael, The Tunis crusade of 1270. A Mediterranean history. Pp. x + 216 incl. 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £60. 978 0 19 874432 0

  • O'Hara, Alexander (ed.), Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe. (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity.) Pp. xxiv + 320 incl. 4 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £55. 978 0 19 085796 7

  • Orts, Albert Ferrer, Bonifacio Ferrer (1355–1417) y su tiempo segün sus primeros biógrafos, los cartujos Civera y Alfaura. (Analecta Cartusiana, 336.) Pp. 233 incl. 61 colour and black-and-white ills and 1 table. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2018. €50 (paper). 978 3 903185 29 6

  • Patschovsky, Alexander, Ein kurialer Ketzerprozeβ in Avignon (1354). Die Verurteilung der Franziskanerspiritualen Giovanni di Castiglione und Francesco d'Arquata. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Studien und Texte, 64.) Pp. xviii + 136 incl. 1 table. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. €35. 978 3 447 10968 0;

  • Price, Richard (trans. and intro.), The acts of the second council of Nicaea (787). (Translated Texts for Historians, 68.) Pp. xiv + 377; viii + 378–738. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. £120. 978 1 78694 127 5

  • Redford, Jill (ed.), The cartulary of Alvingham Priory. (Kathleen Major Series of Medieval Records.) Pp. l + 580 incl. 1 map. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for Lincoln Records Society), 2018. £60. 978 1 910653 04 3

  • Sharp, Tristan (ed.) with Cochelin, Isabelle, Dinkova-Bruun, Greti, Firey, Abigail and Silano, Giulio, From learning to love. Schools, law, and pastoral care in the Middle Ages. Essays in honour of Joseph W. Goering. (Papers in Medieval Studies, 29.) Pp. xlviii + 775 incl. frontispiece and 13 colour plates. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2017. 978 0 88844 829 3

  • Tollefsen, Torstein Theodor, St Theodore the Studite's defence of the icons. Theology and philosophy in ninth-century Byzantium. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xiv + 193 incl. 2 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £60. 978 0 19 881677 5

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

  • Abela, Joan (foreword Fusaro), Maria, Hospitaller Malta and the Mediterranean economy in the sixteenth century. Pp. xxviii + 263 incl. 10 figs, 3 charts, 2 maps and 8 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 78327 211 2

  • Armstrong, Robert and hAnnracháin, Tadhg Ó (eds), The English Bible in the early modern world. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. x + 217 incl. 3 tables and 3 black-and-white and colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €109. 978 90 04 34792 2;

  • Bireley, Robert (ed.), Botero. The reason of state. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.) Pp. xxxvi + 234. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. £24.99 (paper). 978 1 316 50672 1

  • Bodenmann, Reinhard, Briegel, Françoise and Labarthe, Oliver (eds), Guillaume Farel. Traités Messins, II: Epistre au duc de Lorraine 1543. Epistre de Pierre Caroli and la Response de Farel 1543. Seconde Epistre à Pierre Caroli 1543. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, dlxxxvi.) Pp. xii + 435 incl. 2 ills. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2018. €62. 978 2 600 15883 4;

  • Bray, Gerald, The institution of a Christian man. The Bishops’ book (1537). The King's book (1543). Bishop Bonner's book (1555). Pp. viii + 489 incl. frontispiece and 1 table. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2018. £75. 978 0 7188 9510 5

  • Burgess, Clive, The right ordering of souls. The parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the eve of the Reformation. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion.) Pp. xxii + 469 incl. 3 ills and 2 maps. Woodbridge–Rochester: Boydell Press, 2018. £60. 978 1 78327 309 6

  • Fincham, Kenneth, The further correspondence of William Laud. (Church of England Record Society, 23.) Pp. lii + 307. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for the Church of England Record Society), 2018. £70. 978 1 78327 267 9

  • Holm, Bo Kirstian and Koefoed, Nina J. (eds), Lutheran theology and the shaping of society. The Danish monarchy as example. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 33.) Pp. 365 incl. 7 black-and-white and colour figs and 2 tables. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. €80. 978 3 525 55124 0;

  • Ilg, Matthias Emil, Constantia et fortitudo. Der Kult des kapuzinischen Blutzeugen Fidelis von Sigmaringeln zwischen ‘Pietas Austriaca’ und ‘Ecclesia triumphans’. Die Verehrungsgeschichte des Protomärtyrers der Gegenreformation, des Kapuzinerordens und der ‘Congregatio de propaganda fide’ (1622–1729). Pp. 784; 785–1485 incl. 96 ills. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2016. €88 (paper). 978 3 402 13164 0

  • Johnson, Anna Marie, Beyond indulgences. Luther's reform of late medieval piety, 1518–1520. (Early Modern Studies Series, 21.) Pp. xii + 227. Kirksville, Mi: Truman State University Press, 2017. $50. 978 1 61248 212 5

  • Johnston, Wade, The devil behind the surplice. Matthias Flacius and John Hooper on adiaphora. Pp. xviii + 180. Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2018. $20 (paper). 978 1 5326 1772

  • Jürgensen, Martin Wangsgaard, Ritual and art across the Danish Reformation. Changing interiors of village churches, 1450–1600. (Ritus et artes, 6.) Pp. xl + 587 incl. 17 colour plates and 168 ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. €125. 978 2 503 54295 9

  • Kinsella, Eoin, Catholic survival in Protestant Ireland, 1660–1711. Colonel John Browne, landownership and the articles of Limerick. (Irish Historical Monograph Series.) Pp. xvi + 324 incl. 6 plates and 8 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 78327 316 4

  • Law, Ceri, Contested reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535–1584. (Studies in History New Series.) Pp. x + 235 incl. 1 fig and 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for The Royal Historical Society), 2018. £50. 978 0 86193 347 1;

  • Palmer, Thomas, Jansenism and England. Moral rigorism across the confessions. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. x + 286. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £70. 978 0 19 881665 2

  • Spierling, Karen E., de Boer, Erik A. and Holder, R. Ward (eds), Emancipating Calvin. Culture and confessional identity in francophone reformed communities. (Church History and Religious Culture, 76.) Pp. xxx + 306 incl. frontispiece, 2 graphs, 9 tables and 16 colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €89. 978 90 04 36051 8;

  • Voss, Klaas-Dieter, Das Emder Religionsgespräch von 1578. Zur Genese des gedruckten Protokolls sowie Beobachtungen zum theologischen Profil der flämischen Mennoniten. (Arbeiten zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte, 50.) Pp. 704. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018. €98. 978 3 374 05435 0

Modern Europe

  • Adams, Amy Singelton and Shevzov, Vera, Framing Mary. The mother of God in modern, revolutionary, and post-Soviet Russian culture. Pp. xiv + 344 incl. 30 ills. Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. $39 (paper). 978 0 87580 776 8

  • Barbeau, Jeffrey W., Religion in romantic England. An anthology of primary sources. (Documents of Anglophone Christianity.) Pp. xxxix + 466 incl. 2 ills. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. $69.95. 978 1 4813 0722 2

  • Crome, Andrew, Christian Zionism and English national identity, 1600–1850. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World.) Pp. viii + 305 incl. 1 colour fig. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. £88. 978 3 319 77193 9

  • Falcetta, Alessandro, A biography of James Rendel Harris, 1852–1941. The daily discoveries of a bible scholar and manuscript hunter. Pp. xxviii + 676 incl. 41 figs and 3 maps. London: T&T Clark, 2018. £150. 978 0 5676 7418 0

  • Gwynne, Paul, Francesco Benci's Quinque martyres. Introduction, translation and commentary. (Jesuit Studies, 12; Jesuit Neo-Latin Library, 1.) Pp. xiv + 739 incl. frontispiece and 11 colour ills and 1 map. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €148. 978 90 04 35660 3;

  • Ilany, Ofri, In search of the Hebrew people. Bible and nation in the German Enlightenment. (German Jewish Cultures.) Pp. xii + 181. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 2018. £42. 978 0 253 03351 2

  • Kertzer, David I., The pope who would be king. The exile of Pius IX and the emergence of modern Europe. Pp. xxx + 477 incl. 2 maps and 36 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £25. 978 0 19 882749 8

  • Lee, Hoon J., The biblical accommodation debate in Germany. Interpretation and the Enlightenment. Pp. xii + 249. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. £79.99. 978 3 319 61496 0

  • MalcolmsonPatricia, Robert Patricia, Robert Malcolmson and Stephenson, Ann (eds), A parson in wartime. The Boston diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins, 1942–1945. (Lincoln Record Society, 107.) Pp. xxxii + 247 incl. 21 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for Lincoln Record Society), 2017. £40. 978 1 910653 03 6

  • Marr, Ryan J., To be perfect is to have changed often. The development of John Henry Newman's ecclesiological outlook, 1845–1877. Pp. xxxviii + 195. London–New York: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. £70. 978 1 978700 57 4

  • Peters, Mark A. and Sanders, Reginald L. (eds), Compositional choices and meaning in the vocal music of J. S. Bach. (Contextual Bach Studies.) Pp. xvi + 328 incl. 1 fig, 4 tables and 8 music examples. London–New York: Lexington Books, 2018. £75. 978 1 4985 5495 4

  • Schepers, Heinrich, Fürstliche Prachtentfaltung in Abwesenheit des Herrschers. Bedeutung von Schloss und Hofstaat im Fürstbistum Osnabrück zur Regierungszeit Friedrichs von York (1764–1802). (Westfalen in der Vormoderne, 30.) Pp. 348 incl. 28 figs. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €51 (paper). 978 3 402 15075 7

  • Turner, Jacqueline, The Labour Church. Religion and politics in Britain, 1890–1914. Pp. xii + 273. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018. £64. 978 1 78453 943 6

  • Van Kley, Dale K., Reform Catholicism and the international suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe. Pp. xiv + 370. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2018. £32.50. 978 0 300 22846 5

  • Verhoeven, Timothy, Sexual crime, religion and masculinity in fin-de-siècle France. The Flamidien affair. (Genders and Sexualities in History.) Pp. xii + 122 incl. 7 colour ills. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. £44.99. 978 3 319 74478 0

Africa, Asia and Australasia

  • Eshete, Tibebe, The Evangelical movement in Ethiopia. Resistance and resilience. (Studies in World Christianity.) Pp. xiv + 480. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2017. £43.50 (paper). 978 1 4813 9708 6

  • Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei, Christianizing South China. Mission, development, and identity in modern Chaoshan. Pp. xiv + 172. London–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. £89.99. 978 3 319 72265 8

  • Piggin, Stuart and Linder, Robert D., The fountain of public prosperity. Evangelical Christians in Australian history, 1740–1914. Pp. xiv + 674 incl. 8 tables. Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2018. $49.95. 978 1 925523 46 1

  • White, Chris, Sacred webs. The social lives and networks of Minnan Protestants, 1840s–1920s. (Religion in Chinese Societies, 13.) Pp. xiv + 289 incl. 32 ills, 1 chart and 5 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2017. 978 90 04 33916 3;

  • Wu, Albert Monsham, From Christ to Confucius. German missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the globalization of Christianity, 1860–1950. Pp. viii + 335 incl. 5 figs and 5 maps. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2016. £60. 978 0 300 21707 0

  • Yang, Xiaoli, A dialogue between Haizi's poetry and the Gospel of Luke. Chinese homecoming and the relationship with Jesus Christ. (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 9.) Pp. xiv + 332 incl. 10 colour figs and 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €127 (paper). 978 90 04 36129 4;

The Americas

  • Millies, Steven P., Good intentions. A history of Catholic voters’ road from Roe to Trump. Pp. xviii + 275 incl. 1 table. Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2018. $24.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 4467 6

  • Perry, Seth, Bible culture and authority in the early United States. Pp. xviii + 197 incl. 8 ills. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. £27.00. 978 0 691 17913 1

  • Porterfield, Amanda, Corporate spirit. Religion and the rise of the modern corporation. Pp. viii + 204. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £22.99. 978 0 19 937265 2

General: Modern world

  • Atherstone, Andrew and Jones, David Ceri (eds), The Routledge research companion to the history of Evangelicalism. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. x + 302. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £135. 978 1 4724 3892 8

  • Corrigan, John, Religion, space, and the Atlantic world. Pp. viii + 368 incl. 47 figs. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. $69.99. 978 1 61117 796 1

  • Stanley, Brian, Christianity in the twentieth century. A world history. (History of Christianity.) Pp. xxii + 479 incl. 3 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. £27. 978 0 691 15710 8