General
Buc, Philippe, Holy war, martyrdom, and terror. Christianity, violence, and the west, ca.70 C. E. to the Iraq war. Pp. viii + 445. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. £32.50 ($49.95). 978 0 8122 4685 8
Chauvard, Jean-François, Merlotti, Andrea and Visceglia, Maria Antonietta, Casa Savoia e curia romana dal Cinquecento al Risorgimento. (Collection de l’École française de Rome, 500.) Pp. iv + 565 incl. 16 figs. Rome: École française de Rome, 2015. €35 (paper). 978 2 7283 1082 1;
Collins, David J. (ed.), The Cambridge history of magic and witchcraft in the west. From antiquity to the present. Pp. xi + 798 incl. 65 figs. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £95. 978 0 521 19418 1
Füllenbach, Elias H. and Miletto, Gianfranco (eds), Dominikaner und Juden. Dominicans and Jews. Personen, Konflikte und Perspektiven vom 13. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Personalities, conflicts, and perspectives from the 13th to the 20th century. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens. New Ser., 14.) Pp. l + 548 + colour frontispiece. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. €99.80. 978 3 05 004515 3;
Kasper, Walter (trans. Hoebel, Thomas, ed. Nelson, R. David), The Catholic Church. Nature, reality and mission. Pp. xvii + 463. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015. £35 (paper). 978 1 4411 8709 3
Marenbon, John, Pagans and philosophers. The problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz. Pp. xiii + 354. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. £24.95 ($35). 978 0 691 14255 5
Massing, Jean Michel and Zeeman, Nicolette (eds), King's College Chapel, 1515–2015. Art, music and religion in Cambridge. Pp. 422 incl. 243 black-and-white and colour ills. London–Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2014. £75. 978 1 909400 21 4
Michele, Saracino, Christian anthropology. An introduction to the human person. Pp. viii + 48. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2015. $29.95 (paper). 978 0 8091 4925 4
Van Veen, Mirjam, Visser, Piet and Waite, Gary K. (eds), Sisters. Myth and reality of Anabaptist, Mennonite, and Doopsgezind women, ca. 1525–1900. (Brill's Series in Church History, 65.) Pp. xiii + 336 incl. 31 ills + frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €135. 978 90 04 27501 0;
Vauchez, André (ed.), Profeti e profetismi. Escatologia, millenarismo e utopia. (Conifere, 7.) Pp. 488. Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna (EDB), 2014 (first publ. Éditions du Seuil, 2012). €49 (paper). 978 88 10 56008 2
White, Benjamin L., Remembering Paul. Ancient and modern contests over the image of the Apostle. Pp. xxiii + 351. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £48. 978 0 19 937027 6
Ancient world
Agamben, Giorgio, Pilate and Jesus. (Meridian. Crossing Aesthetics.) Pp. xi + 72. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2015. 978 0 8047 9233 2; 978 0 8047 9454 1
Banev, Krastu, Theophilus of Alexandria and the first Origenist controversy. Rhetoric and power. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. x + 233. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £55. 978 0 19 872754 5
Bates, Matthew W., The birth of the Trinity. Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and early Christian interpretations of the Old Testament. Pp. xii + 234. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £55. 978 0 19 872956 3
Blackwood, Stephen, The consolation of Boethius as poetic liturgy. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xxi + 338. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £75. 978 0 19 971831 4
Cook, John Granger, Crucifixion in the Mediterranean world. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 327.) Pp. xxiv + 536 incl. 19 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. €69 (paper). 978 3 16 153764 6;
Daley, Brian E. and Kolbert, Paul R. (eds), The harp of prophecy. Early Christian interpretation of the Psalms. (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, 20.) Pp. xvi + 332. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. $39 (paper). 978 0 268 02619 6
Dunn, Geoffrey D. (ed.), The bishop of Rome in late antiquity. Pp. xi + 273. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 4724 5551 2
Grundeken, Mark and Joseph, Verheyden (eds), Early Christian communities between ideal and reality. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 342.) Pp. xiii + 258. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. €99. 978 3 16 152670 1;
Kelly, Joseph F., The origins of Christmas. Revised edn. Pp. xv + 167. Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2014 (first publ. 2004). $18.95 (paper). 978 0 8146 4860 5
Keskiaho, Jesse, Dreams and visions in the early Middle Ages. The reception and use of patristic ideas, 400–900. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th Ser.) Pp. ix + 329. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £64.99. 978 1 107 08213 7; 978 1 107 44265 8
Mathieson, Erica A., Christian women in the Greek papyri of Egypt to 400 CE. (Studia Antiqua Australiensia, 6.) Pp. xii + 311. Turnhout: Brepols/New South Wales: Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University, 2014. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 55241 5
Ramelli, Ilaria and Perkins, Judith (eds), Early Christian and Jewish narrative. The role of religion in shaping narrative forms. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 348.) Pp. viii + 390. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. €134. 978 3 16 152033 4;
Rüpke, Jörg, From Jupiter to Christ. On the history of religion in the Roman imperial period. (Trans. by David M. B. Richardson of Von Jupiter zu Christus, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2011.) Pp. vii + 328. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £65. 978 0 19 870372 3
Schott, Jeremy M. and Edwards, Mark J. (eds), Macarius. Apocriticus. (Translated Texts for Historians, 62.) Pp. vii + 304. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. £18.99 (paper). 978 1 78138 130 4
Stephens, Christopher W. B., Canon law and episcopal authority. The canons of Antioch and Serdica. (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xi + 288. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £65. 978 0 19 873222 8
Tamcke, Martin and Grebenstein, Sven (eds), Geschichte, Theologie und Kultur des syrischen Christentums. Beiträge zum 7. Deutschen Syrologie-Symposium in Göttingen, Dezember 2011. (Göttinger Orientforschungen, 1. Syriaca, 46.) Pp. xiv + 482 incl. 82 ills and 3 maps. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. €78. 978 3 447 10280 3;
Urlacher-Becht, Céline, Ennode de Pavie, chantre officiel de l’Église de Milan. (Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 198.) Pp. 511. Turnhout: Brepols/Paris Institut d’études Augustiniennes, 2014. €66 (paper). 978 2 85121 272 6;
Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Akae, Yuichi, A mendicant sermon collection from composition to reception. The ‘Novum opus dominicale’ of John Waldeby, OESA. (Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 7.) Pp. xvi + 360 incl. map, 3 tables and 7 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. €90. 978 2 503 53034 5
Alberzoni, Maria Pia and Montaubin, Pascal (eds) (with Lucia Veronica Dell'Asta), Legati, delegati e l'impresa d'Oltremare (secoli XII–XIII). Papal legates, delegates and the Crusades (12th–13th century). (Ecclesia Militans 3. Histoire des hommes et des institutions de l’Église au moyen âge.) Pp. 494. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. €79 (paper). 978 2 503 55441 9
Bain, Emmanuel, Église, richesse et pauvreté dans l'Occident medieval. L'exégèse des Évangiles aux XIIe–XIIIe siècles. (Collection d'études médiévales de Nice, 16.) Pp. 475. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. €60 (paper). 978 2 503 55296 5
Barton, Thomas W., Contested treasure. Jews and authority in the crown of Aragon. (Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, 1.) Pp. xix + 292 incl. 3 maps. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. $69.95. 978 0 271 06472 7
Burton, Janet and Stöber, Karen, Abbeys and priories of medieval Wales. Pp. xvii + 260 incl. 4 maps and 65 ills + errata and 20 colour plates. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015. £24.99 (paper). 978 1 78316 179 9; 978 1 78316 180 5
Camp, Cynthia Turner, Anglo-Saxon saints’ Lives as history writing in late medieval England. Pp. xiii + 246. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. £60. 978 1 84384 402 0
Clarke, Peter D. and Zutshi, Patrick N. R. (eds), Supplications from England and Wales in the registers of the apostolic penitentiary, 1410–1503, III: 1492–1503. (Canterbury and York Society, 105.) Pp. xv + 396 (incl. indices to vols i–iii by Kelcey Wilson-Lee and Patrick N. R. Zutshi). Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2015. £35. 978 0 907239 78 9;
Demaris, Sarah Glenn (ed.), Johannes Meyer. Das Amptbuch. (Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica, 31.) Pp. xxxii + 538 incl. 30 colour ills. Rome: Angelicum University Press, 2015. €65 (paper). 97888 88660 66 0
Denton, J. H. and Hoskin, Philippa M. (eds), Coventry and Lichfield, 1215–1256. (English Episcopal Acta, 43.) Pp. cxv + 352 + 4 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2014. £90. 978 0 19 726577 2
Denton, J. H. and Hoskin, Philippa M. (eds), Coventry and Lichfield, 1258–1295. (English Episcopal Acta, 44.) Pp. xxxiii + 542. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2014. £100. 978 0 19 726578 9
Devaney, Thomas, Enemies in the plaza. Urban spectacle and the end of Spanish frontier culture, 1460–1492. (The Middle Ages Series.) Pp. x + 246 incl. 1 map and 5 figs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. £39 ($59.95). 978 0 8122 4713 8
Discenza, Nicole Guenther and Szarmach, Paul E. (eds), A companion to Alfred the Great. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 58.) Pp. xiv + 469 incl. 1 plate and 15 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €168. 978 04 27484 6;
Flint, Bill, Edith the Fair. Visionary of Walsingham. Pp. xliv + 187 incl. 4 figs. Leominster: Gracewing, 2015. £9.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 870 0
Gasper, Giles E. M. and Gullbekk, Svein H. (eds), Money and the Church in medieval Europe, 1000–1200. Practice, morality and thought. (Religion and Money in the Middle Ages.) Pp. xii + 292 + 21 black-and-white and colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 4724 2099 2
Gertsman, Elina, Worlds within. Opening the medieval shrine Madonna. Pp. xvii + 268 incl. frontispiece and 140 black-and-white and colour ills. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. £79.95. 978 0 271 06401 7
Grellard, Christophe and Lauchard, Frédérique (eds), A companion to John of Salisbury. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 57.) Pp. xi + 466. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €169. 978 04 26510 3;
Hoskin, Philippa M. (ed.), Robert Grosseteste as bishop of Lincoln. The episcopal rolls, 1235–1253. (Kathleen Major Series of Medieval Records.) Pp. lxxvi + 525. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Lincoln Record Society), 2015. £60. 978 0 901503 99 2
Hudson, Anne, Doctors in English. A study of the Wycliffite gospel commentaries. (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Pp. cliv + 116 incl. 5 frontispieces. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. £75. 978 1 78138 131 1
Jamme, D'Armand (ed.), Le Souverain, l'office et le codex. Gouvernement de la cour et techniques documentaires à travers les libri officiariorum des papes d'Avignon (XIVe–XVe siècle). (Sources et documents 3.) Pp. vii + 494 incl. 21 black-and-white and 30 colour figs. Rome: École française de Rome, 2014. €68. 978 2 7283 0949 8
Jullien, Florence (ed.), Histoire de Mar Abba, catholicos de l'Orient. Martyres de Mar Grigor, général en chef du roi Khusro Ier et de Mar Yazd-panah, juge et gouverneur. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 658. Scriptores Syri, 254.) Pp. lviii + 89. Louvain: Peeters, 2015. €76 (paper). 978 90 429 3222 7;
Jullien, Florence (commentary and translation), Histoire de Mar Abba, catholicos de l'Orient. Martyres de Mar Grigor, général en chef du roi Khusro Ier et de Mar Yazd-panah, juge et gouverneur. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 659. Scriptores Syri, 255.) Pp. xlvii + 99. Louvain: Peeters, 2015. €78 (paper). 978 90 429 3223 4;
Kelly, S. E. (ed.), Charters of Chertsey Abbey. (Anglo-Saxon Charters, 19.) Pp. xxi + 194. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2015. £45. 978 0 19 726556 7
Korobeinikov, Dimitri, Byzantium and the Turks in the thirteenth century. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xxi + 372 incl. map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. £80. 978 0 19 870826 1
Kotecki, Radosław and Maciejewski, Jacek (eds), Ecclesia et violentia. Violence against the Church and violence within the Church in the Middle Ages. Pp. xiii + 360. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2014. £52.99. 978 1 4438 6659 0
Lauwers, Michel (ed.), Monachisme et espace social. Genèse et transformation d'un système de lieux dans l'Occident medieval. (Collection d'études médiévales de Nice, 15.) Pp. 620 incl. 66 black-and-white ills + 36 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. €75 (paper). 978 2 503 53581 4
Mayer, Thomas F., The Roman Inquisition. Trying Galileo. Pp. viii + 354. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. £58.50 ($89.95). 978 0 8122 4655 1
Molyneaux, George, The formation of the English kingdom in the tenth century. Pp. xv + 302 incl. 5 maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £65. 978 0 19 871791 1
Papademetriou, Tom, Render unto the sultan. Power, authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the early Ottoman centuries. Pp. xv + 256 incl. 2 tables and 9 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £60. 978 0 19 87189 8
Penn, Michael Philip, When Christians first met Muslims. A sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on Islam. Pp. xix + 254. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2015. £24.95 (paper). 978 0 520 28493 7; 978 0 520 28494 4
Perry, David M., Sacred plunder. Venice and the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Pp. xiii + 233 incl. 3 maps and 6 figs. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. £69.95. 978 0 271 06507 6
Riches, Samantha, St George. A saint for all. Pp. 158 incl. 34 ills. London: Reaktion Books, 2015. £14.95. 078 1 78023 451 9
Rosser, Gervase, The art of solidarity in the Middle Ages. Guilds in England, 1250–1550. Pp. xiv + 235 incl. 8 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £60. 978 0 19 82057 1
Rucquoi, Adeline, Mille fois à Compostelle. Pèlerins du moyen âge. (Collection Realia.) Pp. 450. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014. €25.50 (paper). 978 2 251 33841 5
Scarcez, Alicia, Liturgie et musique à l'abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame de la Fille-Dieu (Romont). Histoire et catalogue des sources de sept siècles de vie chorale. (Spicileghii Friburgensis Subsidia, 25.) Pp. 239 incl. 70 colour ills. Fribourg: Academic Press Fribourg, 2015. CHF49 (paper). 978 2 8721 1093 3
Tieszen, Charles, A textual history of Christian-Muslim relations. Seventh–fifteenth centuries. Pp. xii + 268. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. £29.99 (paper). 978 1 4514 9026 8
Uthemann, Karl-Heinz, Anastasios Sinaites. Byzantinisches Christentum in den ersten Jahrzehnten unter arabischer Herrschaft. 2 vols. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 125/1, 125/2.) Pp. xxiii + 582, xix + 583–946. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2015. €199.95. 97 3 11 033240 7;
Wagshal, David, Law and legality in the Greek East. The Byzantine canonical tradition, 381–883. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xx + 331. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £75. 978 0 19 872260 1
Wenzel, Siegfried, Medieval artes pradicandi. A synthesis of scholastic sermon structure. (Medieval Academy Books, 114.) Pp. xviii + 133. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (for the Medieval Academy of America), 2015. $45. 978 1 4426 5010 7
Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe
Asch, Ronald G., Sacral kingship between disenchantment and re-enchantment. The French and English monarchies, 1587–1688. (Studies in British and Imperial History, 2.) Pp. x + 278. New York–Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. £60. 978 1 78238 356 7
Bernhard, Jan-Andrea, Konsolidierung des reformierten Bekenntnisses im Reich der Stephanskrone. Ein Beitrag zur Kommunikationsgeschichte zwischen Ungarn und der Schweiz in der frühen Neuzeit (1500–1700). (Refo500 Academic Studies, 19.) Pp. 800 incl. 3 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. €99.99. 978 3 525 55070 0
Dawson, Jane, John Knox. Pp. x + 373 incl. 2 maps + 11 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2015. 978 0 300 11473 7
De Ribadeneira, Pedro (trans. Pavur, Claude), The life of Ignatius of Loyola. (Jesuit Primary Sources in English Translation, I, 28.) Pp. xxxi + 483. Saint Louis, Mi: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2014. $34.95 (paper). 978 1 880810 83 2
Desilva, Jennifer Mara (ed.), The sacralization of space and behavior in the early modern world. Studies and sources. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. x + 334 incl. 18 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £75. 978 1 4724 1826 5
Firpo, Massimo, Juan de Valdés and the Italian reformation. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. xvi + 261. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 4724 3977 2
Graney, Christopher M., Setting aside all authority. Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the science against Copernicus in the age of Galileo. Pp. xv + 271 incl. 47 figs and 4 tables. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. $29 (paper). 978 0 268 02988 3
Harmes, Marcus and Bladen, Victoria (eds), Supernatural and secular power in early modern England. Pp. xi + 237. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 4724 2940 7
Hutchinson, Mark A., Calvinism, reform and the absolutist state in Elizabethan Ireland. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xiii + 219. London–Brookfield, Vt: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. £60. 978 1 84893 548 8
Jackson, Ken, Shakespeare and Abraham. Pp. xii + 172. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. $27 (paper). 978 0 268 03271 4
Krause, Virginia, Witchcraft, demonology, and confession in early modern France. Pp. xi + 191 incl. 8 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £95. 978 1 107 07440 8
Luebke, David M., Jared Poley, Daniel C.Ryan, and Sabean, David Warren (eds), Conversion and the politics of religion in early modern Germany. (Spektrum, 3.) Pp. ix + 206. New York–Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. £75. 978 0 85745 375 4
Maryks, Robert Aleksander (ed.), A companion to Ignatius of Loyola. Life, writings, spirituality, influence. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 52.) Pp. xiv + 345 incl. 1 map and 13 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €154. 978 90 04 25113 7;
Munns, Jessica, Richards, Penny and Spangler, Jonathan (eds), Aspiration, representation and memory. The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688. Pp. xv + 201 incl. frontispiece + 9 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 4724 1934 7
Nellen, Henk, Hugo Grotius. A lifelong struggle for peace in Church and State, 1583–1645. (Trans. by J. C. Grayson of Hugo de Groot, een leven in strijd om de vrede, 1483–1645, Amsterdam: Balans, 2007.) Pp. xxxii + 827 incl. 124 ills + 130 colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €199. 978 90 04 27436 5
Powell, Hunter, The crisis of British Protestantism. Church power in the Puritan revolution, 1638–44. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. viii + 264. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. £70. 978 0 7190 9634 1
Roberts, S. Bryn, Puritanism and the pursuit of happiness. The ministry and theology of Ralph Venning, c.1621–1674. Pp. xvii + 214 incl. 2 maps and 2 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. £65. 978 1 84383 978 1
Salas, Victor M. and Fastiggi, Robert L. (eds), A companion to Francisco Suárez. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 53.) Pp. xii + 383. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €149. 978 90 04 28158 5;
Sobecki, Sebastian, Unwritten verities. The making of England's vernacular legal culture, 1463–1549. (Reformations Medieval and Early Modern.) Pp. x + 258. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. $38 (paper). 978 0 268 04145 8
Suerbaum, Almut, Southcombe, George and Thomspon, Benjamin (eds), Polemic. Language as violence in medieval and early modern discourse. Pp. x + 292. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £75. 978 1 4724 2506 5
Van den Brink, Gijsbert and Höpfl, Harro M. (eds), Calvinism and the making of the European mind. (Studies in Reformed Theology, 27.) Pp. viii + 266. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €55 (paper). 978 90 04 27983 4;
Van Santen, Leo, Bremen als Brennpunkt reformierter Irenik. Eine sozialgeschichtliche Darstellung anhand der Biografie des Theologen Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655). (Brill's Series in Church History, 69.) Pp. xxix + 447 incl. 1 ill. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €168. 978 90 04 28102 8;
Modern Europe
Busch, Eberhard, Barth. Ein Porträt in Dialogen. Von Luther bis Benedikt XVI. Pp. 307 incl. 15 ills. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2015. €39.90 (paper). 978 3 290 17781 2
Dawes, Helena, Catholic women's movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements.) Pp. viii + 283 incl. 5 tables. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £60. 978 1 137 40633 0
Houlihan, Patrick J., Catholicism and the Great War. Religion and everyday life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914–1922. (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, 42.) Pp. xiii + 287 incl. 11 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £65. 978 1 107 03514 0
Ianova, Faina (ed.), East-West. In memory of Sergei Hackel. A Russian priest and English scholar. Pp. xvi + 99 incl. 23 black-and-white and colour ills. Leicester: Christians Aware, 2014. £8 plus £3 post + packing from Christians Aware, 2 Saxby Street, Leicester LE2 0ND. 978 8 733724 94 3
Moses, John A., The reluctant revolutionary. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's collision with Prusso-German history. (First publ. 2009: rev. ante lxi. 662–3.) Pp. xxi + 301. New York–Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. £22 (paper). 978 1 84545 531 6; 978 1 78238 340 6
Mutch, Alistair, Religion and national identity. Governing Scottish Presbyterianism in the eighteenth century. Pp. xviii + 264 incl. 3 figs and 24 tables. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. £70. 978 0 7486 9915 5
Pereiro, James, Theories of development in the Oxford Movement. Pp. vii + 198. Leominster: Gracewing, 2015. £14.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 825 0
Proctor, Robert, Building the modern Church. Roman Catholic church architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975. (Studies in Architecture.) Pp. xxiv + 371 incl. 196 ills and 16 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £60. 978 1 4094 4915 7
Shantz, Douglas H. (ed.), A companion to German Pietism, 1660–1800. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 55.) Pp. xiii + 571 incl. 13 black-and-white and colour figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €172. 978 90 04 22609 8;
Sirota, Brent S., The Christian monitors. The Church of England and the age of benevolence, 1680–1730. (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History.) Pp. x + 360. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2014. £45. 978 0 300 16710 8
Spence, Martin (foreword David W. Bebbington), Heaven on earth. Reimagining time and eternity in nineteenth-century British Evangelicalism. Pp. xv + 307. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2015. $36 (paper). 978 1 62032 259 8
Thomas, Martin, English cathedral music and liturgy in the twentieth century. Pp. xvii + 265 incl. 5 tables and 20 music examples. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £65. 978 1 4724 2630 7
Watts, Michael R., The dissenters, II: The crisis and conscience of nonconformity. Pp. xviii + 493 incl. 101 tables. Oxford: Clarendon, 2014. £85. 978 0 19 822969 8
Webster, Peter, Archbishop Ramsey. The shape of the Church. (The Archbishops of Canterbury Series.) Pp. xi + 255. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 0 7546 6589 2; 978 0 7546 6596 0
Yamaguchi, Midori, Daughters of the Anglican clergy. Religion, gender and identity in Victorian England. (Genders and Sexualities in History.) Pp. xiii + 324 incl. 28 ills, 9 figs and 6 tables. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. £68. 978 1 230 35407 4
Africa, Asia and Australasia
Bauman, Chad M., Pentecostals, proselytization, and anti-Christian violence in contemporary India. (Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity.) Pp. x + 208 incl. map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 19 020209 5; 978 0 19 020210 1
Chan, Chung-Yan Joyce (foreword William H. Brackney), William Dean and the first Chinese Bible. Pp. xxi + 279 incl. 6 frontispieces. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press/Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies, 2014. $35 (paper). 978 0 88146 486 3
Murdoch, Norman H. (foreword N. M. Bhebe), Christian warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891–1991. Pp. xxxi + 218 incl. 22 ills. Eugene, Or: Pickwick, 2015. $28 (paper). 978 1 62564 681 1
O'Brien, Glen and Carey, Hilary M. (eds), Methodism in Australia. A history. (Ashgate Methodist Studies.) Pp. xix + 308. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £70. 978 1 4724 2948 3
Reynaud, Daniel (foreword Michael McKernan), The man the Anzacs revered. William Fighting Mac McKenzie, Anzac chaplain. Pp. vii + 264 incl. frontispiece + 16 plates. Warburton, Australia: Signs Publishing, 2015. $24.95 (paper). 978 1 925044 16 4
The Americas
Beneke, Chris and Grenda, Christopher S. (eds) (foreword Jon Butler), The lively experiment. Religious toleration in American from Roger Williams to the present. Pp. xv + 342. Lanham, Md: Roman & Littlefield, 2015. £39.95. 978 1 4422 4872 4
Bremer, Francis J., Lay empowerment and the development of Puritanism. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–1800.) Pp. viii + 239. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. £60. 978 1 137 35288 0
Darden, Robert, Nothing but love in God's water, I: Black sacred music from the civil war to the Civil Rights Movement. Pp. xiv + 114 incl. 7 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. $34.95. 978 0 271 05084 3
Gilpin, W. Clark, Religion around Emily Dickinson. (Religion Around, 2.) Pp. x + 201 incl. frontispiece. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. $34.95. 978 0 271 06476 5
McMullen, Josh, Under the big top. Big tent revivalism and American culture, 1885–1925. Pp. xi + 229 incl. 7 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £47.99. 978 0 19 939786 0
Snape, Michael, God and uncle Sam. Religion and America's armed forces in World War II. Pp. xxiv + 704 + 32 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2015. £30. 978 1 84383 892 0
Tipson, Baird, Hartford Puritanism. Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and their terrifying God. (Oxford Studies, in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvii + 476. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £47.99. 978 0 19 021252 0
Van Engen, Abram C., Sympathetic Puritans. Calvinist fellow feeling in early New England. (Religion in America.) Pp. xii + 311. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £47.99. 978 0 19 937963 7
General : Modern world
Hartch, Todd, The prophet of Cuernavaca. Ivan Illich and the crisis of the West. Pp. xiii + 235. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £19.99. 978 0 19 020456 3
MacDougall, Scott, More than communion. Imagining an eschatological ecclesiology. (Ecclesiological Investigations, 20.) Pp. ix + 290. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015. £70. 978 0 567 65988 0
Maryks, Robert A. and Wright, Jonathan (eds), Jesuit survival and restoration. A global history, 1773–1900. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 178.) Pp. xxi + 530 incl. 24 black-and-white and 2 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €154. 978 90 04 28238 4;
Williams, Reggie L., Bonhoeffer's black Jesus. Harlem renaissance theology and an ethic of resistance. Pp. xii + 184. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2014. £33.50 978 1 60258 805 9
Zimmermann, Nigel (ed.), The great race. Receiving Vatican II today. Pp. xvi + 143. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015. £70. 978 0 567 65731 2