This is part of a series presenting classic modern research articles on the interaction between That Old Devil Called Love and the great world religions; another volume rounds up both Judaism and Islam in roughly the same number of pages as this single treatment of Christianity, suggesting that Christians have been rather more loquacious about sex, or perhaps simply more divided, than their cousins in the other Religions of the Book. Two further volumes cover ‘New Religions and Spiritualities’ and ‘Religions of the East’; lastly there is ‘Indigenous Religions’, a catch-all formulation which is awkward, but represents a practical way of rounding up those religions which have not moved beyond their historic niches in a particular region towards the more plural and globally-dispersed identities described in the other volumes. This Christianity collection presents twenty-five articles spanning the last thirty years, grouped topically under Bible/exegesis, celibacy/asceticism, gender/patriarchy, worship and ‘Contesting hegemony and orthodoxy’, though since the field is so tangled and contentious, the editor will have been hard put it to decide how to pigeon-hole some of the contributions. Rowan Williams is here, in the innocent days when he could deliver relaxed explorations of a fluid future to the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement; there is Jack Dominian on sexuality and the family, Elizabeth Clark on early Christian froideur towards the family, Martyn Percy bringing rueful inside knowledge to the analysis of charismatic spirituality, and Martin Stringer, with equally rueful nostalgia, analysing campness in modern Anglo-Catholicism: a pity that he seems unaware of the wider historical background superbly excavated long before by David Hilliard (‘UnEnglish and unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and homosexuality’, Victorian Studies xxv [1982], 181–210). Susannah Cornwall in surveying the treatment of intersex in church documents on sexuality has more broadly applicable comments than her brief might suggest; they should make bishops of the Church of England hang their heads in shame and British Methodists rather pleased with themselves. Richard M. Price on celibacy in the early Church delivers himself of some acid sarcasm at the expense of modern clerical dogmaticians who do their best to ignore the sheer difference of the Church in earlier centuries, characterising them by reference to Mommsen's savage thrust: ‘people who are theologians, or if not theologians just like theologians, who chatter from their chains’. Aficionados of such debates will quickly recognise from this selection of contributions or from a perusal of the list of contents that the volume is a showcase for liberal scholarship; so for conservative Evangelicals or ultramontane Roman Catholics, caveat emptor. Otherwise, the one dissident voice from a different world comes from the Greek Orthodox Church, a less than enthusiastic discussion of assisted reproduction, with a censorious eye on contrary legislation passed by the Greek parliament; it is worth reading this document in conjunction with a shrewd earlier essay by the Orthodox convert Leonie B. Liveris on Orthodox attitudes to the ordination of women and issues of sexuality generally. Technically the text is admirably marshalled, with double numbering, for the volume itself and for the original, so that the reader might readily provide the original page reference for citations. Most of the contributions are in their original format, but all Greek has been transliterated.