General

Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi, The ten lost tribes. A world history. Pp. x+302 incl. 4 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £16.99. 978 0 19 530733 7

Guiver, George, Vision upon vision. Processes of change and renewal in Christian worship. Pp. vii+257 incl. 3 ills+12 plates. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009. £21.99 (paper). 978 1 85311 992 7

Hammer, Olav (ed.), Alternative Christs. Pp. x+305. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £55. 978 0 521 88902 5

MacCulloch, Diarmaid, The history of Christianity. The first three thousand years. Pp. xxi+1161 incl. 25 maps+68 black-and-white and colour plates. London: Allen Lane (Penguin), 2009. £35. 978 0 713 99869 6

Marlow, Hilary, Biblical prophets and contemporary environmental ethics. Re-reading Amos, Hosea, and First Isaiah. Pp. xvi+338. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £65. 978 0 19 956905 2

Ancient world

Aasgaard, Reidar, The childhood of Jesus. Decoding the apocryphal infancy gospel of Thomas. Pp. xii+283. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2009. $33 (paper). 978 1 60608 126 6

Aland, Barbara, Was ist Gnosis? Studien zum frühen Christentum, zu Marcion und zur kaiserzeitlichen Philosophie. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 239.) Pp. xv+444. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €119. 978 3 16 149967 8; 0512 1604

Alciati, Roberto, Monaci, vescovi e scuola nella Gallia tardoantica. (Temi e Testi, 72. Studi di Storia del Christianesimo.) Pp. xi+275+errata. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2009. €39 (paper). 978 88 6372 083 9

BeDuhn, Jason David, Augustine's Manichaean dilemma, I: Conversion and apostasy, 373–388 C.E. (Divinations. Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. viii+402. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010(9). £45 ($69.96). 978 0 8122 4210 2

Bradshaw, Paul F., Reconstructing early Christian worship. Pp. viii+151. London: SPCK, 2009. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 281 06094 8

Corrigan, Kevin, Evagrius and Gregory. Mind, soul and body in the 4th century. (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity.) Pp. x+245. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £55. 978 0 7546 1685 6

Edwards, Mark, Catholicity and heresy in the early Church. Pp. v+201. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £60. 978 0 7546 6291 4; 978 0 7546 6297 6

Förstel, Karl, Schriften zum Islam von Arethas und Euthymios Zigabenos und Fragmente der griechischen Koranübersetzung. (Corpus Islamo-Christianum, 7.) Pp. 132. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. €36 (paper). 978 3 447 05904 6; 1868 3479

Hovhanessian, Vahan S. (ed.), Exegesis and hermeneutics in the Churches of the east. Select papers from the SBL meeting in San Diego, 2007. Pp. vii+175. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. £44.50. 978 1 4331 0495 4

Jacobsen, Anders-Christian (ed.), The discursive fight over religious texts in antiquity. (Acta Jutlandica Theological Ser. Religion and Normativity, 1.) Pp. 207 incl. 2 ills and 4 maps. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009. Dan.Kr.198. 978 87 7934 427 5; 0065 1354; 0106 0945

Kaldellis, Anthony, The Christian parthenon. Classicism and pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens. Pp. xvi+252 incl. frontispiece and 36 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £55. 978 0 521 88228 6

Lattke, Michael (trans. Marianne Ehrhardt, ed. Harold W. Attridge), The odes of Solomon. A commentary. (Hermeneia. A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible.) Pp. xxxviii+678. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009. £55.99. 978 0 8006 6056 7

McLynn, Neil, Christian politics and religious culture in late antiquity. (Collected Studies, 928.) Pp. xii+320. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £70. 978 0 7546 5992 1

Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the transformation of divine simplicity. Pp. xxi+261. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £55. 978 0 19 957411 7

Reutter, Ursula, Damasus Bischof von Rom (366–384). (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 55.) Pp. xi+571. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €89 (paper). 978 3 16 149848 0; 1436 3003

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Bériou, Nicole and Philippe Josserand (eds), Prier et combattre. Dictionnaire européen des orders militaires au moyen âge. Pp. 1029 incl. 56 ills+8 colour plates. Paris: Fayard, 2009. €180. 978 2 213 62720 5

Bultot-Verleysen, Anne-Marie, Ordon de Cluny. Vita sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis. Édition critique, traduction française, introduction et commentaires. (Subsidia hagiographica, 89.) Pp. xviii+332. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 2009. €75 (paper). 978 2 87365 023 0; 0777 8112

Connolly, Daniel K., The maps of Matthew Paris. Medieval journeys through space, time and liturgy. Pp. xiii+224+10 colour and 48 black-and-white plates. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. £50. 978 1 84383 478 6

Cotts, John D., The clerical dilemma. Peter of Blois and literate culture in the twelfth century. Pp. xiii+320. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. $74.95. 978 0 8132 1676 8

Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, Hildegard of Bingen and her gospel homilies. Speaking new mysteries. (Medieval Women. Texts and Contexts, 12.) Pp. xvi+340. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €70. 978 2 503 51777 3

Legg, Katrina J. (ed.), The lost cartulary of Bolton priory. An edition of the Coucher book and charters. (Record Ser., 160.) Pp. xxxiv+335. Woodbridge: Boydell (for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society), 2009. £50. 978 1 903564 16 5

Millet, Hélèn, L'Église du Grand Schisme, 1378–1417. (Les Médiévalistes français, 9.) Pp. 272. Paris: Picard, 2009. €34 (paper). 978 2 7084 0848 8

Müller, Barbara, Führung im Denken und Handeln Gregors des Grossen. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 57.) Pp. x+479. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €84 (paper). 978 3 16 149534 2; 1436 3003

Orme, Nicholas, Exeter cathedral. The first thousand years, 400–1550. Pp. xii+244 incl. 81 ills. Exeter: Impress Books, 2009. £14.99 (paper). 978 0 9556239 8 1

Pfaff, Richard W., The liturgy in medieval England. A history. Pp. xxviii+593. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £75. 978 0 521 80847 7

Rorem, Paul, Hugh of Saint Victor. (Great Medieval Thinkers.) Pp. xiii+235. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £17.99 (paper). 978 0 19 538436 9; 978 0 19 538437 6

Taylor, Larissa Juliet, The virgin warrior. The life and death of Joan of Arc. Pp. xxv+251 incl. 11 maps+26 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £20. 978 0 300 11458 4

Vose, Robin, Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the medieval crown of Aragon. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th Ser.) Pp. xv+294 incl. 2 maps and 2 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £55. 978 0 521 88643 7

Whalen, Brett Edward, Dominion of God. Christendom and apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Pp. vii+328 incl. 6 ills. Cambridge, Ma–London: Harvard University Press, 2009. £22.95. 978 0 674 03629 1

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Arnold, Claus, Die römische Zensur der Werke Cajetans und Contarinis (1558–1601). Grenzen der theologischen Konfessionalisierung. (Römische Inquisition und Indexkongregation, 10.) Pp. 454. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2008. €50. 978 3 506 76437 9

Arnold, Matthieu (ed.), Johannes Sturm (1507–1589). (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 46.) Pp. ix+438. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €99. 978 3 16 149917 3; 1865 2840

Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis, Strangers and pilgrims. Travellers and sojourners. Leiden and the foundations of the Plymouth plantation. Pp. xxxii+893 incl. frontispiece and 702 ills. Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2009. $55. O0 930270 45 2

Barratt, Alexandra, Anne Bulkeley and her book. Fashioning female piety in early Tudor England. A study of London, British Library, MS Harley 494. (Texts and Transitions. Studies in the History of Manuscripts and Printed Books, 2.) Pp. xii+275 incl. 6 figs and 4 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. €70. 978 2 503 52071 1

Bethencourt, Francisco, The inquisition. A global history, 1478–1834. (Past and Present Publications.) (Trans. of L'Inquisition à l'époque moderne, Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1995.) Pp. xii+491 incl. 40 plates, 3 maps and 11 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £65 (cloth), £22.99 (paper). 978 0 521 84793 3; 978 0 521 74823 0

Black, Christopher F., The Italian inquisition. Pp. xviii+330 incl. 3 maps. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £35. 978 0 300 11706 6

Brady, Thomas A., Jr, German histories in the age of reformations, 1400–1650. Pp. xviii+477 incl. 22 figs, 5 maps and 6 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £60 (cloth), £17.99 (paper). 978 0 521 88909 4; 978 0 521 71778 6

Bray, Xavier (ed.) (with Alfonso Rodriquez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone), The sacred made real. Spanish painting and sculpture, 1600–1700. Pp. 208 incl. 185 colour plates. London: National Gallery/Yale University Press, 2009. £15. 978 1 85709 422 0; 978 1 85709 448 0

Bhreathnach, Edel, Joseph MacMahon and John McCafferty (eds), The Irish Franciscans, 1534–1990. Pp. xviii+413 incl. 6 maps and 14 figs+45 colour plates. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009. £50 (cloth), £24.95 (paper). 978 1 84682 209 4; 978 1 84682 210 0

Buchanan, Colin (ed.), The Hampton court conference and the 1604 Book of Common Prayer with related documents, introduction and annotation. (Joint Liturgical Studies, 68.) Pp. 60. St Mary's Plain, Norwich: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 2009. £5.95 (paper). 978 1 84825 008 6; 0951 2667

Campi, Emidio and Ruedi Reich (eds), Consensus Tigurinus (1549). Die Einigung zwischen Heinrich Bullinger und Johannes Calvin über das Abendmahl. Werden – Wertung – Bedeutung. Pp. viii+401 incl. 49 ills. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2009. €32.52. 978 3 290 17515 3

Chapman, Alister, John Coffey and Brad S. Gregory (eds), Seeing things their way. Intellectual history and the return of religion. Pp. vii+267. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. $39 (paper). 978 0 268 02298 3

Close, Christopher W., The negotiated Reformation. Imperial cities and the politics of urban reform, 1525–1550. Pp. xii+284 incl. 2 maps. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $90. 978 0 521 76020 1

Dingel, Irene (ed.), Justus Jonas (1493–1555) und seine Bedeutung für die Wittenberger Reformation. (Leucorea-Studien zur Geschichte der Reformation und der Lutherischen Orthodoxie (LStRLO), 11.) Pp. 228. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2009. €38. 978 3 374 02724 8

Dixon, C. Scott, Dagmar Freist and Mark Greengrass (eds), Living with religious diversity in early modern Europe. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiii+310 incl. 8 tables and 20 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £60. 978 0 7546 6668 4

Farel, Guillaume (ed. Reinhard Bodenmann, Françoise Briegel and Oliver Labarthe), Traité Messins, I: Oraison très dévote 1542. Forme d'oraison 1545. (Œuvres Imprimées, 1.) Pp. xxxiv+411 incl. 4 ills. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2009. €60.72. 978 2 600 01328 4; 0082 6081

Forcellino, Antonio, Michelangelo. A tormented life. (Trans. by Allan Cameron of Michelangelo. Una vita inquieta, Guis. Laterza & Figli, 2005.) Pp. viii+344 incl. 2 figs+42 black-and-white and colour plates. Cambridge–Malden, Ma: Polity Press, 2009. £20. 978 0 7456 4005 1

Grendler, Paul F., The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Pp. xiii+287 incl. 4 maps, 2 genealogical charts and 13 figs. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. £31. 978 0 8018 9171 7

Gunn, Steven and Linda Monckton (eds), Arthur Tudor, prince of Wales. Life, death and commemoration. Pp. xii+193 including 55 ills+10 colour plates. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. £50. 978 1 84383 480 9

Hinlicky, Paul R., Paths not taken. Fates of theology from Luther through Leibniz. Pp. xiv+385. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2009. £32.99 (paper). 978 0 8028 4571 9

Hunter, Michael, Boyle. Between God and science. Pp. xiii+366 incl. 46 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2009. £25. 978 0 300 12381 4

Ives, Eric, Lady Jane Grey. A Tudor mystery. Pp. xx+367 incl. 5 figs and 1 map+29 ills. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. £19.99. 978 1 4051 9413 6

Luther, Martin (ed. Jun Matsuura), Erfurter Annotationen, 1509–1510/11. (Archiv zur Weimarer Ausgabe der Werke Martin Luthers. Texte und Untersuchungen, 9.) Pp. cclx+732. Cologne: Böhlau, 2009. €120. 978 3 412 20390 0

McDowell, Nicholas and Nigel Smith (eds), The Oxford handbook of Milton. Pp. xxii+715 incl. 2 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £85. 978 0 19 921088 6

Marshall, Peter, The Reformation. A very short introduction. Pp. xii+156 incl. 19 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 923131 7

Marshall, Peter and Geoffrey Scott (eds) (foreword David Starkey), Catholic gentry in English society. The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to emancipation. Pp. xvii+282 incl. frontispiece and 15 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £60. 978 0 7546 6432 1

Radano, John A., Lutheran and Catholic reconciliation and justification. A chronology of the Holy See's contributions, 1961–1999, to a new relationship between Lutherans and Catholics and to steps leading to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Pp. xxvii+217 inc. 9 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2009. £19.99 ($29) (paper). 978 0 8028 4860 4

Ross, Jan (ed.), The works of Thomas Traherne, II: Commentaries of heaven, i: Abhorrence to alone. Pp. xlii+536 incl. 1 plate. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. £75. 1 84384 135 7

Ross, Jan (ed.), The works of Thomas Traherne, III: Commentaries of heaven, ii: All-sufficient to bastard. Pp. x+532 incl. 1 plate. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. £75. 1 84384 136 4

Ross, Jan (ed.), The works of Thomas Traherne, IV: Church's year-book. A serious and pathetical contemplation of the mercies of God. (Meditations on the creation). Pp. liv+523 incl. 2 plates. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009. £75. 978 1 84384 196 8

Shadis, Miriam, Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and political women in the high Middle Ages. (The New Middle Ages.) Pp. xx+251 incl. 1 genealogical chart, 5 figs, 3 maps and 2 tables. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £37.99. 978 0 312 23473 7

Spener, Philipp Jakob (ed. Johannes Wallmann, with Klaus vom Orde), Briefe aus der Dresdner Zeit, 1686–1691, II: 1688. Pp. xxxv+651. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €179. 978 3 16 149175 7

Tyacke, Nicholas (ed.), The English revolution, c. 1590–1720. Politics, religion and communities. Pp. x+212 incl. frontispiece. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. £55. 978 0 7190 7707 4

Wendebourg, Dorothea, Essen zum Gedächtnis. Der Gedächtnisbefehl in den Abendmahlstheologien der Reformation. (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 148.) Pp. viii+272. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. €79. 978 3 16 149970 8; 0340 6741

Modern Europe

Arndt, Andreas (ed.), Wissenschaft und Geselligkeit. Friedrich Schleiermacher in Berlin, 1796–1802. Pp. xiii+145 incl. 2 maps, 7 ills and 1 table. Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. €14.95 (paper). 978 3 121 020349 3

Blaufuss, Dietrich (ed.), Wilhelm Löhe. Erbe und Vision. Loehe theological conference II Neuendettelsau 22. Bis 26. Juli 2008. (Die Lutherische Kirche – Geschichte und Gestalten, 26.) Pp. 381. Gütersloh: Gütersloher, 2009. €59.95 (paper). 978 3 579 05781 1

Cancik, Pascale, Thomas Henne, Thomas Simon, Stefan Ruppert and Miloš Vec (eds), Konfession im Recht. Auf der Suche nach konfessionell geprägten Denkmustern und Argumentationsstrategien in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts. (Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte. Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für europäische Rechtsgeschichte Frankfurt-am-Main, 247.) Pp. xiii+190. Frankfurt-am-Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2009. €49 (paper). 978 3 465 04081 1; 1610 6040

Duncan, Kathryn (ed.), Religion in the age of reason. A transatlantic study of the long eighteenth century. (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 53.) Pp. xx+233 incl. 5 ills, 4 tables and 3 figs. New York: AMS Press, 2009. $84.50. 978 0 404 64853 4; 0196 6561

Maiden, John, National religion and the Prayer Book controversy, 1927–1928. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 21.) Pp. xii+213. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. £50. 978 1 84383 521 9; 1464 6625

Molnar, Paul D., Thomas F. Torrance. Theologian of the Trinity. (Great Theologians.) Pp. viii+373. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. £55. 978 0 7546 5228 1; 978 0 7546 5229 8

Noel, Gerard, Pius XII. The hound of Hitler. Pp. v+220+4 plates. London–New York: Continuum, 2008. £14.99 (paper). 978 1 4411 3629 9

Pickering, W. S. F., Durkheim's sociology of religion. Themes and theories. (First publ. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.) Pp. xxv+577. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2009. £30 (paper). 978 0 227 17297 1

Purves, Maria, The gothic and Catholicism. Religion, cultural exchange and the popular novel, 1785–1829. (Gothic Literary Studies.) Pp. vii+228 incl. 2 figs. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009. £75. 978 0 7083 2091 4

Snape, Michael (ed.), The back parts of war. The YMCA memoirs and letters of Barclay Baron, 1915–1919. (Church of England Record Society, 16.) Pp. xiii+291+16 black-and-white plates. Woodbridge: Boydell (for the Church of England Record Society), 2009. £60. 978 1 84383 519 6; 1351 3087

Tastard, Terry, Ronald Knox and English Catholicism. Pp. xii+215 incl. frontispiece. Leominster: Gracewing, 2009. £12.99 (paper). 978 085244 250 0

Temperley, Nicholas, Studies in English church music, 1550–1900. (Collected Studies, 926.) Pp. ix+356 incl. 64 musical examples, 28 tables, 11 ills and 4 maps. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate/Variorum, 2009. £70. 978 0 7546 5998 3

Young, Richard Fox (ed.), India and the Indianness of Christianity. Essays on understanding – historical, theological, and bibliographical – in honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Pp. xi+283 incl. 2 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2009. £29.99 ($45) (paper). 867 0 8028 6392 8

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Vokes, Richard, Ghosts of Kanungu. Fertility, secrecy and exchange in the great lakes of East Africa. (African Anthropology.) Pp. xiv+240 incl. 3 maps and 24 ills. Kampala: Fountain Publishers/Woodbridge: James Currey, 2009. £55. 978 9970 02 732 3; 978 1 84701 009 4

The Americas

Heath, Gordon L., A war with a silver lining. Canadian Protestant Churches and the South African war, 1899–1902. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. 2nd Ser., 50.) Pp. xxvii+212 incl. 9 ills. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. £51. 978 0 7735 3480 3

Kimbro, Edna E. and Julia G. Costello (with Tevvy Ball), The California missions. History, art and preservation. Pp. vi+274 incl. 1 map, 100 black-and-white and 170 colour plates. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2009. £27.95 ($39.95). 978 0 89236 983 6

Langer, Erick D., Expecting pears from an elm tree. Franciscan missions on the Chiriguano frontier in the heart of South America, 1830–1949. Pp. xiv+376 incl. 1 map, 12 figs and 18 tables. Durham–London: Duke University Press, 2009. £77 (cloth), £18.99 (paper). 978 0 8223 4504 6

Ward, Patricia A., Experimental theology in America. Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and their readers. Pp. xvi+279 incl. frontispiece. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2009. £29.99. 978 1 60258 197 5

General: Modern world

Abraham, William J. and James E. Kirkby (eds), The Oxford handbook of Methodist studies. Pp. xvii+761. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £85. 978 0 19 921299 6

Caruana, Louis (ed.), Darwin and Catholicism. The past and present dynamics of a cultural encounter. Pp. xi+230. London–New York: T & T Clark, 2009. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 47631 9; 978 0 567 25672 0

De Niet, Johan, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet (eds), Sober, strict, and scriptural. Collective memories of John Calvin, 1800–2000. (Brill's Series in Church History, 38. Religious History and Culture, 2.) Pp. xiii+393 incl. 21 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009. €99. 978 90 04 17424 5

Kaye, Bruce, An introduction to world Anglicanism. Pp. x+276. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. £45 (cloth), £15.99 (paper). 978 0 5212 85345 3; 978 0 521 61866 3

Mettele, Gisela, Weltbürgertum oder Gottesreich. Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine als globale Gemeinschaft, 1727–1857. (Bürgertum Neue Folge. Studien zur Zivilgesellschaft, 4.) Pp. 335 incl. 10 ills. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. €44.90. 978 3 525 36844 2

Moyse, Cordelia (foreword Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, and Jane Williams), A history of the Mothers' Union. Women, Anglicanism and globalization, 1876–2008. (Studies in Modern Religious History, 20.) Pp. xvi+292+8 ills. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009. £50. 978 1 84383 513 4

Sachs, William L., Homosexuality and the crisis of Anglicanism. Pp. x+256. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $90. 978 0 521 85120 6

Smidt, Corwin E., Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth (eds), The Oxford handbook of religion and American politics. Pp. xi+586. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £85. 978 0 19 532652 9