General

Bebbington, David, Baptists through the centuries. A history of a global people. Pp. xii+315 incl. 16 ills. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2010. $39.95 (paper). 978 1 60258 204 0

Burgess, Stanley M. (ed.), Christian peoples of the spirit. A documentary history of Pentecostal spirituality from the early Church to the present. Pp. vii+311. New York–London: New York University Press, 2011. $79 (cloth), $25 (paper). 978 0 8147 9997 0; 9978 0 8147 9998 7

Clarke, Peter and Tony Claydon (eds), Saints and sanctity. (Studies in Church History, 47.) Pp. xxii+437 incl. 4 figs and 8 tables+ double-sided pull-out colour plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 2011. £45. 978 0 95468 098 5; 0424 2084

Cooper, Trevor and Sarah Brown (eds), Pews, benches and chairs. Church seating in English parish churches from the fourteenth century to the present. Pp. x+500 incl. frontispiece, 258 figs, 7 tables and 24 graphs. London: The Ecclesiological Society, 2011. £35 (paper). 978 0 946823 17 8

Kydd, Ronald A. N., Finding pieces of the puzzle. A fresh look at the Christian story. Pp. xii+271 incl. 21 figs. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2011. $31 (paper). 978 1 668 567 7

Linehan, Peter (ed.), St John's College, Cambridge. A history. Pp. xx+757 incl. frontispiece and 66 figs+23 colour plates. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011. £50. 978 1 84383 608 7

Middleton, Paul, Martyrdom. A guide for the perplexed. Pp. xii+209. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2011. £14.99 (paper). 978 0 567 03217 1; 978 0 567 03218 8

O'Donovan, Oliver, On the Thirty-Nine Articles. A conversation with Tudor Christianity. 2nd edn. Pp. xiv+160. London: SCM Press, 2011 (first publ. Paternoster, 1986). £16.99 (paper). 978 0 334 04398 0

Petersen, Nils Holger, Eyolf Østrem and Andreas Bücker (eds), Resonances. Historical essays on continuity and change. (Ritus et Artes. Traditions and Transformations, 5.) Pp. ix+266 incl. 12 figs and 4 colour plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €80. 978 2 503 53493 0

Waller, Gary, Walsingham and the English imagination. Pp. xii+237 incl 16 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £55. 978 1 4094 0509 2

Ancient world

Aragione, Gabriella and Enrico Norelli (eds), Des Évêques, des écoles et des hérétiques. Actes du colloque international sur la ‘Réfutation de toutes les heresies’ Genève, 13–14 juin 2008. Pp. 344. Lausanne: Éditions du Zèbre, 2011. €38 (paper). 978 2 940351 13 8

Bauckham, Richard, Jesus. A very short introduction. Pp. xiii+130 incl. 12 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £7.99 (paper). 978 0 19 957527 5

Decret, François (trans. Edward Smither), Early Christianity in north Africa. Pp. xii+228 incl. map. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2011 (first publ. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2009). £18 (paper). 978 0 227 17356 5

Duval, Yves-Marie and Patrick Laurence (eds), Jérôme. La lettre 22 à Eustochium. De uirginitate seruanda. (Vie Monastique, 47.) Pp. 382. Bégrolles en Mauges: Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 2011. €25 (paper). 978 2 85589 097 5; 0768 4215

Frakes, Robert M., Elizabeth DePalma Digeser and Justin Stephens (eds), The rhetoric of power in late antiquity. Religion and politics in Byzantium, Europe and the early Islamic world. (Library of Classical Studies.) Pp. xii+287+ colour frontispiece. London–New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. £65. 978 1 84885 409 3

Gemeinhardt, Peter (ed.), Athanasius Handbuch. Pp. xv+578 incl. 7 ills and 2 maps. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. €49 (paper). 978 3 16 150079 4; 978 3 16 150078 7

Jensen, Robin M., Living water. Images, symbols, and settings of early Christian baptism. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 105.) Pp. xxv+311 incl. 68 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €119. 978 90 04 18898 3; 0920 623x

Kelly, Christopher, Richard Flower and Michael Stuart Williams (eds), Unclassical traditions, II: Perspectives from east and west in late antiquity. (Cambridge Classical Journal Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary vol. 35.) Pp. vii+162. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2011. £45. 978 0 956838 10 0

Leithart, Peter J., Athanasius. (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality.) Pp. xvii+204. Grand Rapids, Mi: Baker Academic, 2011. $16.99 (paper). 978 0 8010 3942 3

Lieu, Samuel N. C. (ed.) (trans. Greg Fox and John Sheldon), Greek and Latin sources on Manichaean cosmogony and ethics. (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum. Series Subsidia, 6.) Pp. xxxviii+256. Turnhout: Brepols/New South Wales: Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University, 2010. €90. 978 2 503 51247 1

Oden, Thomas C., The African memory of Mark. Reassessing early church tradition. Pp. 279 incl. 4 maps, 2 tables and 2 figs. Downers Grove, Il: IVP Academic, 2011. $22 (paper). 978 0 8308 3933 9

Russo, Eugenio, Sullo cronologia del S. Giovannie e di altri monumenti paleocristiani di Efeso. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkshriften, 400. Archäologische Forshungen, 19.) Pp. 259 incl. 390 plates. Vienna: Verlag de Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010.) €76 (paper). 98 3 7001 6558 3

Schor, Adam M., Theodoret's people. Social networks and religious conflict in late Roman Syria. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 48.) Pp. xv+342 incl. 20 ills. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2011. £34.95. 978 0 520 26862 3

Wheatley, Alan B., Patronage in early Christianity. Its use and transformation from Jesus to Paul of Samosata. (Princeton Theological Monograph Ser., 159.) Pp. viii+204. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011. $23 (paper). 978 1 59752 587 9

Wills, Garry, Augustine's Confessions. A biography. (Lives of Great Religious Books.) Pp. ix+166. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. $19.95. 978 0 691 14357 6

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Andersen, Per (trans. Frederik Pedersen and Sarah Pedersen), Legal procedure and practice in medieval Denmark. (Medieval Law and its Practice, 11.) Pp. xiv+453 incl. 4 ills and 3 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €155. 978 90 04 20476 8

Berger, Teresa, Gender differences and the making of liturgical history. Lifting a veil on liturgy's past. (Liturgy, Worship and Society.) Pp. xix+220. Farnham–Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. £55. 978 1 4094 2699 8

Bourdua, Louise, The Franciscans and art patronage in late medieval Italy. (First publ. 2004: rev. ante lvi. 149–50.) Pp. xiv+242 incl. 74 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £61 (cloth), £24.99 (paper). 978 0 521 82158 2; 978 0 521 28128 7

Burton, Janet and Julie Kerr, The Cistercians in the Middle Ages. (Monastic Orders.) Pp. viii+244 incl. 1 map+4 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. £25. 978 1 84383 667 4

Clark, James G., The Benedictines in the Middle Ages. (Monastic Orders.) Pp. x+374+8 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £25. 978 1 84383 623 0

Dalton, Paul, Charles Insley and Louise J. Wilkinson (eds), Cathedrals, communities and conflict in the Anglo-Norman world. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 38.) Pp. xii+261 incl. 5 figs and 3 maps. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. £50. 97 1 84383 620 9; 0955 2480

Esch, Arnold, Zwischen Antike und Mittelalter. Der Verfall des römischen Strassensystems in Mittelitalien und die Via Amerina. Pp. 208 incl. 184 colour plates. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2011. €38. 978 3 406 62143 7

Foot, Sarah, Æthelstan. The first king of England. (English Monarchs.) Pp. xix+283 incl. 2 figs and 4 maps+19 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £30. 978 0 300 12535 1

Garner, Lori Ann, Structuring spaces. Oral poetics and architecture in early medieval England. (Poetics of Orality and Literacy.) Pp. xvi+367+32 plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $45 (paper). 978 0 268 0208 7

Haines, Roy Martin (ed.), The register of John de Stratford, bishop of Winchester, 1323–1333. 2 vols. (Surrey Record Society, 42, 43.) Pp. xxxiv+439 incl. frontispiece and map; iii+441–904. Woking: Surrey Record Society, 2010. £25. 978 0 902978 17 1; 978 0 902978 18 8

Halvorsen, Per Bjórn, Saint Dominique. Du cœur aux frontiers de l’Église. (L'Histoire à vif.) Pp. 363+30 colour plates. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €30 (paper). 978 2 204 09476 4; 0299 2833

Herbers, Klaus and Ingo Fleisch (eds), Erinnerung – Niederschrift – Nutzung. Das Papsttum und die Schriftlichkeit im mittelalterlichen Westeuropa. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. New Ser., 11. Studien zu Papstgeschichte und Papsturkunden.) Pp. ix+272 incl. 7 colour and 3 black-and-white ills. Berlin–New York: de Gruyter, 2011. €99.95. 978 3 11 025370 2

Kilcullen, John, John Scott, Jan Ballweg and Volker Leppin (eds), William of Ockham. Dialogus. Part 2. Part 3, Tract 1. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 20.) Pp. xxvi+371. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2011. £19.99. 978 0 10 726480 5

Krafl, Pavel, Petra Mutlová and Dana Stehliková, Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrounĕ. Dĕjiny a diplomatáštera. The regular canons of St. Augustine in Lanškroun. The history and diplomatarium of the monastery. Pp. 400 incl. 19 figs+38 colour plates. Prague: Institute of History, 2010. CZK 365. 978 80 7286 176 7

Lawell, Declan Anthony, Thomas Gallus. Explanatio in libros Dionysii. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 223.) Pp. xxxii+1,000+3 plates. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €450. 978 2 503 53359 9

Lawell, Declan Anthony, Thomas Gallus. Glose super angelica ierarchia. Accedunt indices ad Thomae Galli Opera. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 223A.) Pp. x+276. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €145. 978 2 503 54139 6

Lock, Peter (trans.), Marino Sanudo Torsello. The book of secrets of the faithful of the Cross. Liber secretorum fidelium crusis. (Crusade Texts in Translation.) Pp. vii+475. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £75. 978 0 7546 3059 3

McAvoy, Liz Herbert, Medieval anchoritisms. Gender, space and the solitary life. (Gender in the Middle Ages, 6.) Pp. x+201. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2011. £55. 98 1 84384 277 4

Mantello, F. A. C. and Joseph Goering (trans., intro. and anno.), The letters of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln. Pp. xviii+528. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2010. $135. 978 0 8020 9813 9

Nicolotti, Andrea, I Templari e la Sindone. Storia di un Falso. (Aculei, 3.) Pp. 187+4 plates. Rome: Salerno, 2011. 978 88 8402 720 7

O'Donoghue, Neil Xavier, The eucharist in pre-Norman Ireland. Pp. xv+352+20 plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $48 (paper). 978 0 268 03732

Robinson, David (ed.), The register of William Melton archbishop of York, 1317–1340. Vol. 6. (The Canterbury and York Society, 101.) Pp. x+281. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2011. £25. 978 0 907239 73 4; 0262 995X

Rubenstein, Jay, Armies of heaven. The First Crusade and the quest for apocalypse. Pp. xiv+385 incl. 12 ills+12 plates. New York: Basic Books, 2011. $35 (paper). 978 0 465 01929 8

Sackville, L. J., Heresy and heretics in the thirteenth century. The textual representations. (York Medieval Press.) Pp. xii+227. Woodbridge: Boydell (for York Medieval Press), 2011. £50. 978 1 903153 36 9

Taylor, John, Wendy R. Childs and Leslie Watkiss (ed. and trans.), The St Albans Chronicle. The Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham, II: 1394–1422. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Pp. c+888. Oxford: Clarendon, 2011. £165. 978 0 19 925346 3

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Appold, Kenneth G., The Reformation. A brief history. (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion, 35.) Pp. xi+203 incl. frontispiece. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011. £17.99 (paper). 978 1 4051 1749 4

Braun, Harald E. and Edward Vallance (eds), The Renaissance conscience. (Renaissance Studies Special Issues, 3.) Pp. x+164 incl. frontispiece. Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 4443 3566 8

Burnett, Amy Nelson, Karlstadt and the origins of the eucharistic controversy. A study in the circulation of ideas. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xviii+234. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 975399 4

Burnett, Amy Nelson (ed. and trans.), The eucharistic pamphlets of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt. (Early Modern Studies, 6.) Pp. xii+300 incl. 1 map and 5 figs. Kirksville, Mi: Truman State University Press, 2011. $39.95 (paper). 978 1 935503 16 3

Burnett, Amy Nelson (ed.), John Calvin, myth and reality. Images and impact of Geneva's reformer. Papers of the 2009 Calvin Studies Society colloquium. Pp. xvi+255. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2011. $30 (paper). 978 1 60899 693 3

Cummings, Brian (ed.), The Book of Common Prayer. The texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Pp. lxxiv+821 incl. 4 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £16.99. 978 0 19 920717 6

Doran, Susan and Thomas S. Freeman (eds), Mary Tudor. Old and new perspectives. Pp. xiv+345 incl. 1 map and 1 fig. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £19.99 (paper). 978 0 230 00462 7; 978 0 230 00463 4

Ettenhuber, Katrin, Donne's Augustine. Renaissance cultures of interpretation. Pp. xii+267. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 19 960910 9

Garcés, Maria Antonia (ed.) (trans. Diana de Armas Wilson), An early modern dialogue with Islam. Antonio de Sosa's ‘Topography of Algiers’ (1612). (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.) Pp. xxiii+400 incl. 2 figs+16 black-and-white and colour plates. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $45 (paper). 978 0 268 02978 4

Gibbons, Katy, English Catholic exiles in late sixteenth-century Paris. (Studies in History. New Ser., 79.) Pp. x+206. Woodbridge: Boydell (for the Royal Historical Society), 2011. £50. 978 0 86193 313 6; 0269 2244

Goldie, Mark (ed.), John Locke. ‘A letter concerning toleration’ and other writings. (The Thomas Hollis Library.) Pp. xlix+208 incl. frontispiece. Indianapolis, In: Liberty Fund, 2010. £15.95. 978 0 86597 790 7; 978 0 86597 791 4

Hegarty, Andrew, A biographical register of St John's College, Oxford, 1555–1660. (Oxford Historical Society. New Ser., 43.) Pp. lxxxiii+559. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press (for Oxford Historical Society), 2011. £45. 978 0 904107 24 1

Jackson, Ken and Arthur F. Marotti (eds), Shakespeare and religion. Early modern and postmodern perspectives. Pp. vi+306. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $48 (paper). 978 0 268 03270 8

Johnston, Warren, Revelation restored. The apocalypse in later seventeenth-century England. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 27.) Pp. xxi+293 incl. 12 ills. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011. £60. 978 1 84383 613 1; 1464 6625

McCullough, Peter, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan (eds), The Oxford handbook of the early modern sermon. Pp. xvi+608 incl. 30 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £95. 978 0 19 923753 1

Milner, Matthew, The senses and the English Reformation. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv+416. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £70. 978 0 7546 6642 4

Morrissey, Mary, Politics and the Paul's Cross sermons, 1558–1642. Pp. xiv+257 incl. 3 ills. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 19 957176 5

Mullett, Michael A., John Calvin. (Routledge Historical Biographies.) Pp. xiv+290+8 plates. London–New York: Routledge, 2011. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 415 47698 0; 978 0 415 47699 7

Parish, Richard, Catholic particularity in seventeenth-century French writing. Christianity is strange. Pp. ix+229. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £65. 978 0 19 959666 9

Poole, Kristen, Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England. Spaces of demonism, divinity, and drama. Pp. xv+289 incl. 15 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. 978 0 107 00835 9

Ransome, Joyce, The web of friendship. Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding. Pp. 291 incl. frontispiece and 11 ills. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2011. £25.50 (paper). 978 0 227 17348 0

Stronks, Els, Negotiating differences. Word, image and religion in the Dutch republic. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 155.) Pp. xx+347 incl. 91 ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 981 90 04 20423 2; 1573 4188

Rose, Jacqueline, Godly kingship in Restoration England. The politics of the royal supremacy, 1660–1688. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. x+320 incl. frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 107 01142 7

Visser, Arnoud S. Q., Reading Augustine in the Reformation. The flexibility of intellectual authority in Europe, 1500–1620. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xiii+240. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 976593 5

Wallace, Dewey D., Jr, Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660–1714. Variety, persistence, and transformation. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. x+358. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 974483 1

Wegemer, Gerard B., Young Thomas More and the arts of liberty. Pp. xi+210 incl. 7 ills. New York–Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55 ($85). 978 0 521 19653 6

Wright, Anthony D., The divisions of French Catholicism, 1629–1645. The parting of the ways. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700.) Pp. ix+216. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 1 4094 2084 2

Zlatar, Antoinina Bevan, Reformation fictions. Polemical Protestant dialogues in Elizabethan England. Pp. xiii+239 incl. 6 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 19 960469 2

Modern Europe

Backhouse, Roger E. and Tamotsu Nishizawa (eds), No wealth but life. Welfare economics and the welfare state in Britain, 1880–1945. Pp. xi+244. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. £55. 978 0 521 19786 1

Buffon, Giuseppe, Sulle trace di una storia Omessa. Storiografia moderna e contemporanea dell'ordine francescano. (Analecta Franciscana, 18. New Ser. Documenta et Studia, 6.) Pp. 272 incl. 16 figs. Grottaferrata: Frati Editori di Quaracchi, Fondazione Collegio S. Bonaventura, 2011. €35 (paper). 978 88 7013 282 3

Bugaevsky, Aleksandr, Добрый кормчий. Почитание святителя Николая в христианском мире. Pp. 598 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. Moscow: Skinija, 2011. 978 5 86544

Chovelon, Bernard and Bernadette Chovelon, Bruckberger l'enfant terrible. (L'Histoire à vif.) Pp. 286. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. €20 (paper). 978 2 204 09240 1; 0299 2833

Crimmins, James E. and Catherine Fuller (eds), Church-of-Englandism and its catechism examined. (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Religion and the Church.) Pp. xxx+652. Oxford: Clarendon, 2011. £85. 978 0 19 959025 4

Hamer, Edna, Elizabeth Prout, 1820–1864. A religious life for industrial England. (First publ. Bath: Downside Abbey, 1994: rev. ante xlvii. 757.). Pp. vi+362 incl. frontispiece and 12 ills. Leominster: Gracewing, 2011. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 171 8

Ives, Keith A., Voice of nonconformity. William Robertson Nicoll and the ‘British Weekly’. Pp. 323 incl. frontispiece and 22 ills. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2011. £23 (paper). 978 0 7188 9222 7

Kenworthy, Scott M., The heart of Russia. Trinity-Sergius, monasticism, and society after 1825. Pp. xv+528 incl. 14 tables and 26 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £45. 978 0 19 973613 3

Keogh, Dáire and Albert McDonnell (eds), Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world. Pp. 470 incl. 58 figs and 3 tables. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. £50. 978 1 84682 235 3

Murphy, Marian T., Elizabeth of the Trinity. Her life and spirituality. The vast triangled heart. Pp. xviii+140 incl. frontispiece and 15 ills. Leominster: Gracewing, 2011. £9.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 728 4

Reynolds, Christine (ed.), Surveyors of the fabric of Westminster Abbey, 1827–1906. Reports and letters. (Westminster Abbey Record Ser., 6.) Pp. xxvi+218 incl. 1 map. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011. £50. 978 1 84383 657 5; 1365 4306

Shaw, Jane, Octavia, daughter of God. The story of a female messiah and her followers. Pp. xviii+398+16 plates. London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. £18.99. 978 0 224 07500 8

Short, Edward, Newman and his contemporaries. Pp. xi+530 incl. frontispiece+16 plates. London: T&T Clark, 2011. £18.99 (paper). 978 0 567 02688 0; 978 0 567 02689 7

Thonemann, Helena Fyfe (comp.), I: Educated circles and their mode of reasoning. II: Lux Mundi. Essay VIII. Professor T. H. Huxley versus Charles Gore (bishop of Oxford, 1911–19). Pp. 94 incl. 2 frontispieces. Oxford: Helena Fyfe Thonemann, 2011. 978 0 9539405 3 0

Yeager, Jonathan M., Enlightened Evangelicalism. The life and thought of John Erskine. Pp. xii+321 incl. 10 figs and 6 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £45. 978 0 19 977255 1

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Englund, Harri (ed.), Christianity and public culture in Africa. (Cambridge Centre of African Studies.) Pp. ix+238. Athens, Oh: Ohio University Press, 2011. $49.95. 978 0 8214 1945 8

Sedra, Paul, From mission to modernity. Evangelicals, reformers and education in nineteenth-century Egypt. Pp. ix+246. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. £54.50. 978 1 84885 548 9

Sill, Ulrike, Encounters in quest of Christian womanhood. The Basel mission in pre- and early colonial Ghana. (Studies in Christian Mission, 39.) Pp. xvii+420. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2010. €130. 978 90 04 18888 4; 0924 9389

The Americas

Clark, Elizabeth A., Founding the Fathers. Early church history and Protestant professors in nineteenth-century America. (Divinations. Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. x+561. Philadelphia–Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. £45 ($69.96). 978 0 8122 4319 2

Cruz, Joel Morales, The Mexican reformation. Catholic pluralism, enlightenment religion, and the Iglesia de Jesús movement in Benito Juárez's Mexico (1859–72). Pp. xi+223 incl. 2 tables and 4 figs. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011. $26 (paper). 9781 61097 201 7

Mallory, Andrew Phillips, Saints, sinners and the God of the world. The Hartford Sermon Notebook transcribed, 1679–1680. (Numan Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions. Texts and Sources in the History of Religions, 133.) Pp. xi+340 incl. 11 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €126. 981 90 04 19242 3; 0169 8834

Minkema, Kenneth P., Adriaan C. Neele and Kelly van Andel (eds), Jonathan Edwards and Scotland. Pp. xx+202. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2011. £64. 978 1 906716 36 3

Robinson, James (foreword William K. Kay), Divine healing. The formative years, 1830–1890. Theological roots in the transatlantic world. Pp. xiv+311 incl. 11 ills. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011. £22 (paper). 978 1 61097 105 8

General: Modern world

Arnold, Claus and Giacomo Losito (eds), ‘Lamentabili sane exitu’ (1907). Les documents préparatoires du Saint Office. (Fontes Archivi Sancti Officii Romani, 6.) Pp. xvi+546. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2011. €60 (paper). 978 88 209 8587 5

Britton, Karla Cavarra (ed.), Constructing the ineffable. Contemporary sacred architecture. Pp. 244 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. New Haven, Ct: Yale School of Architecture, 2010. £35. 978 0 300 17037 5

Ederer, Rupert J., Pope Pius XII on the economic order. (Catholic Social Thought, 3.) Pp. xiv+277. Lanham–Toronto–Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2011. £31.95. 978 0 8108 7797 9

Grau, Marion, Rethinking mission in the postcolony. Salvation, society and subversion. Pp. ix+293. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2011. £24.99 (paper). 978 0 567 11619 2; 978 0 567 28088 6

Wilson, Kenneth, Methodist theology. (Doing Theology.) Pp. x+193. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2011. £14.99 (paper). 978 0 567 03427 4; 978 0 567 64498 5