General
Bantu, Vince L., A multitude of all peoples. Engaging ancient Christianity's global identity. (Missiological Engagements.) Pp. xii + 243 incl. 41 figs. Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2020. $35 (paper). 978 0 8308 5107 2
Dowley, Tim, Illustrierter Atlas zur Geschichte des Christentums. Pp. 176 incl. 18 colour ills and 62 colour maps. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2019. €20. 978 3 7615 6630 5
McAllister, Colin (ed.), The Cambridge companion to apocalyptic literature. (Companions to Religion.) Pp. xviii + 356 incl. 2 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 108 43689 2
McGrath, Alister E., Iustitia Dei. A history of the Christian doctrine of justification. Fourth edition. Pp. xvi + 499 incl. 2 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (first publ. 1989). £34.99 (paper). 978 1 108 45999 0
Ancient world
Asiedu, F. B. A., Josephus, Paul, and the fate of early Christianity. History and silence in the first century. Pp. xviii + 351. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. £80. 978 1 9787 0132 8
Behr, John (trans.), Origen. On first principles. A reader's edition. Pp. lxxxviii + 357. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £35 (paper). 978 0 19 884531 7
Frey, Jörg and Wallraff, Martin (eds), Petrusliteratur und Petrusarchäologie. Römische Begegnungen. (Rom und Protestantismus Schriften des Melanchthon-Zentrums in Rom, 4.) Pp. vi + 317 incl. 5 ills and 1 table. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. €44 (paper). 978 3 16 155889 4
Huber-Rebenich, Stefan Rebenich, (eds), Interreligiöse Konflikte im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. Julian ‘Contra Galilaeos’ – Kyrill ‘Contra Iulianum’. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 181.) Pp. xvi + 292 incl. 13 ills and 2 tables. Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. €99.95. 978 3 11 055124 2
Miller, Samantha L., Chrysostom's devil. Demons, the will, and virtue in patristic soteriology. (New Explorations in Theology.) Pp. xviii + 196. Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2020. $40 (paper). 978 0 8308 4917 8
Monnickendam, Yifat, Jewish law and early Christian identity. Betrothal, marriage, and infidelity in the writings of Ephrem the Syrian. Pp. xii + 332. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 48032 1
Wortley, John, An introduction to the desert Fathers. Pp. xxiv + 190 incl. 2 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £17.99 (paper). 978 1 108 70572 7
Medieval Europe and Byzantium
Carraz, Damien, L'Ordre du Temple dans la basse vallée du Rhône (1124–1312). Ordres militaires, croisades et sociétés méridionales. Pp. 601 incl. 28 figs and 9 tables. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2020. €35 (paper). 978 2 7297 1212 9
Centro Italiano di Studi, Fra Elemosina e la riscrittura della memoria cittadina a Gualdo Tadino. Atti dell'Incontro di studio. Gualdo Tadino, 17–18 luglio 2017. (Società internazionale di studi francescani, 40.) Pp. x + 200 incl. 38 ills and 2 tables. Spoleto: Centro Itaniano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 2019. €32 (paper). 978 88 6809 256 6
Danelli, Tiziana, Inquisizione, frati Minori e cittadini di Todi (1329–1356). (Medioevo Francescano, Opera Prima, 3; Collana della Società internazionale di studi francescani, 38.) Pp. xvi + 779. Spoleto: Centro Itaniano di studi Sull'alto medioevo, 2018. €80 (paper). 98 88 6809 236 8
Flechner, Roy (ed.), The Hibernensis, I: Book 1 A study and edition; II: Book 2 Translation, commentary, and indexes. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 17.) Pp. 475, 476–1015 incl. 1 ill and 5 tables. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019. $130 (paper). 978 0 8132 3193 8; 978 0 8132 3221 8
Fogle, Lauren, The king's converts. Jewish conversion in medieval London. Pp. xvi + 233 incl. 3 figs and 18 tables. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. £70. 978 1 4985 8920 8
Inman, Anne E., Hild of Whitby and the ministry of women in the Anglo-Saxon world. Pp. xxvi + 225 incl. 12 figs. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. £65. 978 1 9787 0066 6
Ó Riain, Pádraig, The martyrology of the Regensburg Schottenkloster. (Henry Bradshaw Society.) Pp. xvi + 247. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for Henry Bradshaw Society), 2019. £60. 978 1 90749 736 0
Paciocco, Roberto, Il negotium imperfectum per Ambrogio da Massa (1240–1257). Con l'edizione del rotolo processuale per la canonizzazione. (Medioevo Francescano, 20; Collana della Società internazionale di studi francescani, 39.) Pp. x + 234 incl. 98 ills. Spoleto: Centro Itaniano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 2019. €30 (paper). 978 88 6809 248 1
Shead, Norman F. (ed.), Scottish episcopal acta, II: The early thirteenth century, c.1200-c.1240. (Scottish History Society Sixth Series, 14.) Pp. lxxxix + 483. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for Scottish History Society), 2020. £40. 978 0 906245 44 6
Toom, Tarmo (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Augustine's ‘Confessions’. Pp. xiv + 341. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 108 44981 6
Young, Francis, Athassel priory and the cult of St Edmund in medieval Ireland. Pp. 189 incl. 5 figs and 3 tables. Dublin–Chicago, Il: Four Courts Press, 2020. £45. 978 1 84682 846 1
Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe
Bastow, Sarah L., Edwin Sandys and the reform of English religion. (Research in Early Modern History.) Pp. x + 214. London–New York: Routledge, 2020. £120. 978 0 367 35315 5
Brewer, Brian C. and Whitford, David M. (eds), Calvin and the early Reformation. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions.) Pp. xiv + 231. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €99. 978 90 04 35994 9; 1573 4188
Brown, Stewart J., W. T. Stead. Nonconformist and newspaper prophet. (Spiritual Lives.) Pp. xvi + 226. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £30. 978 0 19 883253 9
Collins, Jeffrey R., In the Shadow of Leviathan. John Locke and the politics of conscience. (Ideas in Context.) Pp. xiv + 444. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £90. 978 1 108 47881 6
Gibbs, Gary G., Five parishes in late medieval and Tudor London. Communities and reforms. (Microhistories.) Pp. x + 202 incl. 11 figs and 10 tables. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 0 367 13402 0
Gribben, Crawford and Murdock, Graeme (eds), Cultures of Calvinism in early modern Europe. Pp. x + 254 incl. 5 coloured figs. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. 978 0 19 045628 3
Hamann, Byron Ellsworth, Bad Christians, new Spains. Muslims, Catholics, and native Americans in a Mediterratlantic world. (The Anthropology of History.) Pp. xiv + 342 incl. 49 colour and black-and-white figs, 7 maps and 1 table. London–New York: Routledge, 2020. £115. 978 0 367 22112 6
Hollingsworth, Mary, Pattenden, Miles and Witte, Arnold, A companion to the early modern cardinal. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 91.) Pp. xviii + 705 incl. 43 colour and black-and-white figs and 7 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €229. 978 90 04 31096 4; 1871 6377
Kirkpatrick, Laurence (ed.), Martin Luther 500. Conference papers marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Pp. 188 incl. 15 colour and black-and-white figs. Belfast: Union Theological College, 2017. £5 (paper)
Kolb, Robert, Luther's treatise on Christian freedom and its legacy. (Mapping the Tradition Series.) Pp. viii + 161. New York–London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020. £65. 978 1 9787 1065 8
Llopis, Borja Franco and Urquizar-Herrera, Antonio (eds), Jews and Muslims made visible in Christian Iberia and beyond, 14th to 18th centuries. Another image. (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 67.) Pp. xiv + 390 incl. 92 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €124. 978 90 04 39016 4; 1569 1934
McCoog, Thomas M SJ, Pre-suppression Jesuit activity in the British Isles and Ireland. (Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.) Pp. vi + 115. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €70 (paper). 978 90 04 39491 9
Moreno, Doris (ed.) (trans. Grayston, Phil), The complexity of Hispanic religious life in the 16th–18th centuries. (The Iberian Religious World, 6.) Pp. xii + 225 incl. 4 colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €165. 978 90 04 41721 2; 2213 9141
Petkov, Kiril (trans.), The Maltese dialogue. Giuseppe Cambiano, history, institutions, and politics of the Maltese knights (1554–1556). Pp. vi + 120. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 0 367 28093 2
Plunkett, Dudley (foreword the duke of Norfolk), The noble martyr. A spiritual biography of St Philip Howard. Pp. xvi + 111. Leominster: Gracewing, 2019. £9.99 (paper). 978 085244 959 2
Senning, Calvin F., Spain, rumor, and anti-Catholicism in mid-Jacobean England. The Palatine match, Cleves, and the Armada scares of 1612–1613 and 1614. (Research in Early Modern History.) Pp. xiv + 254 incl. frontispiece and 17 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 0 367 27191 6
Tarantino, Giovanni and Zika, Charles (eds), Feeling exclusion. Religious conflict, exile and emotions in early modern Europe. Pp. xiv + 296 incl. 34 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £29.99 (paper). 978 0 367 36706 0
Thaler, Peter, Protestant resistance in counterreformation Austria. (Research in Early Modern History.) Pp. x + 338 incl. 1 fig and 3 tables. New York–London: Routledge, 2020. £120. 978 0 367 42934 8
Ward Holder, R., John Calvin in context. Pp. xxiv + 494 incl. 2 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £84.99. 978 1 108 48240 0
Warne, Nathaniel A., The call to happiness. Eudaimonism in English Puritan thought. Pp. xii + 255. New York–London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. £65. 978 1 9787 0024 6
Wendebourg, Dorothea, Cameron, Euan and Ohst, Martin (eds), Sister Reformations III. Schwesterreformationen III. From Reformation movements to Reformation Churches in the Holy Roman Empire and on the British Isles. Pp. xxiv + 630 incl. 5 figs. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €184. 978 3 16 158932 4
Zecherle, Andreas, Die Rezeption der >Theologia Deutsch< bis 1523. Stationen der Wirkungesgeschichte im Spätmittelalter und in der frühen Reformationszeit. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 112.) Pp. xii + 312. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €114. 978 3 16 15580 2
Modern Europe
Bertram, Jerome, Newman's Oxford. The places and buildings associated with Saint John Henry Newman during his years in Oxford, 1816–1846. (3rd edition.) Pp. 64 incl. 33 colour and black-and-white figs and 1 map. Leominster: Gracewing, 2019. £6.99 (paper). 978 085244 950 9
Binasco, Matteo (ed.), Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic world, 1622–1908. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World.) Pp. xviii + 287. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. €103.99. 978 3 319 95974 0
Birch, Jonathan C. P., Jesus in an age of enlightenment. Radical gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World.) Pp. xx + 493. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. €77.99. 978 1 137 51275 8
Bird, Margaret, Mary Hardy and her world, 1773–1809, I: Spiritual and social forces. Pp. xxxi + 796 incl. 329 black-and-white ills, 38 colour plates and 32 tables. Kingston upon Thames: Burnham Press, 2020. £37.50. 978 1 9162067 3 1
Copeland, Jeffrey C. and Xu, Yan (foreword Matthew Lee Miller), The YMCA at war. Collaboration and conflict during the world wars. Pp. x + 248 incl. 1 fig and 1 table. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. £70. 978 1 4985 4820 5
Davis, Nathaniel, A long walk to church. A contemporary history of Russian Orthodoxy. 2nd edn. (First publ. by Westview Press, 2003.) Pp. xxiv + 368 incl. 3 figs and 12 tables. New York–London: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 0 267 09673 1
Galliver, Peter, Ampleforth College. ‘We must look to Ampleforth for the lead’. The emergence of Ampleforth College as ‘Catholic Eton’. Pp. xviii + 140 incl. 3 tables. Leominster: Gracewing, 2019. £12.99 (paper). 978 085244 939 4
Houston, Joel, Wesley, Whitefield, and the ‘free grace’ controversy. The crucible of Methodism. (Methodist Studies Series.) Pp. xiv + 196. New York–London: Routledge, 2020. £120. 978 1 138 31725 2
Kapaló, James A., Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity. Religious dissent in the Russian and Romanian borderlands. (New Religions.) Pp. xviii + 277 incl. 26 figs and 2 maps. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 1 4724 3218 6
Ker, Ian, John Henry Newman. A biography. Pp. xiv + 772 incl. frontispiece. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019 (first publ. 1988). £20 (paper). 978 0 19 885680 1
Mair, Laura M., Religion and relationships in Ragged Schools. An intimate history of educating the poor, 1844–1870. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. xvi + 240 incl. 5 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 0 8153 9460 0
Mawson, Michael and Ziegler, Philip G. (eds), The Oxford handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Pp. xiv + 499. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £110. 978 0 19 875317 9
Moorcroft, Jennifer, When silence speaks. The life and spirituality of Elisabeth Leseur. Pp. x + 181. Leominster: Gracewing, 2019. £12.99 (paper). 978 085244 903 5
Nichols op, Aidan, In search of the sacred image. Pp. xii + 274. Leominster: Gracewing Publishing, 2020. £15.99 (paper). 978 0 85244 926 4
Ravenscroft, Ruth Jackson, The veiled God. Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology of finitude. (Studies in Systematic Theology, 19.) Pp. xviii + 293. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €59 (paper). 978 90 04 39781 1; 1876 1518
Shore, Paul, The years of Jesuit suppression, 1773–1814. Survival, setbacks, and transformation. (Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.) Pp. vi + 117. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €70 (paper). 978 90 04 42108 0
Walsh, Ashley, Civil religion and the enlightenment in England, 1707–1800. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Pp. xiv + 254. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 78327 490 1
Africa, Asia and Australasia
Amsler, Nadine, Badea, Andreea, Heyberger, Bernard and Windler, Christina (eds), Catholic missionaries in early modern Asia. Patterns of localization. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World.) Pp. viii + 272 incl. 8 figs and 1 map. New York–London: Routledge, 2020. £115. 978 0 367 02881 7
Arrington, Aminta (foreword Brian Stanley), Songs of the Lisu hills. Practicing Christianity in southwest China. (World Christianity.) Pp. xx + 232 incl. 11 figs, 4 maps and 2 tables. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. $89.95. 978 0 271 08507 4
Belvadi, Anilkumar, Missionary calculus. Americans in the making of Sunday schools in Victorian India. (American Academy of Religion. Religion, Culture, and History.) Pp. xiv + 244 incl. 24 figs and 23 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. 978 0 19 005242 3
Coello de la Rosa, Alexandre, Gathering souls. Jesuit missions and missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945). (Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.) Pp. vi + 115 incl. 15 colour and black-and-white figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €70 (paper). 978 90 04 39485 8
Holland, Jonathan, The destiny and Passion of Philip Nigel Warrington Strong. Pp. xii + 539 incl. 88 ills and 4 maps. Bokarina: Lakeside Publishing, 2019. £20.80 (paper). 978 0 244 18236 6
McClelland, Gwyn, Dangerous memory in Nagasaki. Prayers, protests and Catholic survivor narratives. (Asia's Transformations, 55.) Pp. xxx + 216 incl. 31 figs and 2 maps. London–New York: Routledge, 2020. £120. 978 0 367 21775 4
Piggin, Stuart and Linder, Robert D., Attending to the national soul. Evangelical Christians in Australian history, 1914–2014. Pp. xvi + 640 incl. 3 tables. Clayton, VIC: Monash University Publishing, 2020. £38.99. 978 1 925835 36 6
Sweeten, Alan Richard, China's old churches. The history, architecture, and legacy of Catholic sacred structures in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, 2.) Pp. xxii + 419 incl. 138 colour and black-and-white figs, 7 tables and 9 colour maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. €138. 978 90 04 41612 3; 2542 3681
Wei, Sophie Ling-chia, Chinese theology and translation. The Christianity of the Jesuit figurists and their Christianized Yijing. (Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy, 26.) Pp. xiv + 152 incl. 11 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2020. £115. 978 1 138 48150 3
Yates, Brian J., The other Abyssinians. The northern Oromo and the creation of modern Ethiopia, 1855–1913. (Studies in African History and the Diaspora.) Pp. x + 236 incl 27 figs and 9 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020. £90. 978 1 58046 980 7
The Americas
Breidenbach, Michael D. and Anderson, Owen (eds), The Cambridge companion to the First Amendment and religious liberty. (Companions to Law.) Pp. xiv + 461. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £31.99 (paper). 978 1 108 40529 4
Dickerson, Dennis C., The African Methodist Episcopal Church. A history. Pp. xii + 602 incl. 22 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £89. 978 0 521 19152 4
Grubiak, Margaret M., Monumental Jesus. Landscapes of faith and doubt in modern America. Pp. xx + 195 incl. 50 figs. Charlottesville, Va–London: University of Virginia Press, 2020. £40.95. 978 0 8139 4374 9
Henry, Daryn, A. B., Simpson and the making of the modern Evangelicalism. (Studies in the History of Religion, Series 2, 87.) Pp. xvi + 403 incl. 9 figs and 1 table. London–Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. £27.99 (paper). 978 0 7735 5927 1
Lemons, J. Stanley, Retracing Baptists in Rhode Island. Identity, formation, and history. Pp. viii + 736. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2019. $69.95 (paper). 978 1 4813 0993 6
Manchester, Margaret Murányi, Puritan family and community in the English Atlantic world. Being ‘much afflicted with conscience’. (Microhistories.) Pp. xii + 158 incl. 4 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. 978 0 367 15078 5
Marini, Stephen A., The Cashaway psalmody. Transatlantic religion and music in colonial Carolina. (Music in American Life.) Pp. xii + 466 incl. 42 ills, 1 map and 7 tables. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2020. £54. 978 0 252 04284 3
Moore, Peter N., Archibald Simpson's unpeaceable kingdom. The ordeal of Evangelicalism in the colonial South. (Religion in American History.) Pp. xxx + 221 incl. 9 ills. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018. £70. 978 1 4985 6990 3
Whelan, Matthew Philipp, Blood in the fields. Óscar Romero, Catholic social teaching and land reform. Pp. xx + 346. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. $65. 978 0 8132 3252 2
General : Modern world
Callison, William and Manfredi, Zachary (eds), Mutant neoliberalism. Market rule and political rupture. Pp. viii + 305 incl. 4 ills and 1 table. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. $35 (paper). 978 0 8232 8570 9
Eicher, John P. R., Exiled among nations. German and Mennonite mythologies in a transnational age. (Publications of the German Historical Institute.) Pp. xxii + 337 incl. 17 figs and 6 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. £75. 978 1 108 48611 8
Lauster, Jörg, Schmiedel, Ulrich and Schüz, Peter (eds), Liberale Theologie heute. Liberal theology today. (Dogmatik in der Moderne, 27.) Pp. viii + 403 incl. 11 ills. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. €199. 978 3 16 157660 7
Papanikolaou, Aristotle and Demacopoulos, George E. (eds), Fundamentalism or tradition. Christianity after secularism. (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought.) Pp. viii + 278 incl. 1 table. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. £30 (paper). 978 0 8232 8578 5
Tzan, Douglas D., William Taylor and the mapping of the Methodist missionary tradition. The world his parish. Pp. vi + 273 incl. 9 figs. New York–London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. £65. 978 1 4985 5908 9