{"title":"Juliane Zachhuber: Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. xiv + 422.","authors":"Emily Kearns","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"348-349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Battle of the Rubric”: The Contested History of Clerical Dress in Victorian England","authors":"Martin Wellings","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article takes one facet of the controversy engulfing the Church of England in the mid-nineteenth century over ritualism—the interpretation of the rubrics in the <i>Book of Common Prayer</i> governing clerical dress—and explores it through the writings of three representatives of very different standpoints. It considers, first, the careful academic scholarship of James Craigie Robertson (1813–82), Professor of Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London, and Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, arguing against ritualist innovations. It then turns to Thomas Walter Perry (1815–91), a strong advocate for eucharistic vestments. Finally, it explores the polemical Protestantism of Richard Paul Blakeney (1820–84). Each author is considered the contexts of the Tractarian and ritualist movements and of the wider liturgical and aesthetic developments of the period. The article concludes that no church party emerged victorious from the “battle of the rubric,” and that the conflict significantly undermined the ideal of conformity to the <i>Book of Common Prayer</i> as a sign and source of unity in the Church of England.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"251-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joseph E. Sanzo: Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2024; pp. 188.","authors":"Peter George Maxwell-Stuart","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"343-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Desegregationist Pan-African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*","authors":"Kai Parker","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan-Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version of the social gospel. Du Bois indicated that to undo the logic of “Darkest Africa,” African American churches should cultivate Black “striving” for what he viewed as the overlapping ideals of Pan-Africanism and civil rights in the United States. Through this “spiritual striving,” the Black church could be the wellspring of a desegregated, decolonised global civil society.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"318-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ian Christopher Levy: With a Pure Conscience: Christian Liberty before the Reformation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025; pp. xvi + 323.","authors":"Ken Pennington","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"333-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Johan Elverskog: A History of Uyghur Buddhism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024; pp. xiv + 278.","authors":"Abdurishid Yakup","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"339-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming the Religious Field: Czechoslovak Jehovah's Witnesses between Socialism and Post-socialism*","authors":"Martin Pácha","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>After the 1989 revolutions, minority faiths in Central and Eastern Europe entered a purportedly liberal era, yet many continued to navigate institutions still structured by socialist-era categories. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the religious field, this article examines how the Czechoslovak state treated Jehovah's Witnesses during this regime transformation. In the early 1990s, the new authorities reserved state subsidies, religious education and privileged access to schools, prisons and the military for already recognised “historical” churches, leaving other communities at the margins. Archival records, legislative debates, ministerial files and contemporary press coverage reveal that the state retained a supervisory role and entrenched an unequal legal environment. The analysis shows how path-dependent hierarchies continued to constrain minority faiths despite formal guarantees of freedom, complicating linear narratives of post-socialist liberalisation and enriching debates on church–state relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"300-317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum to “Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Maghenzani, S.</span> <span>Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century</span>. <i>Journal of Religious History.</i> <span>2025</span>; <span>49</span>: <span>376</span>-<span>387</span>. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70022\u0000 </p><p>In the above article, on page 383, the author mistakenly mentions “The analysis of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes by Arnold Witte,” which is incorrect. It should read “The analysis of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes by Elizabeth M. McCahill.”</p><p>Apologies for the error.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jon Balserak: Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536–1563: Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. ix + 326.","authors":"Jeffrey R. Watt","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"337-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rian Thum: Islamic China: An Asian History. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2025; pp. ix + 294.","authors":"David W. Kim","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 3","pages":"345-347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}