{"title":"Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution","authors":"Peter Denney","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13166","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement. By analysing loyalist sermons, in particular, the essay shows that the conservative Anglican interpretation of Methodism as a stimulus to Jacobinism derived from an elite anxiety about the subversive effects of noisy behaviour. It also reveals that disagreement about the proper use of sound in both religious and political contexts contributed to the escalating conflict within the Methodist Connexion during the revolutionary decade, following the death of John Wesley. As the essay demonstrates, the acoustic dimensions of religion became thoroughly politicised in the 1790s in a development which radicalised some plebeian evangelical Dissenters, while hardening the division between popular and institutional Methodism.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"307-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13166","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100949","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":"David Bebbingtonand , David Ceri Jones: Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales., London and New York: Routledge, 2021; pp. x + 218.","authors":"John Coffey","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"394-395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100968","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":"Kevin N. Cawley: The Emplantation of Catholicism in Pre-Modern Korea: Texts, Teachings and Gender Relations(Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality)., London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025; pp. 218.","authors":"David W. Kim","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"396-398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100960","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":"Matthew L. Harris: Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. xv + 460.","authors":"James B. Bennett","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"392-393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102225","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":"Alan Strathern: Converting Rulers. Global Patterns, 1450–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024; pp. xiv + 481.","authors":"R. Po-chia Hsia","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"390-391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100996","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":"Andrew Jotischky. The Monastic World: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024; pp. xi + 347.","authors":"Lauren Mancia","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"388-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100907","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":"Pedro Feitoza: Propagandists of the Book: Protestant Missions, Christian Literacy, and the Making of Brazilian Evangelicalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. xi +293","authors":"João B. Chaves","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 2","pages":"286-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514870","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":"A Missionary's “Justice”: The Unique Roles of S. Wells Williams in the Sino–American Negotiations on the Burgevine Case (1863–1865)","authors":"Siyang Shuai","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Christianity in nineteenth-century China was closely intertwined with international politics, with missionaries deeply involved in diplomatic affairs. The Sino–US negotiation over the jurisdiction of Henry A. Burgevine (1836–65), an American suspect in China, was a unique case, in which S. Wells Williams (1812–84), a protestant missionary, played crucial roles. He not only influenced the negotiations by manipulating translations of diplomatic notes but also made the decision that led to the suspect's death and sparked controversies. This article, drawing from various archival sources, reconstructs Williams's crucial and yet neglected involvement in the case. By analysing his translation strategies and diplomatic actions, it reveals how Williams, a missionary-turned-diplomatic translator, pursued his vision of “justice,” and how his religious stance and moral values influenced his handling of foreign-related cases under the extraterritorial provision. Through Williams's case, the article sheds light on the interactions between religious values and political interests in early Sino–US diplomacy, thus deepening our understanding of early Sino–US relations as well as the history of Christianity in nineteenth-century China.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 3","pages":"359-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101015","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":"Leuchter, Mark: An Empire Far and Wide: The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth and Jewish Scribes in the Late Persian Period., New York: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. xii + 169","authors":"Christine Mitchell","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 2","pages":"272-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514660","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":"Jennifer Bond: Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. 280","authors":"Sarah Paddle","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"49 2","pages":"283-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514715","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}