{"title":"Yun Zhou: The Woman's Messenger: Evangelical Literature and the Missionary Movement in Republican China., University Park: Penn State University Press, 2025; pp. 232.","authors":"Olivia Mitchell","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"213-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386492","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":"Michael W. Champion: Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. ix + 261.","authors":"Doru Costache","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"225-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386732","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.H. Robert Evans: God and History in the Early Medieval West: The Theology of Carolingian Historians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 278.","authors":"Sarah Foot","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"221-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386735","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":"Anti-Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*","authors":"Sante Lesti","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This introduction is divided into three sections. First, it examines the existing historiography on Catholic anti-Protestantism, arguing that, unlike anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism has not undergone a transnational turn. Second, it explores the new perspectives opened up by taking a global approach to Catholic anti-Protestantism. Finally, it summarises the key conclusions of the special issue, “Anti-Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960.”</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"141-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386899","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":"Michael Hoberman: Imagining Early American Jews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; p. 233.","authors":"Elon Julius","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"233-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386671","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":"Merry Wiesner-Hanks: Women and the Reformations: A Global History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024; pp. xviii + 341.","authors":"Barbara B. Diefendorf","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"229-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386736","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":"Paul Smith: Catholics and the Law in Restoration Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025; pp. viii + 236.","authors":"Tadhg O'Hannrachain","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"217-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386917","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":"Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)","authors":"Giacomo Canepa","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anti-Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter-confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past. This article explores this shift by outlining the reasons for the decreasing hostility towards Protestant missions in Africa during the decolonisation process. Based on an extensive review of generalist and missionary Catholic magazines published in two European countries that were affected differently by the decolonisation process—Italy and France—the article examines how anti-Protestantism influenced missions, and vice versa, in Africa between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Second Vatican Council. By analysing the national contexts of the articles and the contexts in which the magazines were published, it first unravels the reasons for the persistence of anti-Protestantism in Catholic missionary culture at the beginning of the 1950s, then explores the gradual emergence of new priorities linked to a new generation of missionaries, such as the fight against communism, the spread of Islam and the formation of new Catholic elites in newly independent African countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"175-195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386896","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":"Madeleine Gray, David Ceri Jones, Barry J. Lewis, and D. Densil Morgan: A History of Christianity in Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022; pp. xv + 387.","authors":"Jonathan M. Wooding","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"215-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386678","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":"Francesco Torchiani: The Unspeakable Vice: The Catholic Church and Homosexuality in the Twentieth Century, translated by Johanna Bishop. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2026; pp. vi + 198.","authors":"Miles Pattenden","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"223-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386731","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}