{"title":"Amanda Lanzillo: Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023; pp. 246.","authors":"Megan Robb","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"238-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386570","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":"Mark S. Massa, S.J: Catholic Fundamentalism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 226.","authors":"Blandine chelini-pont","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"241-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386766","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":"Omid Ghaemmaghami and Shahin Vafai: Exploring the Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Laws and Teachings of the Bahá'í Faith. London: I.B. Tauris, 2025; pp. v + 473.","authors":"Zackery Mirza Heern","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"227-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386841","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 Pacific Alliance Anti-Protestantism, Anti-Communism and Vatican Strategy in the Philippines 1945–1958","authors":"Sam Kuijken","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how Catholic anti-Protestantism and anti-Communism shaped Vatican strategy in the Philippines between 1945 and 1958. It argues that while Protestantism was perceived as a cultural and religious threat linked to American influence, Communism emerged as the more urgent political and existential danger. Drawing on Vatican archival sources, it highlights the role of the Apostolic Delegation in assessing risks and translating them into concrete political action. The study shows how these priorities led to a strategic alignment between the Vatican and the United States, forming a “Pacific alliance” that influenced Philippine politics, especially during the 1953 elections. Ultimately, the article contends that anti-Communism eclipsed anti-Protestantism, enabling a pragmatic Vatican acceptance of American influence in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"196-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386754","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":"Susanna Berger: The Deformation: Attention and Discernment in Catholic Reformation Art and Architecture. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2025; pp. 336.","authors":"Marie-Louise Lillywhite","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"219-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386680","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 Protestant Menace: Catholic Missionary Anti-Protestantism during and after the First World War (1918–1922)*","authors":"Sante Lesti","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Christian missions have been integral to the making of the modern world. Unsurprisingly, the rise of global history over the past two decades has been accompanied by a growing historiography of Christian missions. Yet several key milestones and dynamics in mission history remain insufficiently explored. The first aim of this article is to shed light on one such milestone: the reform of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (1918–1922), the principal—then and now—Catholic association dedicated to financing missionary activities. Drawing on previously unpublished Vatican documents, the article demonstrates that this reform was closely linked to the need to compete with Protestant missionary organizations. The second, more ambitious aim is to argue that religious—and particularly inter-Christian—competition played a crucial role in the global expansion of missionary activity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and consequently in the making and continual remaking of the modern world.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"147-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386898","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":"Isabel Moreira: Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovigian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024; p. 240.","authors":"Rachel Singer","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 2","pages":"231-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386737","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":"Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930","authors":"Andrew Atherstone","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The late-Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion. Worried congregations looked for alternatives, and some experimented with individual communion cups, an innovation which began in North America but quickly spread globally. This article examines the impact of these public health anxieties upon the eucharistic practice of the Church of England over three decades, between the late 1890s and the late 1920s, under the leadership of two Archbishops of Canterbury, Frederick Temple and Randall Davidson. It offers a close reading of their archiepiscopal correspondence, the debates of the 1908 Lambeth Conference, and the various ways in which Anglican clergy and bishops wrestled with the dilemmas. It argues that Davidson's diplomatic strategy of focusing on medical opinion, rather than church law or doctrine, and of deliberately avoiding public disputation, successfully blunted the campaign to introduce individual cups into the Church of England. The article suggests that these debates were an important, but forgotten, chapter in Anglican eucharistic controversy and in the Church's fractious relationship with modern science.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"20-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579694","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":"The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist","authors":"Diarmid A. Finnegan","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late-Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic. In this paper, the rhetorical roles played by savage fabulations in the popular writings of the Scottish evangelist, evolutionist and traveller, Henry Drummond (1851–97), are subject to scrutiny. Drummond's varied corpus of extraordinarily popular writings provides a particularly revealing example of the prevalence and potency of the savage as an organising category for dealing with human difference in an age permeated by both religious and evolutionary beliefs about humanity. Drummond's efforts to create a form of Christian evolutionism relevant to, and transformative of, the lives of evangelical Christians leant heavily on the savage as a trope useful for conveying this new religious vision of evolution. In so doing, Drummond reinforced and revised the racial reasoning that infused so much late-Victorian savage discourse and propagated it to a mass religious audience across several continents.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"77-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579718","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 Stobart: Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the English Clergy. London: Bloomsbury, 2025; pp. 392.","authors":"Ruth Larsen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70052","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"125-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585026","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}