{"title":"Frances Courtney Kneupper: Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400: Outsiders, Women, and Reformers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. ix + 290.","authors":"Bert Roest","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70040","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"110-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579716","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":"Bruce Gordon: The Bible: A Global History., New York, NY: Basic Books, 2024; pp. vii + 432.","authors":"Vincent Stine","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579675","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":"Two Anthropologists and Innocent III (d. 1216)","authors":"D. L. d'Avray","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The anthropologists of religion Mary Douglas (d. 2007) and Louis Dumont (d. 1998) developed analytical concepts that can illuminate aspects of the medieval Church which are articulately distilled into a letter of Pope Innocent III (d. 1216). Mary Douglas associated “high grid” (meaning thoroughgoing social classification) with “condensed symbolism.” The combination can occur in both literate and non-literate cultures. She found the combination in her own fieldwork on the Lele of the Kasai, and Victor Turner's work on the Ndembu of Zambia. It is also strikingly evident, once one looks, in a letter in which Innocent III abandoned genre restraint to write an essay on anointing and hierarchy in the Church as he understood it, which was quite well, since he was not only an observer, but a participant with great power over the system. Dumont, an approximate contemporary of Douglas, provides insights, supplementing those of Douglas, that further enhance understanding of Innocent III's letter and the whole social system which it instantiates. With the help of Mary Douglas, Louis Dumont and Innocent's essay on unction, we can identify a social form which, without being universal, transcends particular regions and periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147614951","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":"Kenneth G., Appold: Luther & the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, & the Revolt of 1525. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 224.","authors":"Massimiliano Tomba","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"122-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615438","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 Good Deal of Free Advertising” despite her “Obscene Character”: Nuancing Media Portrayals of an Escaped Nun in the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras","authors":"Elisabeth C. Davis","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the media coverage of the “escaped nun,” Edith O'Gorman, one of the few “escaped nuns” who had actually been a member of a religious community. She used her experiences in the convent to drive her career as a lecturer in the United States and abroad. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis, this article examines US newspaper coverage of O'Gorman from the year of her escape in 1868 to a year after her death in 1929. By analyzing articles, advertisements and reviews of the escaped nun, this study traces a shift in how the American newspapers portrayed the former nun, initially largely depicting her in sensationalist and entertainment terms in the 1860s through 1880s to later placing her as part of a determined anti-Catholic movement in the 1890s through 1910s. Unlike previous histories on anti-Catholicism in this era, this study traces media coverage of an anti-Catholic reformer in the general press, rather than only in the nativist press. This study nuances the history of anti-Catholicism in the years after the American Civil War, particularly how Americans may have viewed the convent and escaped nuns.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"38-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585237","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":"Patrick Hayden-Roy: The Luther Myth: The Image of Martin Luther from Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. 275.","authors":"William Skiles","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"112-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579612","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":"Evelyn Sterne: The House of David: Salvation, Scandal, and Survival in a Modern American Commune. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 288.","authors":"Shannon McRae","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70057","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"135-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585134","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":"Richard H. Davis: Religions of Early India: A Cultural History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024; pp. xviii + 587.","authors":"Knut A. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147614986","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":"Beizer Michael and Komaromi Ann: A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979–1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025; pp. Xiv + 310.","authors":"Tatsiana Astrouskaya","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"132-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147614808","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":"Beizer Michael and Komaromi Ann: A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979–1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025; pp. Xiv + 310.","authors":"Tatsiana Astrouskaya","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"132-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147614807","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}