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{"title":"G. Kanato Chophy: Christianity and Politics in Tribal India: Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021; pp. xviii + 460.","authors":"Suvarna Variyar","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This book examines the historical place and development of the Naga Baptist community (situated in the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland) and the relationship it is navigating with external societies, both in other parts of India and globally. It considers the evolving nature of the beliefs of individual Baptists and the consequent impact on the Naga Baptist tradition as a whole. It moves between the historical and ethnographic lenses as the focus shifts from macro to micro. Though the work does discuss the broader socio-political Indian context, this serves more to locate the subject matter within a wider context than to closely examine the influence of the colonial and post-Independence periods on the community. This is in line with Chophy's core argument that the ethnic Naga Baptist culture is a concrete entity that has been influenced rather than shaped by these broader influences. It thus focuses on Naga Baptists residing in Nagaland.</p><p>Chophy's work is situated within the fields of South Asian studies, religious studies, history, ethnography, and Christian studies. The synthesis of ethnography and history lends the work intersectionality in both material (ranging from historical records to field notes) and methodological approach. This book is targeted towards an academic audience with specific interests in minority Indian religio-cultural groups. It provides sufficient contextual framing that it would also be of interest to a wider academic audience or to the casual reader with a general understanding of the history of Christianity in India. At the outset (or at least, at page 5) Chophy introduces an important question that a reader may well be asking themselves: “What distinguishes a Naga Baptist?” Throughout the work, this question is addressed from multiple angles.</p><p>The book falls into three broad sections. The first (Chapters 1 and 2) situates Naga Baptism within a historical framework, tracing its origins and development through the colonial era and the spread of Christianity in the subcontinent. The section provides an overview of the growth of American Baptism specifically within Naga communities. It describes the disruption in the developing foothold of American missionaries in Assam due to outbreaks of violence and uprising in other regions of India through the mid-nineteenth century.</p><p>Importantly, Chophy also frames the political and cultural difficulties of missionary endeavours in a region that serves as a microcosm of the linguistic and social diversities of the entirety of the subcontinent. American Baptists were confronting two vastly different forms of “Hinduism”; the Sanskrit tradition most familiar to Western colonial powers, and the tribal cultures with “varied pantheons and beliefs far removed from Hindu civilisation” (p. 37). It considers particularly closely the geography of the Naga tribal region, straddling the mountainous and remote border between India and Myanmar. Despite the title of the bo","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 4","pages":"488-489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140977127","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":"Andreea Badea, Bruno Boute, and Birgit Emich, eds.: Pathways through Early Modern Christianities. Böhlau: Brill, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023; pp. 333 + 21 coloured images.","authors":"Kirsten Macfarlane","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"377-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140973621","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":"Elliot Hanowski: Toward a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023; pp. 360.","authors":"Ken Draper","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13061","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"376-377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140974021","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":"Gardiner H. Shattuck: Christian Homeland: Episcopalians and the Middle East, 1820–1958. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023; pp. xx + 280.","authors":"Carimo Mohomed","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13059","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"374-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140928575","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":"Cows, Communities, and Religious Responses to the 1865–66 British Rinderpest Outbreak*","authors":"Joseph Hardwick","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13056","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The devastating outbreak of rinderpest in the British Isles in 1865–66 — the so-called “cattle plague” — was a significant event in Victorian Britain, one that did much to shape British agriculture, animal disease control, and veterinary medicine. This article argues that the cattle plague also had long-term significance for the relationship between the Church of England and non-human animals. During eighteenth-century rinderpest outbreaks, Anglican clergy had rarely considered the suffering animals. In 1865–66 and afterwards, services in Anglican churches increasingly involved animal themes, issues, and presences. From this time, it became usual for Anglicans to mark moments of severe animal disease with special prayers and services. The crisis also encouraged changes in how Church of England clergy, and ministers in other Christian denominations, spoke about animals in sermons. During the outbreak of rinderpest, there was a sharpened awareness of the extent to which cows and humans had common interests and inhabited a shared community. A heightened appreciation of the bonds and interdependencies between people and farmed animals, the article suggests, had much significance for ecological thinking among nineteenth-century ministers of religion. The article argues for the distinctive status of cattle in modern Christianity.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 2","pages":"153-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140928572","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":"Are you a True Patriot? Twentieth-century Dominican State Formation in the Ecuadorian Amazon","authors":"William T. Fischer","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13057","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the role played by Dominican missions in Ecuador's Amazonian territory from approximately 1930–1970. In the Dominicans' own monthly magazine, they claimed not only the roles of infrastructural development, “civilisation” of indigenous peoples, and nationalisation of territory, as did Catholic missions elsewhere; but also the roles of mediator of competing interests and redeemer of the entire country. The central Pastaza River region and important cities like Mera and Puyo were administered and developed chiefly by the Dominican missions ahead of massive colonisation and economic development linked to agriculture and oil drilling. This research contributes to our understanding of the role of Catholic missions in Ecuador's twentieth century by demonstrating that print media allowed them to be more than just frontier institutions. It also illustrates how Ecuador's “Oriente” came to be more fully integrated into the nation prior to the oil boom of the 1970s.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 2","pages":"185-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140842362","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":"“Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers”: Iwanaga Maki, Social Welfare Pioneer, and the jūjikai Women's Religious Order","authors":"Gwyn McClelland","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.13047","url":null,"abstract":"Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known as the sister of the intersection. She was a social‐work pioneer, believed to have cared for upwards of 900 children. During her family's imprisonment in Bizen (Okayama), Iwanaga's younger sister, Fui, and her father died. Iwanaga and her compatriots started the jūjikai Cross Society, that was the first Japanese Catholic women's order post‐persecution in 1879, working to assist those affected by epidemics and beginning one of, if not the first orphanage in the Meiji era in Japan. In this article by including a family tree, I consider how memory and emotion is transmitted across generations, drawing on Marianne Hirsch's “postmemory,” in the light of the narratives about Iwanaga. I examine three primary sources, including two spoken records and a photograph, to better understand the emotional person of Iwanaga, and her institution of onnabeya, or women's rooms.","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"13 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140656170","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":"Donato Giannotti and William J. Connell (ed.): Della republica ecclesiastica. Turin: Einaudi, 2023; pp. lxxxv + 392.","authors":"Alison Brown","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13052","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"367-369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592971","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":"Celestina Savonius-Wroth: Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism: The Protestant Discovery of Tradition. Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; pp. ix + 311.","authors":"Jeffrey W. Barbeau","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13055","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 3","pages":"372-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592967","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":"Skin Colour and Priesthood. Debating Bodily Differences in Early Modern Catholicism*","authors":"Brendan Röder","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.13041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.13041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Can people of different skin colours become Catholic priests? What may seem self-evident from today's perspective, Catholic theologians and canon lawyers controversially debated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While most authors agreed that colour per se was not a problematic factor, an increasing number argued that non-white individuals should not serve as priests in white communities because of the negative reactions they would provoke there. This article argues that by taking this “perspectivist view” the Catholic Church could claim universality and flexibility in its admission policy whereas, in fact, it incorporated and reinforced anti-Blackness. The article analyses the hitherto unexplored history of this debate, situates it within broader thinking about bodily differences in an increasingly global Catholic world and shows how it intersected with practical issues surrounding the establishment of an indigenous clergy throughout the Catholic empires and missionary zones.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"48 2","pages":"135-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.13041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140593156","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}