{"title":"Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983","authors":"Michael Mawson","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the New Zealand Government and Pākehā society to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi. These Christians interrupted the service of national celebration by reading from the Old Testament prophets and offering prayers of repentance. Drawing on archival research and interviews, this article tells the story of this protest action and its impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"96-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615276","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":"Robert Garland: What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025; pp. 344.","authors":"Karolina Sekita","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70048","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579689","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":"147615439","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. Katie Harris: The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2023; pp. 242.","authors":"Jan Machielsen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70054","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"127-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579687","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":"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":"147579613","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":"War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion","authors":"Eun-Young Park, Do-Hyung Kim","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's control, chose to align with the state emphasizing unwavering loyalty to the emperor. This paper aims to focus on Ogawa Takemitsu, who led Christian peace movements through post-war organizations such as the “Christian Peace Association.” Reflecting on the state of Japanese Christianity during wartime, Ogawa deepened his theological contemplation on the church and state, war and peace, and sought to shape a new form of post-war Japanese Christianity. Ogawa's peace movement, which distanced itself from the logic of the state that causes war and strived to build a peaceful community through transnational citizen solidarity, reminds us of the issues of the Japanese Constitution and pacifism that have been central themes in post-war Japanese politics. It can also serve to re-emphasize the meaning of a peaceful community to Japanese society, which continues to pursue constitutional revision aimed at becoming a war-capable state.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"56-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585126","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":"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":"147615116","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":"Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983","authors":"Michael Mawson","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the New Zealand Government and Pākehā society to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi. These Christians interrupted the service of national celebration by reading from the Old Testament prophets and offering prayers of repentance. Drawing on archival research and interviews, this article tells the story of this protest action and its impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"96-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9809.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615279","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":"Stanley Stowers: History and the Study of Religion: The Ancient Mediterranean as a Test Case. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024; pp. ix + 384.","authors":"Jörg Rüpke","doi":"10.1111/1467-9809.70046","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9809.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44035,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY","volume":"50 1","pages":"118-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585087","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":"147614950","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}