The Journal of Religious History is an international, fully refereed journal which publishes articles and reviews current work in the history of religions and their relationship with all aspects of human experience. With high quality international contributors, the journal explores religion and its related subjects, along with debates on comparative method and theory in religious history.
ISSUE INFORMATION
Issue Information Pages: 145–146 / First Published: 10 June 2020
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLES
Introduction to June 2020 Special Issue: Christianity and Politics in Twentieth‐Century Africa James J. Carney Pages: 147–148 / First Published: 23 May 2020
‘To Save a Soul’: Catholic Mission Schools, Apartheid, and the 1953 Bantu Education Act R. Bentley Anderson Pages: 149–167 / First Published: 21 May 2020
“Lord Come to Our Aid”: Islamisation, Civil War, and the Pastoral Letters of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference Christopher Tounsel Pages: 168–186 / First Published: 25 May 2020
The Self‐Understanding of the Congolese Church during War: CENCO in the Grip of the Greatest Modern Humanitarian Crisis Raphael Okitafumba Lokola Pages: 187–211 / First Published: 01 June 2020
Benedicto Kiwanuka and Catholic Democracy in Uganda J. J. Carney Pages: 212–229 / First Published: 25 May 2020
J. Casely Hayford’s Social Imaginary of “Church Universal” in William Waddy Harris the West African Reformer: The Man and His Message (1915) Jennifer L. Aycock Pages: 230–250 / First Published: 01 June 2020
BOOK REVIEWS
Richard Bauckham, ed.: Magdala of Galilee: A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Roman Period. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018; pp. xx + 436. Joshua D. Garroway Pages: 251–252 / First Published: 04 April 2020
Wilkens, Steve and Padgett, Alan G.: Introduction to Philosophy: Christianity and the Big Questions. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018; pp. vi + 327. Raphael Lataster Pages: 252–254 / First Published: 04 April 2020
O'Hara, Alexander: Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. xv + 322 Sihong Lin Pages: 254–255 / First Published: 04 April 2020
Gifford, Paul: The Plight of Western Religion: The Eclipse of the Other‐Worldly. London: Hurst & Company, 2019; pp. v + 161. Anna Lutkajtis Pages: 255–257 / First Published: 07 April 2020
Krueger, Derek and Nelson, Robert S., eds: The New Testament in Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016; pp. 334. Andrew Mellas Pages: 257–259 / First Published: 04 April 2020
Thibodeaux, Jennifer D.: The Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 1066–1300. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; pp. viii + 230. Constant J. Mews Pages: 259–260 / First Published: 04 April 2020
Sánchez Walsh, Arlene M.: Pentecostals in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018; pp. xxix + 155. Christopher A. Stephenson Pages: 261–262 / First Published: 07 April 2020
Timothy E.W. Gloege: Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015; pp. xv + 326. Geoff Treloar Pages: 262–264 / First Published: 09 April 2020
Richard Francaviglia: The Mapmakers of New Zion: A Cartographic History of Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015; pp. xvi + 272. Garry W. Trompf Pages: 265–266 / First Published: 04 April 2020
Penkower, Linda and Pintchman, Tracy, eds.: Hindu Ritual at the Margins: Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014; pp. xiv + 235. Suvarna Variyar Pages: 267–268 / First Published: 04 April 2020