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 – TOC
Issue information – TOC (pages 301–302) Version of Record online: 26 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12398
ARTICLES
Quaker Dreaming: The “Lost” Cotton Archive and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land (pages 303–325) Nicholas Dean Brodie Version of Record online: 4 NOV 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12305
Politics and Eschatology: Reassessing the Appeal of the “Jewish Indian” Theory in England and New England in the 1650s (pages 326–346) Andrew Crome Version of Record online: 18 NOV 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12301
George Weekes: Rogue Missionary to New England Indians, 1731–1755 (pages 347–367) Jason Eden Version of Record online: 2 NOV 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12304
Christianity and Secularisation in the West and the Middle East: A Theological Stance (pages 368–384) Sylvie Avakian Version of Record online: 2 NOV 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12303
Occult Spheres, Planes, and Dimensions: Geometric Terminology and Analogy in Modern Esoteric Discourse (pages 385–404) Christopher A. Plaisance Version of Record online: 1 DEC 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12302
Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra in Translation: A Century of Interpretation of a Sanskrit Mahāyāna Text (pages 405–427) Barbara Nelson Version of Record online: 2 NOV 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12307
BOOK REVIEWS
Alden A. Mosshammer: The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008; pp. xi + 474. (pages 428–429) Daniel Anlezark Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12382
Kim Phillips: Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245–1510. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014; pp. x + 314. (pages 429–430) Keagan Brewer Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12384
Clark Chilson: Secrecy's Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014; pp. xvii + 242. (pages 430–432) Carole M. Cusack Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12371
Bulcsú K. Hoppál, ed.: Theories and Trends in Religions and in the Study of Religion. Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2015; pp. 307. (pages 432–433) Carole M. Cusack Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12372
Constance Brittain Bouchard: Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500–1200. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; pp. xvi + 362. (pages 433–435) Elizabeth Freeman Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12377
Thomas S. Kidd: George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014; pp. vi + 325. (pages 435–437) Benton Gates Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12375
James L. Cox: The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies. Durham and Bristol, CT: Acumen, 2014; pp. x + 182. (pages 437–438) Paul Hedges Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12378
Derek Krueger: Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014; pp. xi + 311. (pages 438–440) Andrew Mellas Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12373
William Chester Jordan: A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009; pp. xiii + 245. (pages 440–441) Constant Mews Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12381
Arthur McCalla: The Creationist Debate: The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind. New York: Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2013; pp. xiv + 327. (page 442) John A. Moses Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12379
Brian Stanley: The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910. Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Edermans, 2009; pp. xxii + 352. (page 443) John A. Moses Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12380
M. James Penton: Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 3rd ed., 2015; pp. xvii + 547. (pages 444–445) Jayne Persian Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12370
Leila Ahmed: A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011; pp. viii + 352. (pages 445–448) Bronwyn Winter Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12376
Zhang Xianqing: Intellectual Encounters between Jesuits and Confucians in Ming and Qing Dynasties. China: The Commercial Press, 2015; pp. 287. (pages 448–449) Yue Feng Version of Record online: 28 AUG 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12374