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: i–iii / First Published: 27 March 2019
ARTICLES
“This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”: Sereno Edwards Bishop, Missionary Religion, and the Hawaiian Islands, 1827–1909 Laavanyan Michael Ratnapalan Pages: 3–24 / First Published: 27 March 2019
In Praise of Heresy: Hus, Luther, and the Ethos of Reformation Thomas A. Fudge Pages: 25–44 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Peter Berger’s Early Work on Baha’i Studies Peter Smith Pages: 45–69 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Athanasian Paganisation of Arius: Unprecedented Application of the Deification Theme Vladimir Kharlamov Pages: 70–82 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Domestic Security: Defending the Evangelical Home in the Southern California Sunbelt David J. Neumann Pages: 83–107 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Christianising a Country: A Genuine Act of Faith or an Exercise in Political Opportunism? On (Questioning) the Authenticity of Medieval Political Conversions — the Case of Poland Adam Cebula Pages: 108–120 / First Published: 27 March 2019
BOOK REVIEWS
Walter Homolka: Jesus Reclaimed: Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene. Translated by Ingrid Shafer. New York and Oxford: Berghan Books, 2015; pp. xxii + 144. Raphael Dascalu Pages: 121–123 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Jeremy Gregory, ed.: The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume II: Establishment and Empire, 1662–1829. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. xxviii + 527. Nicholas Dixon Pages: 123–124 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Stewart J. Brown, Peter B. Nockles, and James Pereiro, eds.: The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. xx + 646. John Moses Pages: 124–126 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Philip Jenkins, Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution that Made our Modern Religious World. New York: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2017; pp. xxxi + 303. Alanna Nobbs Pages: 126–127 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Tim Crane: The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s point of view. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2017; pp. xiv + 207. Ethan G. Quillen Pages: 127–129 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Rowan Strong: Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c. 1840–c1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. Ix + 302. Eric Richards Pages: 129–131 / First Published: 27 March 2019
George Weigel: Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St John Paul II. New York: Basic Books, 2017; pp. 368. Tracey Rowland Pages: 131–133 / First Published: 27 March 2019
Cecilie Brøns and Marie‐Louise Nosch, eds.: Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2017. Ancient Textiles Series 31; pp xiii + 257. Norman Simms Pages: 133–135 / First Published: 27 March 2019
SHAHAB AHMED: Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017; pp. xii + 336. Yahya Sseremba Pages: 135–138 / First Published: 27 March 2019
T. Kirby, P. G. Stanwood, M. Morrissey, and J. N. King, eds.: Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521–1642. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. xxiii +555. Hannah Yip Pages: 139–140 / First Published: 27 March 2019