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 1–2) Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12341
ARTICLES
The Rhetoric of Convention: The Foundational Saul Narratives (1 Samuel 9–11) Reconsidered (pages 3–19) Mark Leuchter Article first published online: 25 MAY 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12274
Reformation Humanist Leonard Stöckel (1510–1560) and the Christian Political Ethics of Erasmus of Rotterdam (pages 20–43) Vasil Gluchman Article first published online: 15 JUN 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12278
Studying Dream Interpretation from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam (pages 44–64) Bronwen Neil Article first published online: 14 APR 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12262
Los Angeles Pentecostals: The Dislocation of a People and the Birth of a Movement (pages 65–81) Timothy P. Helton Article first published online: 4 JUN 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12277
The Ambiguities of Christian Sexual Discourse in Post-War Britain: The British Council of Churches and Its Early Moral Welfare Work (pages 82–103) Laura Monica Ramsay Article first published online: 14 APR 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12259
Instantiating Vision at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (pages 104–131) Patricia Hart Mangan Article first published online: 26 MAY 2015 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12276
BOOK REVIEWS
Samantha Zacher: Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013; pp. xxi + 189. (pages 132–133) Daniel Anlezark Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12320
S. Scott Rohrer: Jacob Green’s Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014; pp. xiv + 304. (pages 134–135) S. Geissler Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12330
Paul Oliver: Hinduism and the 1960s: The Rise of a Counter-Culture. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014; pp. xi + 189. (pages 135–137) A. Burt Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12333
Stuart Scott: A Rising Tide: Evangelical Christianity in New Zealand 1930–65. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2013; pp. 300. (pages 137–138) A. Davidson Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12338
Michael K. Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer, eds.: Buddhist Warfare. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; pp. 272. (pages 139–140) Breann Fallon Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12314
Danielle Kirby: Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives and Digital Cultures. Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2013; pp. ix + 194. (pages 140–141) Helen Farley Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12313
Gawdat Gabra, ed.:Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2014; pp. xxii + 338. (page 142) Iain Gardner Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12331
Heather Sharkey, ed.: Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013; pp. xiv + 328. (pages 143–144) Paul Hedges Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12332
Joanna de Groot and Sue Morgan, eds.: Sex, Gender and the Sacred: Reconfiguring Religion in Gender History. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014; pp ix + 337. (pages 144–146) Robert Hogg Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12340
Amy Appleford: Learning to Die in London, 1380–1540. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; pp. 336. (pages 146–147) M. James Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12335
Marcus Bull and Damien Kempf, eds.: Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014; pp. x + 174. (pages 147–149) J. H. Kane Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12337
Angelika Neuwirt: Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. xl + 470. (pages 149–151) M. LeTourneau Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12336
Molly Worthen: Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. 352 (pages 151–153) J. Tirrell Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12334
M. C. Ricklefs: Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java: A Political, Social, Cultural and Religious History, c. 1930 to Present. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012; pp. 560. (pages 153–155) Dennis Walker Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12326
Philip Jenkins ed.: Remembering Armageddon: Religion and the First World War. Waco, TX: ISR Books, 2015; pp. vi +110. (page 155) John Wolffe Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12339
Carol Richards: Columbanus: Poet, Preacher, Statesman, Saint. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010; pp. 217. (pages 156–157) Jonathan Wooding Article first published online: 2 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12284