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Joseph Martos and Pierre Hégy, eds Equal at the Creation: Sexism, Society and Christian Thought Michael D. Coogan, ed. The Oxford History of the Biblical World Jon D. Mikalson Religion in Hellenistic Athens Wendy Dabourne Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16–4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters David C. Sim The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community George A. Kennedy Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times Khaled Anatolios Athanasius: The Coherence of his Thought Joseph W. Trigg Origen. The Early Church Fathers Rebecca Moore Jews and Christians in the Life and Thought of Hugh of St Victor Alan J. Fletcher Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late‐Medieval England Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen, eds Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment H. J. Selderhuis, trans. by John Briend and Lyle D. Bierma Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer John Patrick Donnelly, SJ and Michael W. Maher, SJ, eds Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France, and Spain. Kevin Herlihy, ed. Propagating the Word of Irish Dissent, 1650–1800 Joss Marsh Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth‐Century England David Nash Blasphemy in Modern Britain, 1789 to the Present Kathryn Teresa Long The Revival of 1857–58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening Ruth Frappell, Leighton Frappell, Robert Withycombe and Raymond Nobbs, eds Anglicans in the Antipodes: An Indexed Calendar of the Papers and Correspondence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 1788–1961, Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Mark Hutchinson and Geoff Treloar, eds This Gospel Shall Be Preached: Essays on the Australian Contribution to World Mission Ian Gillman and Hans‐Joachim Klimkeit Christians in Asia Before 1500 Geoffrey Oddie, ed. Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto‐Nationalism: James Long of Bengal, 1814–87     

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Books reviewed: Douglas C. Langston, Conscience and Other Virtues Julius Wellhausen, The Pharisees and Sadducees: An Examination of Internal Jewish History H. Gregory Snyder, Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World: Philosophers, Jews and Christians Mathew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch. Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity Frank R. Trombley and John W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo–Joshua the Stylite Michael Whitby, The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen. Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (eds), Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England Bernhard Lohse, Martin Luther's Theology. Its Historical and Systematic Development Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532–1546 Gonther Gassmann with Duane H. Larson and Mark W. Oldenburg, Historical Dictionary of Lutheranism Ashley Null, Thomas Cranmer's Doctrine of Repentance David M. Luebke (ed.), The Counter–Reformation: The Essential Readings Michael A. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation Ramie Targoff, Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England Maureen Perkins, The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity Charles D. Cashdollar, A Spiritual Home. Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915 D. Densil Morgan, The Span of the Cross: Christian Religion and Society in Wales 1914–2000 Callum C. Brown, The Death of Christian Britain Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth–Century France Robert P. Geraci and Michel Khodarkovsky (eds), Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse (eds), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans James E. Tull, High–Church Baptists in the South: the Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism Betty A. Deberg, Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism John Tonkin, Cathedral and Community. A History of St George's Cathedral, Perth Peter Riddell, Islam and the Malay–Indonesian World Joan Rowlands, Voluntary Exiles: From Tamatave to Peking Barry J. Richardson, Christianity, Evolution and the Environment. Fitting it Together David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond, The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders Ian S. Markham and Tinu Ruparell (eds), Encountering Religion     

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Book Reviews in this Article: An Index to English Periodical Literature on the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, William G. Hupper (ed.). Chibnall Marjorie : The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English. Ann Eljenholm Nichols : Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments, 1350-1544. Eamon Duffy : The Stripping of the Altars; Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400- c. 1580. Patrick Collinson : Elizabethan Essays Michael A. R. Graves : Thomas Norton: The Parliament Man. Linda Timmermans : L'accès des femmes à la culture, 1598-1698 Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context, Bernard Thorogood. (ed.). Curtis D. Johnson : Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War. Mark Y. Hanley : Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830-1860. Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change: Eastern Europe and Latin America, Luther Martin (ed.). Re-Visioning Australian Colonial Christianity: New Essays in the Australian Experience, 1788-1900, Mark Hutchinson and Edmund Campion (eds). Reviving Australia: Essays on the History and Experience of Revival and Revivalism in Australian Christianity, Mark Hutchinson, Edmund Campion and Stuart Piggin (eds). Walter Phillips : James Jefferis: Prophet of Federation. Allan K. Davidson : Selwyn's Legacy: The College of St John the Evangelist, Te Waimate and Auckland, 1843-1992: A History.     

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Book reviewed in this article: M. G. Wiltshire : Ascetic Figures Before and in Early Buddhism: The Emergence of Gautama the Buddha (Religion and Reason 30, gen. ed. J. Waardenburg) P. G. Griffiths , N. Hakamaya , J. P. Keenan and P. L. Swanson (eds and trans): The Realm of A wakening: A Translation of and Study of the Tenth Chapter of Asan̊ga's Mahay anasan̊graha. Graeme Clarke , Brian Croke , Alanna Emmett Nobbs and Raoul Mortley (eds): Reading the Past in Late Antiquity. Alister E. Mc Grath : Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough. Ian Tyrrell : Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. Patricia Grimshaw : Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii Mary Zwiep : Pilgrim Path. The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii John P. Maguire : Prologue: A History of the Catholic Church as Seen from Townsville 1863–1983. W. J. Lawton : The Better Time to Be: Utopian Attitudes to Society among Sydney Anglicans, 1885 to 1914. Madeleine Sophie Mc Grath : These Women? Women Religious in the History of Australia: The Sisters of Mercy Parramatta 1888–1988.     

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Books reviewed: Marcia L. Colish Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition 400–1400 Adriann H. BrederoBernard of Clairvaux: Between Cult and History John Howe Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh‐Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons Michael T. Clanchy Abelard: A Medieval Life Vicente Castell Maiques, ed. Proceso Sobre la Ordenación de la Iglesia Valentina, 1238–1246, Vols I and II Ma. Milagros Cárcel Ortí and José Vicente Boscá Codina, eds Visitas Pastorales de Valencia: Siglos XIV–XV Vicent Luïs Simó Santonja, ed. Les Corts Valencianes: 1240–1645 Jan Veenstra: Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France Text and Context of Laurens Pignon’s Contre les devineurs (1411) Marilyn Oliva The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England. Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich, 1350–1540 Abraham Friesen Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission Mark W. Konnert Civic Agendas and Religious Passion: Châlons‐sur‐Marne During the French Wars of Religion, 1560–1594 David Coffey Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford Thomas F. Torrance Scottish Theology: From John Knox to John McLeod Campbell Geoffrey R. Treloar Lightfoot the Historian: The Nature and Role of History in the Life and Thought of J. B. Lightfoot (1828–1889) as Churchman and Scholar Jonathan Sarna, ed. Minority Faiths and the American Protestant Mainstream Michael Glazer and Thomas J. Shelley, eds The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History Bryan F. Le Beau Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism Bret E. Carroll Spiritualism in Antebellum America Joel A. Carpenter Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism James T. Fisher Dr America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau, eds African‐American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture Tracy Elaine K’Meyer Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm Dana L. Robert American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice John Garrett Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II Jamsheed K. Choksy Con?ict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Sub‐alterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society Dennis Hirota No Abode: The Record of Ippen Angelo Zito Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacri?ce as Text/Performance in Eighteenth‐Century China Liz Wilson Charming Cadavers: Horri?c Con?gurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature Geoffrey A. Oddie (ed.) Religious Traditions in South Asia: Interaction and Change     

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Books reviewed: Stan ‐Michel Pellistrandi , Gesche Landais , and Christine Pellistrandi (eds), Le Nain de Tillemont et l’historiagraphie de l’Antiquité romaine. Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Wolfgang Stegemann (eds), The Jesus Movement. A Social History of its First Century. Kathleen Kamerick , Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500. Michael P. Carroll , Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. John Wilkinson , Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Tomaz Mastnak , Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Sharon Farmer , Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor. John W. O'Malley , Trent and all That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era. Karin J. Mac Hardy , War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interactions. Jeffrey R. Watt , Choosing Death. Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Felicity Heal , Reformation in Britain and Ireland. David Boyd Haycock , William Stukeley. Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England. Francis Harris , Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. Robert Hymes , Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Anthony O'Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion, and Politics. Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History. Pat Jalland , Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918. Colin Holden (ed.), People of the Past? The Culture of Melbourne Anglicanism and Anglicanism in Melbourne's Culture: Papers to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, 1847–1997. Kenneth P. Serbin , Secret Dialogues: Church‐State Relations, Torture and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Yamaji Aizan , Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. Thich Nhat Hanh , compiled by Jack Lawlor , Friends on the Path — Living Spiritual Communities. Armand L. Mauss , All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Perceptions of Race and Lineage. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton (eds), Women and Twentieth‐Century Protestantism. Anthony O'Mahony and Atuallah Siddiqui (eds), Christians and Muslims in the Commonwealth: A Dynamic Role in the Future.     

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Books Reviewed: L. E. Semler (ed.), Eliza’s Babes: Or The Virgins–Offering (1652) A Critical Edition Hilary Hinds (ed.), The Cry of a Stone by Anna Trapnel Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke (eds), Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales Deirdre Beddoe, Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth Century Wales Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (eds), Women in British Politics, 1760–1860: The Power of the Petticoat Helen Rogers, Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth–Century England Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.), Radical Femininity: Women’s Self–representation in the Public Sphere Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833 Kathi Kern, Mrs Stanton’s Bible Janice Holmes, Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland 1859–1905 Andrea Ebel Bro?yna, Labour, Love and Prayer: Female Piety in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850–1914 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Britain Elizabeth Dore (ed.), Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds), Hidden Histories of Gender and State in Latin America John D. French and Daniel James (eds), The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers Maxine Molyneux, Women’s Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria–Santiago (eds), Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean Elizabeth Rose, A Mother’s Job: The History of Day Care 1890–1960 Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie (eds), The Gendered Kiwi Caroline Daley, Girls & Women, Men & Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886–1930 Mary Hilton and Pamela Hirsch (eds), Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790–1930 Elizabeth Edwards, Women in Teacher Training Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence and Gill Perry (eds), Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge, c. 1790–1900     

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Books reviewed: John Drane, Introducing the New Testament Alan Kreider (ed.), The Origins of Christendom in the West G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (eds), Interpreting Late Antiquity Essays on the Postclassical World Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (eds), Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity Conrad Leyser, Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great Yuri Stoyanov, The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy Alain Boureau, The Myth of Pope Joan Euan Cameron, Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser (eds), Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr‐Harting Constant J. Mews (ed.), Listen, Daughter the Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians Brad S. Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modem Europe Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation Peter Lake, The Boxmaker's Revenge: “Orthodoxy,”“Heterodoxy,” and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London Tim Cooper, Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth‐Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism D. Bruce Hindmarsh, John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction Alister E. McGrath, The Christian Theology Reader Alister E. McGrath, Christian Literature: An Anthology Mark Noll, American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction Charles Sowerwine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society Stewart J. Brown, The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801–46 Catherine L. Albanese, American Spiritualities: A Reader Leigh Eric Schmidt, Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism Ian Crawford: We Won the Victory. Aborigines and Outsiders on the North‐West Coast of the Kimberley David Jobling, Tina Pippin, and Ronald Schleiffer (eds), The Postmodern Bible Reader John D. Caputo, On Religion Mikael Rothstein (ed.), New Age Religion and Globalization Slavoj Zizek, On Belief     

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Books reviewed: Arnold Hermann , To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides: The Origins of Philosophy. G. R. Evans (ed.), The First Christian Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church. Elizabeth A. Castelli , Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion). Frederick B. Davis , The Jew and Deicide: The Origin of an Archetype. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri (eds), Women and Faith. Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Anthony Kenny , A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume Two: Medieval Philo‐sophy. Joshua Trachtenberg , Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Charles Christopher Mierow , trans., Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. Dianne Hall , Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140–1540. Matthew Levering , Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Maribel Fierro (ed.), Judíos y Musulmanes en al‐Andalus y el Magreb Contactos Intelectuales. Alessandro Barbero , Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Anne Winston ‐Allen , Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Theresa Coletti , Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England. Anneke B. Mulder ‐Bakker , Lives of the Anchoresses. The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Virginia Nixon , Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe. Eamon Duffy , Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. Robert Frykenberg (ed.) and Alain Low , assoc. (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross‐Cultural Communication since 1500. Alister E. McGrath , The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation, 2d ed. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Bernard Joassart , Érudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondence. Presentation, édition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. Michiel Wielema , The March of the Libertines. Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750). William Gibson , Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676–1761. Paul E. Kerry , Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. John Harvey (ed.). Edmund Jones, The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales. Roger Lee Brown (ed.), The Letters of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828–1849. R. Tudor Jones , Congregationalism in Wales. R. Tudor Jones , Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales 1890–1914. Raymond Brady Williams , Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration. Lawrence Rigel and Rosita Rosenberg , Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years. Daniel Carey (ed.), Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Maria Hsia Chang , Falun Gong: The End of Days. Heinz Halm , Shi ‘ism. Adrian Hastings , Alistair Mason , and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Alister E. McGrath , Theology: The Basics. Margaret Miles , The Word Made Flesh. A History of Christian Thought. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology. Jack Goody , Islam in Europe. Robert Haight , Christian Community in History: Vol. 1, Historical Ecclesiology. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie (eds), History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Jorgen Nielson , Muslims in Western Europe. John David Dawson , Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity. Nils Holger Petersen , Mette Birkedal Bruun , Jeremy Llewellyn , and Eyolf Østrem (eds), The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification.     

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Books Reviewed: David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin, Conserving Forest Biodiversity: a Comprehensive, Multiscaled Approach John Dargavel, Diane Hart and Brenda Libbis (eds), Perfumed Pineries: Environmental History of Australia's Callitris Forests M. Cotter, B. Boyd and J. Gardiner (eds), Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place and Communities Clem Tisdell (ed.), The Economics of Tourism Arthur J. Conacher (ed.), Land Degradation D.M.J.S. Bowman and S.L. Farrer (eds), Measuring and Imagining: Exploring Centuries of Australian Landscape Change Fiona J. Dyer, Martin C. Thoms and Jon M. Olley (eds), The Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems     

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Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey (eds), Engendering Archaeology W. J. Shells and Diana Wood (eds), Women in the Church Penelope D. Johnson, Equal in Monastic Profession, Religious Women in Medieval France Sally Thompson, Women Religious Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd (eds), Women in Early Modem Ireland 1500–1800 Lawrence Stone, Road to Divorce: England 1530–1987 Robert B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725 Marina Benjamin (ed.), Science and Sensibility, Gender and Scientific Enquiry 1780–1945 Sian Reynolds, Britannica's Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian Edinburgh Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach (eds), The World is III Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leah Leneman, A Guid Cause. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland Angela V. John (ed.), Our Mothers’Land. Chapters in Welsh Women's History 1830–1939 Harold L. Smith (ed.), British Feminism in the Twentieth Century June E. Hahner, Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850–1940 Jane S. Jaquette (ed.), The Women's Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl. Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation David Tyack and Elizabeth Hansot, Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools Lynn D. Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era Ileen A. DeVault, Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh Lisa M. Fine, The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870–1930 Stephen H. Norwood, Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878–1923 Nancy F. Cott (ed.), A Woman Making History. Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters Jackie Byars, All That Hollywood Allows. Re-reading Gender Melodrama     

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Books reviewed: Philip C. Almond , Adam and Eve in Seventeenth‐Century Thought. Peter Smith (ed.), Bahá’ís in the West. Aaron Milavec , The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Community. Terry J. Tekippe , Bernard Lonergan: An Introductory Guide to Insight. Norman Roth , Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Mark Freeman , The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: A Study in Quaker Philanthropy and Adult Education 1904–1954. Laurie Guy , Introducing Early Christianity: A Topical Survey of Its Life, Beliefs and Practices. Heather Hendershot , Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck (eds), Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Máire de Paor , Saint MoLing Luachra. R. N. Swanson (ed.), The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History: Papers Read at the 1999 Summer Meeting and the 2000 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.     

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Barlow, Frank, (ed) The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy Bishop of Amiens Benericetti, Ruggero, Il Cristo nei Sermoni di S. Pier Crisologo Blackburn, Mark A.S. and Dumville, David N., (eds.) Kings, Currency and Alliances: History of Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century Bolòs, Jordi and Hurtado, Victor, Atles del Comtat de Besalú (785–988) Bolòs, Jordi and Busqueta, Joan J., (eds) Territori i Societat a l'Edat Mitjana. Història, Arqueologia, Documentació II: Almenar, 1147–1997, 850 anys de la Carta de Poblament Borge, Ignacio Álvarez, Comunidades locales y transformaciones sociales en la Alta Edad Media. Hampshire (Wessex) y el sur de Castilla, un estudio comparativo Borgolte, Michael, Sozialgeschichte des Mittelalters. Eine Bilanz nach der deutschen Einheit Brubaker, Leslie, Vision and Meaning in Ninth‐century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus Carver, Martin, Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? Clanchy, M.T., Abelard: a Medieval Life Davis, R.H.C. and Chibnall, Marjorie, (eds) The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers Dodwell, C.R., Anglo‐Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage Everson, Paul, and Stocker, David, Corpus of Anglo‐Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume 5: Lincolnshire Freedman, Paul, Images of the Medieval Peasant Goetz, H.‐W. and Sauerwein, F. (eds) Volkskultur und Elitenkultur im frühen Mittelater: das Beispiel der Heiligenviten Guido, Margaret, The Glass Beads of Anglo‐Saxon England c. AD 400–700 Hawkes, Jane and Mills, Susan,(eds) Northumbria's Golden Age Hill, Joyce and Swan, Mary, (eds) The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe Hooke, Della, Warwickshire Anglo‐Saxon Charter‐Bounds Howe, John, Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh‐century Italy: Dominic of Sora and his Patrons Jestice, Phyllis G., Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century McGrail, Seán, Ancient Boats in North‐West Europe. The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500 Magennis, Hugh, Anglo‐Saxon Appetites. Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature Müller‐Wille, Michael, (ed) Rom und Byzanz im Norden. Mission und Glaubenswechsel im Ostseeraum während des 8.–14. Jahrhunderts, Band II, Internationale Fachkonferenz der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Verbindung mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Kiel, 18.–25. September 1994 Neville, Jennifer, Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry Pörnbacher, Mechthild, (ed.) Walahfrid Strabo Zwei Legenden Potter, T.W., and King, A.C., Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato Saenger, Paul, Space between Words: the Origins of Silent Reading Schneidmüller, Bernd and Weinfurter, Stefan, (eds.) Otto III. Heinrich II. Eine Wende? Toswell,M.J., and Tyler, E.M., (eds.) Studies in English Language and Literature. ‘Doubt wisely’: Papers iin Honour of E.G. Stanley Van Houts, Elisabeth, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200 Van Houts, Elisabeth M.C., (ed) The Gesta Normannorum ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, Volume II, Books V–VIII Wright, Roger, Early Ibero‐Romance     

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Book review in this Article
B. W. J ones and R. D. M ilns (eds): The Use of Documentary Evidence in the Study of Roman Imperial History (Sources in Ancient History).
H arro H öpfl : The Christian Polity of John Calvin.
W alter K laassen (ed.): Anabaptism in Outline: Selected Primary Sources.
N orman M acdougall (ed.): Church, Politics and Society.
H arold P erkins : The Convict Priests.
J ames W aldersee : A Grain of Mustard Seed: The Society for the Propagation of the Faith and Australia, 1837–1977.
D onal A. K err : Peel, Priests and Politics.     

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Books reviewed: William Baird , History of New Testament Research. Volume Two: From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann. Clinton Bennett , In Search of Jesus: Insider and Outsider Images. Anthony J. Blasi , Jean Duhaime , and Paul ‐André Turcotte (eds), Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches. Sara S. Poor , Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority. Fergus Kerr , After Aquinas. Versions of Thomism. Elizabeth Vandiver , Ralph Keen , and Thomas D. Frazel , Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther. James Veazie Skalnik , Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume LX. Philip O’Regan , Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650–1729) and the Constitution in Church and State. David L. Graizbord , Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580–1700. Eric Lund (ed.), Documents from the History of Lutheranism 1517–1750. Matt Goldish , The Sabbatean Prophets. Richard C. Foltz , Frederick M. Denny , and Aziz Baharuddin (eds), Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust. Victoria Nelson : The Secret Life of Puppets. Ronald M. Davidson (ed), Indian Esoteric Buddhism, A Social History of the Tantric Movement. Ian J. Shaw , High Calvinists in Action: Calvinism and the City, Manchester and London 1810–1860. Paul Shore , The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Late Baroque Prague. Deryck W. Lovegrove (ed), The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism. Sheryl A. Kujawa ‐Holbrook (ed), Freedom is a Dream: A Documentary History of Women in the Episcopal Church. Clifford Putney , Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. Neil L. Whitehead , Dark Shamans — Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Moss Roberts , Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way: Laozi. W. H. Mc Leod , Who is a Sikh? The Problem of Sikh Identity. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Gareth Jones (ed), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology.     

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R. Horsley , ed.: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 1, Christian Origins. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005. Irfan Shahîd : Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Vol. 2, Part 1: Toponomy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002; pp. xxxvi + 469, 15 maps, 8 plates. Daniel Hobbins : The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Ernan Mc Mullin , ed.: The Church and Galileo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. pp. xii + 408. Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands , eds.: Scottish Christianity in the Modern World. Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000. pp. 323. Adrian Burdon : Authority and Order: John Wesley and his Preachers. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. pp. vi + 117. Max Charlesworth , Françoise Dussart and Howard Morphy , eds.: Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. pp. xiv + 324. André Möller : Ramadan in Java: The Joy and Jihad of Ritual Fasting. Lun University: Lund, Sweden, 2005. pp. 451. John Clifford Holt : The Buddhist Viṣnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. pp. 441. Kristi L. Wiley : Historical Dictionary of Jainism. Lanham, ML: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004. pp. 287. Iqbal Singh , S. Radhakrishan , and Arvind Sharma , with an introduction by Matthew T. Kapstein : The Buddhism Omnibus — Comprising Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada and The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. xxii + 818. Aline H. Kalbian : Sexing the Church: Gender, Power, and Ethics in Contemporary Catholicism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. pp. x + 169. Dianne Kirby , ed.: Religion and the Cold War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. pp. 245. Nils Holger Petersen , Claus Clüver , and Nicholas Bell , eds.: Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and Their Representations in the Arts, 1000–2000. Amsterdam and New York: Rodpi, 2004. pp. xvi + 490. Craig Wright : The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology and Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard (eds.): Mystics: Presence and Aporia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Frances S. Adeney : Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003; pp. xi + 226. John Moorhead : Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World, Harlow Essex, Pearson Education, 1999.     

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Book review in this article: Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh David F. Noble, A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science Jutta Schwarzkopf, Women in the Chartist Movement Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle Class. Explorations in Feminism and History Ed Cohen, Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities June Purvis, A History of Women's Education in England Felicity Hunt, Gender and Policy in English Education. Schooling for Girls 1902-1944 Andrew Davies, Leisure, Gender and Poverty. Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1939 Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding (eds) Workers’Worlds. Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939 Jo Fisher, Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) Viva: Women and Popular Protest in Latin America Manchester Women's History Group Bibliography Project, Resources for Women's History in Greater Manchester Clare Whiteman and Richard Storey, Women at Work and in Society. Modern Records Centre Sources Booklet No 1 Michelle Perrot (ed.) Writing Women's History Joke J. Hermsen and Alkeline van Lenning (eds) Sharing the Difference. Feminist Debates in Holland Hillary Hinds, Ann Phoenix and Jackie Stacey (eds) Working Out. New Directions for Women's Studies Karen Often, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall (eds) Writing Women's History: International Perspectives     

Book Notes

Martin Katzman, Cities and Frontiers in Brazil Philip Musgrove, Consumer Behavior in Latin America (An ECIEL Study) William R. Cline and Enrique Delgado, eds., Economic Integration in Central America Wayne A. Cornelius and Robert V. Kemper, eds., Metropolitan Latin America: The Challenge and the Response James M. Malloy, ed., Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America Merilee S. Grindle, Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy COURTS, CRIME, AND LAW Richard Lehne, The Quest for Justice: The Politics of School Finance Reform Ray C. Jeffrey, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Linda Medcalf, Law and Identity: Lawyers. Native Americans and Legal Practice Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Freedom of the Press vs. Public Access Lawrence A. Gooberman, Operation Intercept: The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy Milton Heumann, Plea Bargaining: The Experiences of Prosecutors, Judges and Defense Attorneys enneth C. Laudon, Communications Technology and Democratic Participation Raymond Bowers, Alfred M. Lee, and Cary Hershey, eds., Communications for a Mobile Society: An Assessment of New Technology Roy Bahl, ed., The Fiscal Outlook for Cities: Implications of a National Urban Policy Mark Gottdiener, Planned Sprawl: Private and Public Interests in Suburbia Anthony James Catanese and W. Paul Farmer, eds., Personality, Politics and Planning: How City Planners Work Robert L. Lineberry, Equality and Urban Policy: The Distribution of Municipal Public Services John J. Harrigan and William C. Johnson, Governing the Twin Cities Region, The Metropolitan Council in Comparative Perspective D. S. Chauhan, Public Labor Relations: A Comparative State Study A. Lawrence Chickering, ed., Public Employee Unions: A Study of the Crisis in Public Sector Labor Relations Martin Binkin and Shirley J. Bach, Women and the Military Martin Binkin, with Herschel Ranter and Rolf H. Clark, Shaping the Defense Civilian Work Force: Economics, Politics, and National Security Richard K. 3etts, Soldiers. Statesmen, and Cold War Crises Selig Harrison, China. Oil, and Asia; Conflict Ahead? J. T. Pempel, ed., Policymakinq in Contemporary Japan Fred H. Sanderson, Japan's Food Prospects and Policies A. Doak Barnett, China and the Major Powers in East Asia Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Tactical Nuclear Weapons: European Perspectives Thomas H. Etzold and John Lewis Gaddis, eds., Containments: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945-1950 William O. McCagg, Jr., Stalin Embattled. 1943-1948 Barry B. Hughes, The Domestic context of American Foreign Policy     

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Books reviewed: Lynette Olson, ed., Religious Change, Conversion and Culture Tord Fornberg and David Hellholm, eds, Texts and Contexts: BiblicalTexts in Their Textual and Situational Contexts Judith Lieu, Image and Reality: The Jews in the World of theChristians in the Second Century Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagasteto Teresa of Avila W. David Myers, ‘Poor Sinning Folk’: Confession and Conscience in Counter‐Reformation Germany A. Lynn Martin, Plague? Jesuit Accounts of Epidemic Disease inthe 16th Century Francis Edwards, SJ, Robert Persons: The Biography of an ElizabethanJesuit, 1546‐1610 Peter Kaufman, Prayer, Despair, and Drama. ElizabethanIntrospection Nigel Aston, ed., Religious Change in Europe, 1650‐1914: Essaysfor John McManners Alan P. F. Sell, John Locke and the Eighteenth‐Century Divines B. W. Young: Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth‐Century England, Theological Debate from Locke to Burke Simon Ross Valentine, John Bennet and the Origins of Methodismand the Evangelical Revival in England Peter Nockles, The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican HighChurchmanship, 1760‐1857 Susannah Heschel, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus Adrian Desmond, Huxley: Evolution’s High Priest M. Gauvreau and N. Christie, A Full‐Orbed Christianity: TheProtestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900‐1940 M. R. MacGinley, A Dynamic of Hope: Institutes of Women Religiousin Australia Catherine Kovesi Killerby, Ursula Frayne: A biography Antony Copley, Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contactand Conversion in Late‐Colonial India Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Religions of China in Practice