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Author(s) -
Benjamin Myers
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2007.00590.x
Subject(s) - piety , state (computer science) , colonialism , empire , islam , fortress (chess) , religious studies , theology , history , indigenous , brother , sociology , ancient history , philosophy , anthropology , archaeology , ecology , algorithm , biology , computer science
G abriel A. A lmond , R. S cott A ppleby , and E mmanuel S ivan : Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World . Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. C raig D. A twood : Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem . University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004; pp. xi + 283. N ora B erend : At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and “Pagans” in Medieval Hungary, c. 1000‐1300 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; pp. 340. P eggy B rock , ed.: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change . Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2005; pp. x + 262. M artinus C awley , trans.: Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulfus, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut . Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003; pp. xlvii + 258. J. P. D aughton : An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880‐1914 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 330. K haled E l ‐R ouayheb : Before Homosexuality in the Arab‐Islamic World, 1500‐1800 . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005; pp. x + 210. J. A lbert H arrill : Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social and Moral Dimensions . Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. T imothy I nsoll : Archaeology, Ritual, Religion . London: Routledge, 2004; pp. 184. J ean ‐R ené Ja nnot : Religion in Ancient Etruria , trans. Jane K. Whitehead. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005; pp. xviii + 230.
N ancy T homson D e G rummond and E rika S imon , eds.: The Religion of the Etruscans . Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 226. C layton N. J efford : The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide . Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. R. M. J ensen : Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity . Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005. S ara R aup J ohnson : Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. S cott F itzgerald J ohnson : The Life and Miracles of Thekla, a Literary Study . Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. M athew K uefler , ed.: The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. pp. 348. A my ‐J ill L evine , D ale C. A llison J , r ,., and J ohn D ominic C rossan , eds.: The Historical Jesus in Context . Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006; pp. x + 440. K eith L uria : Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France . Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005; pp. xxxviii + 357. P eter M cCullough , ed.: Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; p. 491. K ari M iettinen : On the Way to Whiteness: Christianization, Conflict and Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910‐1965 . Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden, 2005; pp. 370. J ohn M ilbank : Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason , 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; pp. 448. L ynette O lson : The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe . Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. xvii + 248. D avid S hankland , ed.: Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage: In the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck, 1878‐1920, 2 vols . Istanbul: Isis, 2005; pp. 495. N igel Y ates : The Religious Condition of Ireland 1770‐1850 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xxiv + 401.