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Articles in March, 2008 issue of Church History

• The celibate bridegroom and his virginal brides: metaphor and the marriage of Jesus in early Christian ascetic exegesis
  by Elizabeth A. Clark
• Siblings and the sexes within the medieval religious life
  by Fiona J. Griffiths
• 17th century AD
  by Paul Scott
• The religious heritage of the British northwest and the rise of Mormonism
  by Stephen J. Fleming
• Saint Apolo from Europe, or "What's in a Luganda name?"
  by Emma Wild-Wood
• "No mystery God": black religions of the flesh in pre-war urban America
  by Clarence E. Hardy, III
• A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
  by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
• Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe
  by Janet Timbie
• The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian
  by Arthur Holder
• Plenitude of Power: The Doctrine and Exercise of Authority in the Middle Ages; Essays in Memory of Robert Louis Benson
  by Jason Taliadoros
• Rievaulx Abbey and its Social Context, 1132-1300: Memory, Locality, and Networks
  by E. Rozanne Elder
• Law and Theology in Twelfth-Century England: The Works of Mater Vacarius
  by John E. Lynch
• Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond
  by Lynn Jones
• Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England
  by Nancy Bardley Warren
• Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, c. 1400-1700
  by Lisa McClain
• Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  by Lee Palmer Wandel
• Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church
  by Peter Matheson
• Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education
  by David M. D'Andrea
• Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters
  by Peter Marshall
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture
  by Gretchen E. Minton
• Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
  by Richard Kyle
• The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour
  by Peter W. Williams
• Benedict Poiger, Theologia Ex-magica oder: Theologie ohne Hexen und Zauberer . Mit einem Anhang: Ferdinand Sterzinger—Von dem gemeinen Vorurtheile der wirkenden und thatigen Hexerey
  by H.C. Erik Midelfort
• A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism
  by Stephen W. Angell
• Lining out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans
  by Wallace Best
• Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith
  by Rick Kennedy
• Painting the Bible: Representation of Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain
  by Virginia C. Raguin
• Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England
  by Hugh McLeod
• Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919
  by Quincy D. Newell
• Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
  by Alvyn Austin
• Religious Culture in Modern Mexico
  by Timothy Matovina
• Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia's "Little Italy."
  by Joseph P. Chinnici
• Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past
  by Marian Ronan
• Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review
  by Nadia M. Lahutsky
• Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era
  by Kathleen Sprows Cummings
• W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet
  by Lewis V. Baldwin
• Evangelical From the Beginning: The Story of the Evangelical Congregational Church
  by Margaret Bendroth
• An Archbishop for the People: The Life of Edward J. Hanna
  by Patricia O'Connell Killen
• Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
  by Nancy A. Hardesty
• The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism
  by William L. Sachs
• Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Church of Christ
  by Amy DeRogatis
• Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
  by R. Marie Griffith
• Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen
  by J. Jeffery Tyler
• Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From the New Testament to the Council of Trent
  by Maxwell E. Johnson
• Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More
  by Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.
• A History of Global Anglicanism
  by Robert Bruce Mullin
• An Introduction to Quakerism
  by Thomas D. Hamm
• Modern Christian Thought: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century
  by Inese Radzins
• The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico
  by Martin Nesvig
• There before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry
  by Molly Oshatz
• Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics
  by John Kelsay
• Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture
  by Matthew S. Hedstrom
• Books received