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Articles in March, 2009 issue of Church History

• Trent and the clergy in late eighteenth-century Malta
  by Frans Ciappara
• What should Christians do about a shaman-progenitor?: evangelicals and ethnic nationalism in South Korea
  by Timothy S. Lee
• The Great War, religious authority, and the American fighting man
  by Jonathan Ebel
• Japan's Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzo 1861-1930
  by Darrell E. Allen
• The limitations of the genre of the heroic individual biography
  by Gary L. Ebersole
• An impression of J. F. Howes's Japan's Modern Prophet
  by Shibuya Hiroshi
• Response to comments on Japan's Modern Prophet
  by John F. Howes
• Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. AEthelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615
  by Joseph F. Kelly
• Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism
  by Dianne Kirby
• Origen and the History of Justification: The Legacy of Origen's Commentary on Romans
  by Robert J. Hauck
• The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict
  by Michael Whitby
• The Roman Revolution of Constantine
  by Jeremy M. Schott
• Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
  by Dorothy de F. Abrahamse
• The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West
  by Constance H. Berman
• Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c. 900-1200
  by Constant J. Mews
• The Children's Crusade: Medieval History, Modern Mythistory
  by Anne Llewellyn Barstow
• So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc
  by Christine Caldwell Ames
• Picturing the Celestial City: The Medieval Stained Glass of Beauvais Cathedral
  by Mary Weitzel Gibbons
• The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648
  by David J. Collins
• Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament
  by Joseph P. Byrne
• Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents
  by Dale Walden Johnson
• English Hypothetical Universalism: John Preston and the Softening of Reformed Theology
  by Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.
• The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian Reforms, 1633-1641
  by William M. Abbott
• Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System
  by Robert Entenmann
• Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979
  by William H. Brackney
• The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1840
  by E. Brooks Holifield
• Anglicanism and the British Empire, c. 1700-1850
  by John Wolffe
• The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America
  by Ava Chamberlain
• Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century
  by A.G. Roeber
• Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
  by Michael Pasquier
• Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography
  by Randall M. Miller
• Opening China: Karl F. A. Gutzlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827-1852
  by Michael Lazich
• "Ethos" and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism
  by Rowan Strong
• Saving the Holy Sepulchre: How Rival Groups Came Together to Rescue their Holiest Shrine
  by Simon Goldhill
• Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism
  by John Cornwell
• Religion, Identity, and Politics in Northern Ireland: Boundaries of Belonging and Belief
  by Edward J.K. Gitre
• It's a New Day: Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
  by Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews
• From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic
  by Mark Silk
• Religious Liberty in America: the First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
  by Eric Michael Mazur
• Supernaturalism in Christianity: Its Growth and Cure
  by Charles H. Lippy
• Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism; An Historical Analysis of the Theology of Holiness in the Quaker Tradition
  by R. Melvin Keiser
• Wales and the Word: Historical Perspectives on Religion and Welsh Identity
  by Marcella Biro Barton
• Books received
• Joseph in Egypt: Babel, hieroglyphs, and the pure language of Eden
  by Samuel Brown
• Divided By Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe
  by Keith P. Luria
• Law and Conscience: Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570-1625
  by Robert Triseo
• Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia
  by J. Eugene Clay