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Articles in June, 2007 issue of Church History

• From peoplehood to church membership: Mormonism's trajectory since World War II
  by Jan Shipps
• The lives and literary roles of children in advancing conversion to Christianity: hagiography from the Caucasus in late antiquity and the middle ages
  by Cornelia B. Horn
• Agnes of Harcourt, Felipa of Porcelet, and Marguerite of Oingt: women writing about women at the end of the thirteenth century
  by Sean L. Field
• Fasting, piety, and political anxiety among French reformed Protestants
  by Raymond A. Mentzer
• "Bad things" and "good hearts": mediation, meaning, and the language of Illinois Christianity
  by Tracy Neal Leavelle
• Christianity and the Secular
  by James Wetzel
• Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
  by Joseph W. Trigg
• A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II 408-450
  by Michael G. Azar
• Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity
  by Thomas J. Davis
• Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
  by Christine Shepardson
• The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150
  by Thomas F.X. Noble
• International Mobility in the Military Orders : Traveling on Christ's Business
  by Malcolm Barber
• Pre-Reformation Religious Dissent in the Netherlands, 1518-1530
  by Christine Kooi
• John Calvin as Teacher, Pastor, and Theologian: The Shape of His Writings and Thought
  by John Kelsay
• Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
  by Jeffrey Burton Russell
• Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England
  by Nancy Bradley Warren
• Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750
  by Charmarie J. Blaisdell
• Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation
  by Donald K. McKim
• The Church of Mary Tudor
  by Michael Questier
• Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England
  by W. Clark Gilpin
• The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought
  by Michael Ruse
• Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700
  by Dale Walden Johnson
• The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850
  by Garry J. Crites
• Gathering to His Name: The Story of Open Brethren in Britain and Ireland
  by Richard E. Wood
• Auden and Christianity
  by Allen Dunn
• Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
  by James O. Duke
• The Papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust
  by Suzanne Brown-Fleming
• Church and State in Late Imperial Russia: Critics of the Synodal System of Church Government
  by Scott M. Kenworthy
• City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain
  by Santa Arias
• Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment
  by John M. Headley
• The World of John Winthrop: Essays on England and New England 1588-1649
  by James G. Moseley
• Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America
  by Dan McKanan
• The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico
  by Christopher Vecsey
• Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City
  by Sandy Dwayne Martin
• The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era
  by Kathryn Lofton
• Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
  by Paul Westermeyer
• A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina
  by Suzanne Geissler
• The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
  by Curtis J. Evans
• Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World
  by Richard G. Kyle
• Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias
  by Daniel Sack
• The Fourth R: Conflicts over Religion in America's Public Schools
  by Tracy Fessenden
• A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion
  by Robert C. Fuller
• God in Public: Four Ways American Christianity and Public Life Relate
  by Mark Silk
• Apostle to the Wilderness: Bishop John Medley and the Evolution of the Anglican Church
  by Alan L. Hayes
• The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970
  by Mark A. Noll
• The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus
  by Rachel Sarah O'Toole
• Cross and Flag in Africa: The "White Fathers" during the Colonial Scramble
  by Emma Wild-Wood
• Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848
  by Michael C. Lazich
• Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters: Continuity in the Catholic-Jewish Encounter
  by Kevin Madigan
• Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History
  by Dale B. Martin
• The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy
  by Peter W. Williams
• Books received
• Minutes of the American Society of Church History annual business meeting