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David Woodbridge, “Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity: The Brethren in Twentieth-Century China” (Brill, 2019)
David Woodbridge
Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity
The Brethren in Twentieth-Century China
Brill, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 17, 2019 Crawford Gribben

Drawing on new archival resources, and opening up an entirely new research agenda in the field, David Woodbridge has written an outstanding new book. Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity: The Brethren in Twentieth-Century China (Brill, 2019) focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and... Read More
Matthew W. King, “Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Matthew W. King
Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood
A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 16, 2019 Sangseraima Ujeed

After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend... Read More
Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder, “Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice: Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century” (Lexington Books, 2018)
Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder
Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice
Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century
Lexington Books, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 15, 2019 Lilly Goren

Peter Josephson and Ward Holder collaborated on their second book on theologian and political theorist Reinhold Niebuhr in producing this new book, specifically focusing on the questions of “why Niebuhr?” and “why Niebuhr now?” Josephson and Holder note that their “focus is Niebuhr himself and what the encounter between his... Read More
G. R. Lanier and W. Ross, eds., “Septuaginta: A Reader’s Edition” (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018)
Gregory R. Lanier and William Ross
Septuaginta
A Reader's Edition
Hendrickson Publishers, 2018

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 14, 2019 Crawford Gribben

The Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible, compiled over several centuries in circumstances that are largely unknown, are collectively identified as the Septuagint. In recent years, the study of what is sometimes known as “Old Testament Greek” has developed some very important new lexical and other interpretive tools. But many... Read More
Heather R. White, “Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights” (UNC Press, 2015)
Heather R. White
Reforming Sodom
Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
University of North Carolina Press, 2015

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network May 14, 2019 Stephen Colbrook

With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America’s religious and sexual past. In her new book Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights (University of North... Read More
Deonnie Moodie, “The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Deonnie Moodie
The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City
Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian Studies May 13, 2019 Shandip Saha

Dr. Deonnie Moodie is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions at the University of Oklahoma. Her book, The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata (Oxford University Press, 2018), examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata and how that temple has been a... Read More