Today's featured title: "Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy," by Brandon Bloch, Harvard University Press, 2025 @harvardpress.bsky.social @brandonbloch.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Today's featured title: "The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt: How a Runaway Nun Became a Grand Lady of Washington, DC, Society," by Joseph Mannard, Georgetown University Press, 2025 @georgetownup.bsky.social press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Two...

Today's featured title: "Catholic Pacifist: The Long and Lonely Quest of Gordon Zahn," by Benjamin T. Peters, Catholic University of America Press, 2026 www.cuapress.org/978081324009...

Today's featured title: "Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean," by Manuela Ceballos, University of California Press, 2025 @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/betwee...

Today's featured title: "Race Literature: Women Contributors to the A.M.E. Church Review, 1884–1924," by Cynthia Lee Patterson, University Press of Mississippi, 2026 @upmississippi.bsky.social www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Race...

Today's featured title: "Religious Translation in the Early Modern Global World," edited by Luncinda Martin, Routledge, 2026 www.routledge.com/Religious-Tr...

Today's featured title: "The Search for a Rational Faith: Reason and Belief in the History of American Christianity," by Daniel K. Williams, Oxford University Press, 2026 @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Today's featured title: "One True Church: An American Story of Race, Family, and Religion," by Susan B. Ridgely, University of North Carolina Press, 2026 @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969459...

Today's featured title: "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations," by Emily Conroy-Krutz, Cornell University Press, 2026 @cornellupress.bsky.social @econroykrutz.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Today's featured title: "Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution," by D. G. Hart, Notre Dame Press, 2026 @undpress.bsky.social undpress.nd.edu/978026821082...

Our April books of the month list is now available, be sure to check it out! www.churchhistory.org/books-of-the...

Today's featured title: "Parishioners of Sovereignty: A History of Nationhood and War in Nineteenth-Century Paraguay," by Michael Kenneth Huner, University of Nebraska Press, 2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Today's featured title: "Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music," by Kay Norton, University of Illinois Press, 2026 @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

Today's featured title: "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica," by Katharine Gerbner, Duke University Press, 2025 @dukepress.bsky.social @ktgerbs.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Today's featured title: "The Lynches of South Carolina: From Reconstruction to Redemption," edited by Robert Emmett Curran, University of Tennessee Press, 2026 @utpress.bsky.social utpress.org/979889527039...

Today's featured title: "Shrines, Relics, and Saints: Christian Sanctuaries from Late Antiquity Through the Middle Ages," by André Vauchez, Trans. Michael F. Cusato, Cornell University Press, 2026 @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Today's featured title: "Lutheranism and American Culture: The Making of a Distinctive Faith in the Civil War Era," by Timothy D. Grundmeier, Louisiana State University Press, 2026 @lsupress.bsky.social lsupress.org/978080718593...

Today's featured title: "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism," by Steven K. Green, Oxford University Press, 2026 @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

New from me in Church History! I trace an early split between Southern Baptist conservatives over charismatic practices. The split shows how important Baptist identity (rather than generic evangelicalism) was to SBC conservatives in the 1980s. @aschurchhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Today's featured title: "Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology," by Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026 @undpress.bsky.social undpress.nd.edu/978026821074...

Are you a graduate student, independent scholar, or contingent faculty member who studies the history of Christianity? Consider applying for an @aschurchhistory.bsky.social research fellowship. Applications due May 15. Details here: www.churchhistory.org/research-fel...

Today's featured title: "Mormon Barrio: Latino Belonging in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," by Sujey Vega, NYU Press, 2026 @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983384...

Today's featured title: "Ministries of Song: Women's Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity," by Susan Ashbrook Harvey, University of California Press, 2025 @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/minist...

Today's featured title: "Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion," by Tisa Wenger, University of North Carolina Press, 2026 @uncpress.bsky.social @tisawenger.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969362...

Our books of the month list for March is now available! www.churchhistory.org/books-of-the...

Check out the inspiration for the cover image of the September 2025 issue of Church History in a roundtable on Leah Payne, "God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Read about a case study of white religious institutions in the post-civil rights era in "The Limits of Literalism: Race, The Bible, and The Desegregation of Dallas Theological Seminary, 1950–1980" by Shawn Varghese in the September 2025 issue of Church History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Curious about excommunication? Check out "A Double-Edged Sword: Excommunication in Nineteenth-Century French Canada" by Emma Anderson in the September 2025 issue of Church History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Explore a new categorical lens for understanding the politics of mission, conversion, and ecclesiology in "Moravian Missions, Believers, and the Halle-Herrnhut Controversy, 1727–1737," by Benjamin M. Pietrenka in the September 2025 issue of Church History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Learn about a new approach to the apostle Paul’s “allegory” in Galatians 4:21–31 in "The Reformers’ Spectrum of Approaches to Allegory: Reading Galatians 4:21–31 in a Literal Age," by Erik Lundeen in the September 2026 issue of Church History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new issue of Church History is now available, check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today's featured title: "Between Worlds: John A. Broadus, the Southern Baptist Seminary, and the Prospects of the New South," by Eric C. Smith, Louisiana State University Press, 2026 @lsupress.bsky.social lsupress.org/978080718522...

Today's featured title: "China's Church Divided: Bishop Louis Jin and the Post-Mao Catholic Revival," by Paul P. Mariani, Harvard University Press, 2025 @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Today's featured title: "Reforming Community: Music, Religious Change, and English Identity in Mid-Tudor London," by Anne Heminger, Clemson University Press, 2025 @cupress.bsky.social libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/...

Today's featured title: "The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity," by Susanna Elm, University of California Press, 2025 @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/the-im...

Today's featured title: "The Sons of St Augustine: Art and Memory in the Augustinian Churches of Central Italy, 1256–1370," by Kristztina Ilko, Oxford University Press, 2026 @academic.oup.com @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Today's featured title: "The Free Will Baptists: A New History," by J. Matthew Pinson, University of Tennessee Press, 2026. @utpress.bsky.social utpress.org/979889527042...

Today's featured title: "Death and the Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Creating Social Identity and Emotional Communities," by Maria E. Doerfler, Cambridge University Press, 2025 @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Today's featured title: "The Passion of Christ and the Making of Christian Selves in Sixteenth-century Germany," by Vincent Evener, Brill, 2025 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Today's featured title: "Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200," by Scott G. Bruce, Cornell University Press, 2026 @xuthal.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The ASCH is now accepting applications from its graduate student, independent scholar, and contingent faculty members for a research and travel fellowship of $1000. This fellowship supports work in any area of the history of Christianity.

Applications are now open for the John F. Wilson Research Fellowship, which gives priority to projects reflecting the interests and work of Wilson: the religious and intellectual life in the American colonies, the relationship between church and state, and religion in contemporary America. 1/2

Nominations for the Sidney E. Mead Prize are now open, which is granted to an advanced graduate student or recent PhD for the best unpublished article stemming from dissertation research that contributes significantly to its field and to the history of Christianity more broadly. 1/2

Nominations for the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize are now open, which annually honors outstanding scholarship in the history of Christianity by a first-time author. Nominations close April 15, learn more: www.churchhistory.org/asch-awards/...

Nominations for the Albert C. Outler Prize are now open, which annually honors the best book, published in the prior calendar year, that illumines the diversity of global Christianity, issues of Christian unity and disunity (doctrinal, cultural, institutional), 1/2

Nominations are now open for the Philip Schaff Prize, which annually honors the best book in the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year. Nominations are open until April 15, learn more here: www.churchhistory.org/asch-awards/...

Nominations for the 2026 ASCH Book Prizes and Research Fellowships are now open! Learn more: www.churchhistory.org/asch-awards/... Stay tuned as we highlight each of our prizes/fellowships on social media in the coming days!

Today's featured title: "Prime-Time Bishop: Fulton J. Sheen and Religious Celebrity in America," by Alexander Nachaj, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/Books/P/Prim...

Today's featured title: "Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874," by Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr., University of South Carolina Press, 2025 @uscpress.bsky.social uscpress.com/Southern-She...

Today's featured title: "Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions," by Kilian Harrer, University of Virginia Press, 2025 @uvapress.bsky.social www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10138/