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Recycling the Sacred: Material Culture and Cultural Memory after the English Reformation by Walsham, Alexandra

“…This article examines medieval liturgical artifacts that survived the English Reformation by being converted to alternative religious and secular purposes…”
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“A More Powerful Effect upon the Body”: Early Mormonism's Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race by Stuart, Joseph R.

“…This paper examines Joseph Smith's construction of a racialized theology, which drew upon conceptions of Abrahamic lineage and the possibility of “racial…”
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Christian Yoga: Something New Under the Sun/Son? by Brown, Candy Gunther

“…Between the 1960s and 2010s, yoga became a familiar feature of American culture, including its Christian subcultures. This article examines Christian yoga and…”
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Pope Gregory XVI's Chocolate Enterprise: How Some Italian Clerics Survived Financially During the Napoleonic Era by Korten, Christopher

“…Chocolate has early associations in the West with Spanish Catholic missionaries to America. From the middle of the sixteenth century, chocolate was employed in…”
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The Establishment of the Apostolic Delegation to Palestine, Cyprus, and Transjordan (1929): Cause or Effect of Changes in Vatican Middle East Policy? by Zanini, Paolo

“…This essay brings to light how the establishment of the Apostolic Delegation to Palestine, Cyprus, and Transjordan (1929) marked a turning point in the…”
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From Jewish Apocrypha to Christian Tradition: Citations of Jubilees in Epiphanius's Panarion by Kreps, Anne

“…In the growing canon consciousness of the fourth century, Christians debated what should constitute the official reading list for the church. Epiphanius of…”
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Leadership for the Christian Empire: Emperors and Bishops in the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius by Lankina, Anna

“…The fifth-century Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius is an unusual example of a surviving minority source. Although scholars have mined his work for raw…”
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“I Believe Because it is Absurd”: The Enlightenment Invention of Tertullian's Credo by Harrison, Peter

“…Tertullian is widely regarded as having originated the expression Credo quia absurdum (est) (I believe because it is absurd) and the phrase often appears in…”
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Observant Memory and Propaganda in Johannes of Mainz's Vita fratrum predicatorum conventus Basiliensis (1442–1444) by Huijbers, Anne

“…This article presents an unpublished and largely unexplored source written in Basel during the international church council, the Vita fratrum predicatorum…”
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Mischievous Information: Apostasy, Rituals of Telling, and the Sixteenth-Century Family of Love by Jones, Douglas FitzHenry

“…The Family of Love met with considerable controversy in Elizabethan England. This article examines a series of confessions given by members and ex-members of…”
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“My Temple Should Be a House of Prayer”: The Use and Misuse of Carolingian Churches by Polanichka, Dana M.

“…This essay explores eighth- and early ninth-century Frankish understandings and experiences of churches as holy spaces, arguing that myriad textual genres…”
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All Catholics Are Spiritualists: The Boundary Work of Mary Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols by Riddle, Jonathan D.

“…From the 1840s to the 1870s, the first wave of Spiritualism swept across the Atlantic world. Many social reformers looked to messages from the spiritual realm…”
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Lengua de los indios, lengua española: Religious Conversion and the Languages of New Spain, ca. 1520–1585 by Wasserman-Soler, Daniel I.

“…This article examines the language policies of sixteenth-century Mexico, aiming more generally to illuminate efforts by Mexican bishops to foster conversions…”
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The Disputed Origins of Dutch Calvinism: Religious Refugees in the Historiography of the Dutch Reformation by Spohnholz, Jesse, van Veen, Mirjam G. K.

“…According to historiographical convention, the experience of exile by Protestants from the Habsburg Netherlands between the 1550s and the early 1570s played a…”
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Hans Holbein the Younger and Reformation Bible Production by Price, David H.

“…Hans Holbein the Younger produced a large corpus of illustrations that appeared in an astonishing variety of Bibles, including Latin Vulgate editions,…”
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Evangelist of Fragments: Doing Mite-Box Capitalism in the Late Nineteenth Century by Kaell, Hillary

“…A century ago, the mite box (penny collection box) was ubiquitous in North America as a religious fundraising tool, especially for women and children. Using…”
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Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Nicholas of Cusa, and the Crusade: Conciliar, Imperial, and Papal Authority by Housley, Norman

“…This essay surveys the ways the attitudes of Piccolomini and Cusa toward the initiation of a crusade were shaped by their shifting allegiances between 1432 and…”
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The Age of Reform as an Age of Consolation by Rittgers, Ronald K.

“…This article seeks to provide a new way of interpreting the Age of Reform and its legacy on the occasion of the Protestant Reformation's 500th anniversary…”
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Elijah in Dorset: William Freke and Enthusiasm in England and the Atlantic World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century by Greig, Martin

“…In 1709, William Freke, a pious, well-educated, and well-read English gentleman living in Dorset, declared to the world that he was the second coming of…”
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The Virgin of Guadalupe, Juan Diego, and the Revival of the Tilma Relic in Los Angeles by Noreen, Kirstin

“…Devotion to the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Los Angeles has a complex and multifaceted history. This article will discuss the initial celebrations of…”
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