This Week's Acquisitions
- Cottage Stories, Published by the Christian Tract Society (J. Chapman, 1845). Collects four tracts: William's Return (young working man comes home after a prolonged absence); James Talbot (a boy discovers that he is under God's eye at all times); The Peaceful Cottage (a British sailor comes home after a prolonged absence); The Effects of a Bad Temper Displayed, in the History of Rebecca Price (a working woman's bad behavior leads to her family's destruction). (eBay)
- Robin Jenkins, The Awakening of George Darroch (Black & White, 1995). Historical novel about the Scottish Disruption of 1843. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Isaac Levinsohn, The Russo-Polish Jew: A Narrative of the Conversion from the Darkness of Judaism, to the Law and Liberty of the Gospel of Christ (Robert Banks, 1878). As it says, a Jewish conversion narrative, this one relatively uncommon. (eBay)
- Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640 (Cambridge, 2011). History of the experience of listening to Protestant sermons after the Reformation (responses, interpretations, modes of reception, etc.). (Amazon)
- Callum Brown, Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707 (Edinburgh, 1997). Overview of denominations, religious conflicts, effects on moral and political debates, etc. (Amazon)
- Caroline B. Brettell, Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois (Southern Illinois, 2015). Analyzes the role of the anti-Catholic and temperance crusader Charles Chiniquy in shaping the religious landscape of Illinois. (Amazon)