This Week's Acquisitions
- Owen Chadwick, The Spirit of the Oxford Movement: Tractarian Essays (Cambridge, 1990). An important collection of Chadwick's essays covering everything from hymns to influences to politics to internal conflicts. (This was one of those "I've read and used this book, but why have I never actually got around to owning my own copy?" purchases.) (Amazon [secondhand])
- S. J. Barnett, The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity (Manchester, 2004). Critiques the historiography of deism in particular, arguing that traditional narratives obscure the centrality of more orthodox religious thought to the Enlightenment. (eBay)
- Michael P. Carroll, American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion (Johns Hopkins, 2007). Analyzes a number of scholarly "myths" about Catholics in the USA, ranging from the relative devoutness of Irish Catholics on arrival to the effects of a Protestant "orientation" on writing religious history. (Amazon [secondhand])
- J. Spencer Fluhman, "A Peculiar People": Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (North Carolina, 2012). Argues that anti-Mormon sentiment helped define the very concept of "religion." (Amazon)
- Lucy Delap, Ben Griffin, and Abigail Wills, The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Essay collection covering all aspects of authority within the household, including definitions of marriage, parenting, relations with servants, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])