Article Note: Malgorzata Rajtar, “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Germany: Reconfiguration of Identity”
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Article Note: Malgorzata Rajtar, “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Germany: Reconfiguration of Identity,” Religion, State and Society 38 no. 4 (December 2010): 401-416. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia The Jehovah’s Witnesses suffered…
Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Berlin: 1932 – 1933: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 12
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Berlin: 1932 – 1933: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 12, ed. Larry L. Rasmussen, trans. Isabel Best, David Higgins, and Douglas W. Stott (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009), 680 pp….
Review of Emmy Barth, An Embassy Besieged: The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Review of Emmy Barth, An Embassy Besieged: The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, Plough Publishing, 2010), 306 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1-60899-879-1. By John S. Conway,…
Article Note: Caitlin Carenen, “The American Christian Palestine Committee, the Holocaust, and Mainstream Protestant Zionism, 1938-1948”
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Article Note: Caitlin Carenen, “The American Christian Palestine Committee, the Holocaust, and Mainstream Protestant Zionism, 1938-1948,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 24 no. 2 (Fall 2010): 273-296. By John S. Conway, University of British…
Article Note: R. Gribble, “Cooperation and Conflict between Church and State: The Russian Famine of 1921-1923”
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010 Article Note: R. Gribble, “Cooperation and Conflict between Church and State: The Russian Famine of 1921-1923,” Journal of Church and State 51 no. 4 (Autumn 2009): 634-662. By John S. Conway, University of…
Review of Dyron Daughrity, The Changing World of Christianity
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2010 Review of Dyron Daughrity, The Changing World of Christianity (New York, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), 290 pp. ISBN 978-14331-0452-7. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Dyron Daughrity teaches World Christianity at…
Book Note: Victims of Nazism: Bonhoeffer and Jägerstätter
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2010 Book Note: Victims of Nazism: Bonhoeffer and Jägerstätter By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Keith Clements, The SPCK Introduction to Bonhoeffer (London: SPCK, 2010), 106 pp. ISBN: 978-0-281-06086-3. Jeffrey C. Pugh,…
Review Article: The Death of Christian Britain Reconsidered
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2010 Review Article: The Death of Christian Britain Reconsidered. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia Callum Brown, The Death of Christian Britain, Understanding secularisation 1800-2000, 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 2009. IBSN 13:…
Review of Raymond Cohen, Saving the Holy Sepulchre
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2010 Review of Raymond Cohen, Saving the Holy Sepulchre. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 0195189663. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia The most venerated church in Christendom is surely the Church of…
Review of Emmy Barth, No Lasting Home. A Year in the Paraguayan Wilderness
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2010 Review of Emmy Barth, No Lasting Home. A Year in the Paraguayan Wilderness. Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House, 2009. ISBN 978-0-87486-945-3 By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia In 1920 a Christian…
Article Note: Heath A. Spencer, “Kulturprotestantismus and ‘Positive Christianity’: A Case for Discontinuity”
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2010 Article Note: Heath A. Spencer, “Kulturprotestantismus and ‘Positive Christianity’: A Case for Discontinuity.” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, Heft 2/2009: 519-549. By John S. Conway, University of British Columbia The latest issue of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte commemorates…
Article Note: Ulrike Ehret, “Catholicism and Judaism in the Catholic Defence against Alfred Rosenberg, 1934-1938: Anti-Jewish Images in an Age of Race Science”
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2010 Article Note: Ulrike Ehret, “Catholicism and Judaism in the Catholic Defence against Alfred Rosenberg, 1934-1938: Anti-Jewish Images in an Age of Race Science.” European History Quarterly, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2010): 35-56….
December 2009 Newsletter
Association of Contemporary Church Historians (Arbeitsgemeinschaft kirchlicher Zeitgeschichtler) John S. Conway, Editor. University of British Columbia December 2009 — Vol. XV, no. 12 Dear Friends, Contents: Book Reviews: a) R. Franzen, Ruth Rouse among students. b) H. Arning, Die Macht des Heils und…
November 2009 Newsletter
Association of Contemporary Church Historians (Arbeitsgemeinschaft kirchlicher Zeitgeschichtler) John S. Conway, Editor. University of British Columbia November 2009 — Vol. XV, no. 11 Dear Friends, In this month of anniversaries, we recall not only the twenty years since the Berlin Wall…
October 2009 Newsletter
Association of Contemporary Church Historians (Arbeitsgemeinschaft kirchlicher Zeitgeschichtler) John S. Conway, Editor. University of British Columbia October 2009 — Vol. XV, no. 10 Dear Friends Sometimes historians simply have to accept that that they cannot find the hard and fast answers…