Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018). 284 Pp. ISBN: 9780674047686. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kißener, eds., Catholics and Third Reich: Controversies and Debates, translated by Christof Morrisey (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018), 315 Pp., ISBN: 9783506787866. By Kevin P….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of Anita Rasi May, Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), X + 162 Pp., ISBN: 9780806159089….
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Review of James Enns. Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). 328 Pp. ISBN: 9780773549135. By Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Article Note: Jouni Tilli, “’Deus Vult!’ The Idea of Crusading in Finnish Clerical War Rhetoric, 1941-1944,” War in History 24, no 3 (2017): 363-385. By Doris L. Bergen, University of…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Article Note: Julio de la Cueva, “Violent Culture Wars: Religion and Revolution in Mexico, Russia and Spain in the Interwar Period,” Journal of Contemporary History 53:3 (2018): 503-523. By Heath…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Letter from the Editors (June 2019) By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to present the newest issue of reviews and notes related to contemporary…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Maria Anna Zumholz and Michael Hirschfeld, eds., Zwischen Seelsorge und Politik: Katholische Bischöfe in der NS-Zeit (Münster: Aschendorf Verlag, 2017), XII + 817 Pp., ISBN: 9783402132289. By Lauren…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Thomas Brodie, German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945 (Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press, 2018), 288 Pp., ISBN: 9780198827023. By Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., Stonehill College In German Catholicism at War,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Michael E. O’Sullivan, Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), 344 Pp., ISBN: 9781487503437. By Kevin P. Spicer,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Ian M. Randall, A Christian Peace Experiment: The Bruderhof Community in Britain, 1933-1942 (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018), 241 pp., ISBN: 9781532639982. By Andrew Chandler, University of Chichester…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Digital Humanities Highlight: American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust in the USHMM’s Experiencing History: Holocaust Sources in Context By Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Experiencing History is…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Book Note: Manfred Gailus, “Religion,” in A Companion to Nazi Germany, eds. Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). ISBN: 9781118936887. Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Article Note: Heath Spencer, “The Thuringian Volkskirchenbund, the Nazi Revolution, and Völkisch Conceptions of Christianity,” Church History 87, no. 4 (December 2018): 1091-1118. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Recently, Heath…