Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Ware, Owen, Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature. 272 pp. 2025:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <733-89>
ISBN 978-0-19-776396-4 hard ¥8,569.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Why was mythology of vital importance for the romantics? What role did mythology play in their philosophical and literary work? And what common sources of influence inspired these writers across Britain and Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century? In this wide-ranging study, Owen Ware argues that the romantics turned to mythology for its potential to transform how we see ourselves, others, and the world. Engaging with authors such as William Blake, Friedrich Schlegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ware shows why they believed that neither perception nor reason alone can sustain a vision of the unity of all things. A new mode of cognition is necessary, they claimed, one that revives the poetic origin of mythology and reveals our own mythmaking powers. Return of the Gods investigates the rise of mythology in the British and German traditions and the romantics' practices of reinterpreting old myths and inventing new ones. Their shared aim was nothing less than to elevate the human imagination to higher stages of self-development in which philosophy and poetry, as well as intellect and imagination, form an integrated whole. Far from calling us to return to the past, the romantics' work on mythology points us to a future where we can live in harmony with the personal, social, and natural worlds we inhabit. Owen Ware combines intellectual history with philosophical analysis and literary criticism to offer a bold reflection on why mythology mattered for the romantics--and why it still matters today.

ホーリネス派の運動歴史事典　第3版
Kostlevy, William / Patzwald, Gari-Anne / Thornton, Wallace, Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement. 3rd ed. (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series) 448 pp. 2024:10 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <733-7>
ISBN 979-88-8180-342-1 hard ¥39,682.- (税込) US$ 185.00 *

Langthaler, Rudolf (Hrsg.), Kant - eine bleibende Herausforderung fuer das Christentum?: Zur Aktualitaet des kantischen "Projekts der Aufklaerung". 500 S. 2024:9 (K. Alber, GW) <733-48>
ISBN 978-3-495-99247-0 paper ¥20,656.- (税込) EUR 89.00

Kants Herausforderung an das Christentum und die Kirchen ist nach wie vor hoechst aktuell: Seine Anfragen und Problematisierungen der ?Gottesbeweise“, der ?Gottessohnschaft Jesu“ und dessen ?stellvertretenden Suehnetods“, des ?Gnaden“-Themas sowie des Verhaeltnisses ?Theonomie versus Autonomie“ sind theologischer- und vor allem kirchlicherseits weithin noch unbeantwortet. Kants 300. Geburtstag waere wohl ein passender Anlass, diesen Defiziten in angemessener Weise zu begegnen. Philosophen, Theologen und auch wichtige kirchliche Amtstraeger waren deshalb eingeladen, zu den genannten Themenfeldern Stellung zu nehmen ? doch leider wurde diese Einladung kirchlicher- und theologischerseits mit zahlreichen Absagen erwidert… Mit Beitraegen von Christian Danz Bernd Doerflinger Georg Geismann Stefan Klingner Burkhard Nonnenmacher Jan Rohls Peter Rohs Oliver Scholz Michael Stickelbroeck Wolfgang Treitler Jan-Heiner Tueck Juergen Werbick

Mondini, Daniela / Jaeggi, Carola / Claussen, P. C. (Hrsg.), Die Kirchen der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter 1050-1300. Bd. 5. (Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archaeologie 24) 640 S. 2025:1 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-171>
ISBN 978-3-515-13441-5 hard ¥34,582.- (税込) EUR 149.00

Moser, Jeffrey / Protass, Jason (eds.), Countless Sands: Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments. 277 pp. 2024:12 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-172>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9573-0 hard ¥15,444.- (税込) US$ 72.00 *

Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this volume are attuned to this challenge, rather than present explicit political arguments, they pursue a subtler effort to historicize the environment as a site and subject of Buddhist practice while providing research grounded in rigorous analysis of complex and fragmentary sources. The volume thereby mitigates against the Orientalist, East-West binaries that have long informed the invocation of Buddhism in Euro-American environmental discourses. As the chapters collectively demonstrate, there was no singular, consistently "Buddhist" understanding of the natural world, but innumerable, varied engagements preserved in discrete texts, images, and artifacts. We title the volume Countless Sands to echo the Buddhist metaphor of "sands of the Ganges" that implies an uncountable number. Through specific case studies, the authors consider such questions as: How did premodern Buddhists understand what we today call "the environment"? How did they think about their earth? How, when, and where did the various processes of the earth actually impinge on the practices of historical Buddhists? What kinds of "environmental imaginations" informed specific Buddhist practices? In so doing, the authors explore the connections between the ways in which historical Buddhist communities interacted with their environments and how they understood those environments. In the broader field of Buddhist studies, Countless Sands contributes to ongoing efforts to expand the locus of inquiry from textually based investigations of Buddhist doctrine to a broader examination of the complex and varied place of Buddhism in the lives of historical communities. The book furthers this broader process by casting it in environmental terms and will engage readers looking for models of thought-provoking historical analysis on environmental themes.

Naiweld, Ron, A Historical-Materialist Reading of Genesis 1-4: Undoing Satan between Colonial Brazil and Biblical Israel. 216 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <733-173>
ISBN 978-1-032-88689-3 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book offers a historical-materialist reading of the opening chapters of the book of Genesis in an attempt to revive their potential to engage people in truthful discussions about power and pleasure.For the past two millennia, biblical stories have been told and discussed in countless settings; whether one lives in Europe or in a country that was colonized by Europeans, the biblical symbolic universe remains present. This book offers a method to explore the social and political meanings of its most theological content by visiting two historical settings in which biblical modes of expression intersected with the demands of an economic-political process: Jerusalem and its province during the Persian period (5th-4th centuries bce) and Brazil of the early colonial period (16th century ce). Though distant in time and space, both were moments of comparable transformation: individuals with financial resources and military power arrived from the East to seize control over lands and means of production, subjugating the population to a distant king. By turning to these two historical settings, Ron Naiweld examines how the narratives of Genesis resonated in these environments, how they were used to legitimize imperial power structures, and how they opened these structures to scrutiny. The volume is part of a larger trend of reading the Bible with a historical-materialist approach that allows us to grasp the power of its symbolic universe to inspire both utopia and barbarism, especially in colonial contexts.This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in the biblical symbolic universe and Jewish and Christian history. It is also of interest to those working on the history of Brazil, comparative literature, and the intersection of religion, economy, and politics.

Naschert, Guido, Friedrich Brecklings 'Wahrheitszeugen': Ein Handbuch zum religioesen Nonkonformismus um 1700. (Gothaer Forschungen zur Fruehen Neuzeit 23) 320 S. 2024:6 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-174>
ISBN 978-3-515-13215-2 hard ¥14,854.- (税込) EUR 64.00

Dieses Handbuch zu den ,Wahrheitszeugen‘ des mystischen Spiritualisten und Lutheraners Friedrich Breckling (1629?1711) macht erstmals dessen ,unsichtbare Kirche‘ religioeser Abweichler und Aussenseiter namentlich greifbar. Das Buch ist als Hilfsmittel zum Verstandnis der europaweiten Netzwerke des religioesen Nonkonformismus gedacht. Die darin edierten und heute in der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha verwahrten Nachlassstucke legte Breckling in den 1690er Jahren im Den Haager Exil an: Es handelt sich um einen topographischen Katalog von uber 1.078 ,Wahrheitszeugen‘. Er wird durch ein Personenlexikon erschlossen. Ausserdem wird erstmals Brecklings literarhistorische Bibliographie ,Bibliotheca Bibliothekarum‘ zuganglich gemacht. Sie umfasst ca. 2.000 Eintrage und zeugt von der Buchgelehrsamkeit eines Dissidenten, der sich selbst als ,Bibliothekar Gottes‘ verstand. Eine einfuhrende Analyse, Kartenmaterial sowie ein Nachlassverzeichnis runden den am Forschungszentrum Gotha entstandenen Band ab.

Neel, Douglas E., The Food and Feasts of the Apostle Paul: Inside the Early Church-with Menus and Recipes. 344 pp. 2024:11 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <733-175>
ISBN 978-1-5381-0477-4 hard ¥7,293.- (税込) US$ 34.00 *

The Food and Feasts of the Apostle Paul takes readers inside the world of the early Christian church through a new lens-what people ate (and didn't eat). The early church encompassed diverse communities and people, and understanding its food helps us understand both the worship and culture of these people, as well as their sources of conflict. Each chapter introduces readers to a different community or church Paul visited or started, explores one or two key foods, and offers recipes that reflect each community. Recipes range from simple to complex, from snack to feast. The Food and Feasts of the Apostle Paul aims to help readers more fully experience the diverse cultures of the early Christian church to better understand the teachings of Jesus, Paul, and early Christian leaders.

Nemec, John, Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures. 320 pp. 2025:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <733-176>
ISBN 978-0-19-779199-8 hard ¥28,314.- (税込) US$ 132.00

O'Dwyer, Shaun (ed.), Confucianism at War: 1931-1945. 314 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-177>
ISBN 978-1-032-61931-6 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This is the first book-length study of wartime Confucianism in any language, providing new insights into key developments in Confucian thought and ideology in East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s.In standard scholarship on the ideologies driving nation-building and imperialism during the era of Japanese expansionism that began in 1931, Confucianism is rarely referenced and relegated to the background. This volume brings together the work of scholars who argue for a revision of this standard view. It includes studies of Japanese, Chinese, colonial Manchurian, and Korean intellectuals and reformers who contributed to expansionist, collaborationist, or nationalist ideology-building during the war. Contrary to the assumption that Confucianism was an anachronism rendered irrelevant by the Westernizing political reforms and revolutions of the early twentieth century, the chapters in this book show that Confucianism remained a potent and also contested cultural resource for promoting national cohesion, war mobilization and expansionism in East Asia between the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and the end of World War II in 1945. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Asian studies, nationalism studies, postcolonial studies, religious studies, and philosophy. In particular, it is essential reading for those interested in nationalism and modern Confucian thought in East Asia.

Palma, Paul J., Beyond the Evangelical Gender Roles Gridlock: Reimagining Paul's Views on Women, Marriage, and Ministry. 292 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-178>
ISBN 978-1-6669-4007-7 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

古代末期北アフリカにおける聖人の形成
Panzram, Sabine / Klinck, Nathalie (eds.), The Making of Saints in Late Antique North Africa. (Beitraege zur Hagiographie 28) 347 S. 2024:7 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-179>
ISBN 978-3-515-13727-0 paper ¥14,390.- (税込) EUR 62.00

The "Making of Saints" is a phenomenon of central significance to Christianity since a vision-inspired Ambrosius discovered the remains of the martyrs Gervasius and Protasius in 386 AD in Milan. In North Africa it seems to have taken on an extremely interesting form that makes Brent D. Shaw speaking of the blood of the martyrs as "the vital force, the kinetic energy powering Christian life in Africa". This volume contributes to the productively expanding research field of North African Christianity by providing narrative analyses on the one hand and presenting case studies from an archaeological perspective on the other, which allow a comparative perspective of the phenomenon in order to systematically combine them: narrative alone did not "make" a martyr, architectural staging too was needed ? the story made the martyr and the staging made the saint. The multidisciplinary approach brings together the most recent results concerning excavations and epigraphy, but also an innovative conceptual understanding of text, space, and ? last but not least ? religion, in order to examine the social function that the veneration of martyrs had in a longue duree perspective.

Papasidero, Marco / Accardi, Dean / Jamroziak, E. (eds.), The Monastic Dimension of Identity Politics: Global Case Studies from the Premodern Period. (Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West) 152 pp. 2024:10 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <733-180>
ISBN 978-1-64189-394-7 hard ¥27,878.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

Phillips, Donald D., Developing a New Christology for a Postmodern Culture: Knowing Christ Today. 230 pp. 2024:11 (Fortress Academic, US) <733-181>
ISBN 978-1-9787-1608-7 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

In an increasingly secular, contemporary (postmodern) culture, many people have no understanding of Christianity or the importance and relevance of Jesus Christ. As a result, the Church's traditional liturgical texts, as well as the church-oriented language often used by Christians to explain the Gospel, are not helpful or accessible to those outside the Church. To respond to this challenge, the author uses a semiotic method, based on the work of Robert Schreiter, to engage and describe the nature of contemporary postmodern culture. Using a narrative approach to the Gospels based on the work of the 20th century historical theologian, Hans Frei, the author derives a more modest, open-ended Christology which will 'converse' with its cultural context and continue to be interpreted within contemporary Christian communities. Using social values analysis from a particular contemporary culture, the author then forms biblical statements about the person of Jesus Christ that are congruent with those values, and uses them to construct a new Eucharistic Prayer. The result is a liturgical prayer that is accessible and enables members of that local culture to be embraced by, and to embrace, the identity of Jesus Christ.

Pitkaenen, Olli (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Esotericism: From the 19th Century to the Present. (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) 370 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <733-182>
ISBN 978-1-032-59976-2 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume offers the first systematic philosophical study of esotericism and late modern philosophy. It addresses fundamental philosophical questions related to esotericism and reveals that esoteric ideas have had decisive impact on countless important philosophers, even if this fact has been neglected in contemporary philosophy.The first part of the book is dedicated to substantial and methodological questions. What is philosophy, what is esotericism, and how should we think about their relationship? The second section is more historically oriented, and it is divided in two parts. Part I is concerned with German romanticism and idealism, with a specific focus on the influence of esotericism on Hegel and Schelling, as well as the connection between romanticism and Kabbalah in the work of Gershom Scholem. Part II explores esotericism in phenomenology, pragmatism, and post-idealism, specifically in the work of William James, Martin Heidegger, Henri Bergson, and Roy Bhaskar.Philosophical Perspectives on Esotericism will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, and religious studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.Funded by: Kone Foundation

Power, Maria / Bush, Jonathan (eds.), Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth Century Britain. (Catholic Record Society: Monograph Series) 222 pp. 2025:3 (Catholic Record Society, UK) <733-183>
ISBN 978-0-902832-36-7 hard ¥14,080.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00 *

This volume brings to light the Catholic laity's rich history of collective action to address major social issues in twentieth-century Britain, from women's suffrage to the AIDS crisis. Catholic teaching in the twentieth century placed renewed emphasis on the role of lay people in enacting Christian values and beliefs in the circumstances of their ordinary lives. In Britain, this call for Catholic action in the social sphere was answered by many organisations and associations that in very different ways channeled and transformed the engagement of Catholic believers with the Church and with wider society. This volume casts fresh light on the neglected contributions of Britain's Catholic minority to widely familiar movements and issues across the twentieth century, from women's suffrage at its beginning to the peace movement and AIDS response at its end. While much research has been done on lay Catholic associations in North America and Continental Europe, very little has previously been known about such societies in the British context. Chapters in this ground-breaking collection discuss such organisations as the Catholic Women's League, St Joan's Social and Political Alliance, the Guild of Catholic Teachers, the Catholic Evidence Guild, the Young Christian Workers, the Newman Association, the Catenians, the Catholic Worker movement, the charismatic prayer groups that proliferated in the 1970s, and Catholic AIDS Link. These groups operating under lay leadership variously worked to support working and professional women, secure equal voting rights, advance the professionalisation of teachers, combat prejudice against the reasonableness of Catholic doctrines and those holding them, give young working people the skills and confidence to engage actively with their conditions, provide aid to exiles from totalitarian regimes, create forums for respectable conviviality and collective charitable endeavour for middle-class men, promote radical social justice and peace activism, experiment with new forms of worship and spirituality, and respond to the crisis of the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s. The sheer variety of concerns addressed by these associations - a small selection from the many more that have existed and that continue to operate - indicate something of the breadth of the Catholic laity's engagement with the condition of twentieth-century Britain and the depth of its response to the call for Catholic social action.

9～11世紀のレオンにおける地方の教会、修道院、司教
Perez, Mariel, Local Churches, Monasteries, and Bishops in Leon Between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries. (Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia) 192 pp. 2024:10 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-184>
ISBN 978-90-485-5947-3 hard ¥30,131.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

This volume contributes to a deeper understanding of the different forms of ecclesiastical articulation in early medieval Spain. While traditional studies have focused on higher instances of ecclesiastical power, this work offers a bottom-up perspective centred on the local churches and the bonds they established with monasteries and bishops. This approach engages in a reflection on the nature of the diocese in the Early Middle Ages, as well as furthering our knowledge of early medieval local societies and their social dynamics.

Radle, Gabriel, Marriage in Byzantium: Christian Liturgical Rites from Betrothal to Consummation. 420 pp. 2024:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <733-185>
ISBN 978-1-009-46956-2 hard ¥29,568.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00 *

Across cultures, weddings have historically represented some of the most important and extravagant celebrations. This is the first comprehensive study of marriage rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean world of Byzantine Christianity. Using a large corpus of unedited liturgical manuscripts as well as other evidence from jewelry and law to visual representations and theological treatises, Gabriel Radle reconstructs the ceremonies used by the Byzantines to formalize the marriage process, from betrothal to rites of consummation. He showcases the meanings behind rituals of kinship formation and sexual relations and explores how the practice of Byzantine Christianity crossed fluid borders between the church and the domestic sphere. The book situates the development of Byzantine Christian marriage traditions alongside those of other religious communities and, in placing liturgical manuscripts at the heart of this study, paves new methodological paths for the use of ritual sources in the writing of Byzantine history.

Rapisarda, Daniela Lucia, Theology on the Border: The Mediterranean, Minority Identity, and Migration. (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies) 208 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-186>
ISBN 978-1-032-85429-8 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Focusing on the Mediterranean, this book offers a theological hermeneutics from the perspective of the margin/border and a theological hermeneutics of the border. At the core is a case study of the Italian Protestant minority and its engagement with issues of migration. While much of current migration theology is built around the principle of sacralization of the migrant person or 'vertical' association between divinity (God or Jesus) and people on the move, this work offers a 'horizontal' perspective on humanization or recognition of the value of every human being, based on the principle of a shared humanity created in God's image, and a sense of identification, first by people at the margins. This approach seeks to avoid essentializing migrantness and victimhood. Elaborations on the relation between identity and migration are often sustained by exclusionary logics that lead to repressive policies. The book proposes a contextual theological reflection on minority identity that is at its core inclusive. It offers a contribution to theology beyond confessional borders and is open to dialogue with other disciplines, particularly critical border studies.

イングランドにおける女性の平信徒と十字軍　1150～1300年
Reynolds, Gordon M., Laywomen and the Crusade in England, 1150-1300. (Crusading in Context) 242 pp. 2024:11 (Boydell, UK) <733-187>
ISBN 978-1-83765-224-2 hard ¥19,712.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *

Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning from the Holy Land to the Baltic, with huge armies of religious zealots led by knights wearing crosses. However, the reality is far more nuanced. The vast majority of those living in western Europe did not go on crusade at all. But that does not mean that crusading was not on their minds, or that they could not influence the movement. They urged others to take up the cross, provided financial support, and prayed for the campaigns in the Holy Land; for them, this was crusade. This book investigates how English laywomen were encouraged to support crusades and identify with holy war during the Middle Ages, challenging preconceptions of what crusade "meant", and bringing out the diverse ways of their participation. It draws on detailed analysis of cartularies, judicial records, chronicles and lyrical sources; it also examines the rich material culture of commemoration that celebrated the endeavour, alongside the papal propaganda which idealised women's sponsorship of crusade. This study therefore sheds new light not only on the role of women in crusade, but on their influence and piety more generally.

教皇制の歴史　第1巻
Rollo-Koster, Joelle / Ventresca, R. A. et al. (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Volume 1.: The Two Swords. 828 pp. 2025:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <733-188>
ISBN 978-1-108-48523-4 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. Aptly titled 'The Two Swords,' it explores the papacy's navigation, negotiation, and re-negotiation, initially of its place and its role amid changing socio-political ideas and practices. Surviving and thriving in such environment naturally had an impact on the power dynamics between the papacy and the secular realm, as well internal dissents and with non-Catholics. The volume explores how changing ideas, beliefs, and practices in the broader world engaged the papacy and lead it to define its own conceptualizations of power. This dynamic has enabled the papacy to shift and be reshaped according to circumstances often well beyond its control or influence.

Dal Bo, Federico, Print, Power, and Cultural Hegemony: A Material History of Early Hebrew Prints. 400 pp. 2024:8 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-19>
ISBN 978-3-11-139268-4 hard ¥25,518.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

Federico Dal Bo examines the design of early Hebrew books from the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, focusing not only on the words in these early books but also on how they were arranged on the page. He follows in the tradition of scholars such as Christopher de Hamel, Marvin J. Heller, and David Stern, who have explored the importance of these Hebrew books in influencing Jewish learning and attracting the interest of Christians. The author discusses important prints, such as the first Talmud and rabbinical bibles, which marked a shift from being for Jewish readers only to being for both Jews and Christians. The collaboration between Jewish editors and Christian printers changed the way these books looked and the audience for whom they were intended. At first, these early prints copied the style of handwritten Hebrew manuscripts. The simple layout could be difficult to read, especially for long books like the Bible or Talmud. But over time, influenced by the humanism of the Italian Renaissance, the layout became more complex. The book also looks at how the layout changed from full-page commentaries to a more complicated design in which the main text and commentaries shared the same page. This shift challenged the idea of who was the primary author and emphasized the role of editors. The layout, with the main text in the center and the commentaries on the sides, created a kind of unwritten rule for how to read religious texts. Dal Bo's study also includes new information about a 1553 trial in which the Talmud was burned. Overall, it explores how the layout of these early Hebrew books shaped cultural power and influenced how people read.

教皇制の歴史　第2巻
Rollo-Koster, Joelle / Ventresca, Robert A. et al. (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Volume 2: The Governance of the Church. 800 pp. 2025:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <733-190>
ISBN 978-1-108-49382-6 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution's various governing instruments. Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue duree, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. The chapters bring nuance to older historiographical models of papal supremacy, focusing on how apostolic primacy was contested and re-negotiated, and how the contours of power relationships shifted between center and periphery. The volume draws attention to questions about papal supremacy across time, place, and transnational lines; the function of law in the exercise of papal authority; the governance of the church in the form of the Curia, synods, and regional and ecumenical councils; the governance of the Papal States; the management of finances and church-state relations; and the relationship between papal temporal and spiritual authority.

教皇制の歴史　第3巻
Rollo-Koster, Joelle / Ventresca, Robert A. et al. (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Volume 3.: Civil Society. 802 pp. 2025:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <733-191>
ISBN 978-1-108-49377-2 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Historically, the papacy has had - and continues to have - significant and sustained influence on society and culture. In the contemporary world, this influence is felt far afield from the traditional geographic and cultural center of papal authority in western Europe, notably in the Global South. Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that successive popes and various vectors of papal authority have had on a broad range of social and cultural developments in European and global societies. The range of topics covered here reflects the vast and expanding scope of papal influence on everything from architecture to the construction and contestation of gender norms to questions of papal fashion. That influence has waxed and waned over time as successive popes have had access to greater resources and have had stronger imperatives to use their powers of patronage and regulation to intervene in society at large.

Roos, Merethe / Westberg, Johannes / Edgren, Henrik (eds.), Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?: Christianity and Education in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. (Studies in the History of Education and Culture 5) 290 pp. 2024:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-192>
ISBN 978-3-11-108243-1 hard ¥23,197.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

The twentieth-century process of secularization does not mean that institutional church and Christian ideas were irrelevant for twentieth-century societal projects ? such as the introduction of democracy, the improvement of school and education, the framing of national identities ? or in the establishment of welfare-states. On the contrary, this publication is built on the presupposition that secularization runs parallell with the sacralization of the state. It can be argued that Christianity has been decisive for how the modern European society evolved in the twentieth century, e.g. concerning how Christian history and Christian values were a part of the new national and social imaginary where re-enchantment and re-sacralization of the state were central elements. In this publication, the aim is to highlight the role of Christianity in the twentieth- and twentyfirst-century welfare-state modernization process with the focus on schooling and education. A central perspective is the impact of cultural Protestantism during the twentieth century. The publication is comparative and will investigate education in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands via chapters on curriculums, textbooks, politicians, and political debates.

Saladin, Irina, Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789. Tr. by P. Selwyn. (Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World) 342 pp. 2024:9 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-193>
ISBN 978-94-6372-565-1 hard ¥37,452.- (税込) GB￡ 133.00 *

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close contact with local people. Their daily experiences in the mission, their high level of education, and their connection with the institutional structures of the Jesuit order made them key figures in the production of knowledge about the Amazon. Irina Saladin investigates the complex relationships between mission and knowledge in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit maps. She analyzes how Jesuit missionary practices shaped the cartographic representation of the Amazon in the early modern era.

Salguero, C. Pierce / Cheung, Kin / Deane, Susannah et al., Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World. 277 pp. 2024:9 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-194>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9769-7 hard ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00

This rich collection focuses on the nexus between Buddhism and healing in the modern and contemporary world, highlighting the many ways Buddhists have adapted in response to and in dialogue with modern science, biomedicine, and other facets of modernity from the nineteenth century to today. Buddhist healing activities are much more diverse than the narrow range of mindfulness techniques that have dominated scholarly and popular focus. From the community-based healing practices of Asian American Buddhists and transnational Tantric sex therapy retreats to concerns about balancing being contemporary with being authentically Buddhist, contributors explore how Buddhists have rethought the mind-body relationship against the backdrop of the modernization and globalization of Buddhism. They examine Buddhists navigating the differences and commonalities that exist in their practice and modern systems of mental and physical healthcare, paying attention to how they have negotiated shifting configurations of legitimacy, authority, and authenticity. Through historical and ethnographic case studies, the work details these ruptures and reconciliations in Japan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Korea, and the U.S., in addition to mapping the transnational pathways of exchange as knowledge about Buddhism and medicine has traveled between Asia and the West.Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World encompasses a wide range of Buddhist ideas about health and health-seeking practices that remain a vital part of the everyday practice of modern Buddhism across the globe.

Schade, Leah D., Preaching and Social Issues: Tools and Tactics for Empowering Your Prophetic Voice. 256 pp. 2024:11 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <733-195>
ISBN 978-1-5381-8760-9 hard ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-8761-6 paper ¥5,362.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

How can preachers address social issues in their sermons given the divisiveness and polarization in society and churches? Preaching Social Issues equips preachers to craft sermons that help congregations talk about topics of public concern based on a strong biblical foundation, solid theological claims, and prudent sermonic strategies. Informed by years of research and trainings with clergy and congregations, Rev. Dr. Leah Schade provides practical and pastoral guidance for preachers to find their prophetic voice for their own context with integrity and wisdom. Preaching Social Issues also offers an assessment tool for gauging readers risk and capacity for preaching about social issues. Schade suggests three approaches to a sermon addressing a social issue: Gentle Prophet, Invitational Prophet, and Robust Prophet, based on the preacher's vulnerability, characteristics of the congregation, and the quality of relationships between and among the congregation and preacher. The book includes strategies, tactics, and tips to support and equip preachers who choose to address social issues in their sermon, along with exercises and sermons and case studies that illustrate different approaches for preaching about contemporary topics.

Schmitt, Oliver Jens, Machtkirche zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie: Die Rumaenische orthodoxe Kirche 1918-2023. (Suedosteuropaeische Arbeiten 170) 349 pp. 2024:1 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-196>
ISBN 978-3-11-133951-1 hard ¥11,592.- (税込) EUR 49.95 *

1918 entstand parallel zur Bildung eines grossen rumaenischen Staates die Rumaenische orthodoxe Kirche durch den Zusammenschluss der Regionalkirchen des rumaenischen Altreichs, Siebenbuergens, der Bukowina und Bessarabiens. Nach der russischen Orthodoxie lange Zeit die zweitgroesste orthodoxe Kirche der Welt, stand sie in engstem Verhaeltnis zu allen politischen Systemen des modernen Rumaeniens. Im Jahre 2023 ist sie eine bestimmende politische und wirtschaftliche Macht im Lande, die eine Aufarbeitung ihrer schwierigen Vergangenheit verweigert. Die Kirche hat mit allen Diktaturen von rechts und links kooperiert und gegenueber dem demokratischen Rechtsstaat bis heute kein klar definiertes Verhaeltnis gefunden. Der uebersteigerte nationalistische Orthodoxismus hingegen, der einen roten Faden in der Zeitgeschichte Rumaeniens darstellt, wird bis in die Gegenwart von kirchlichen Kreisen gefoerdert. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschreibt das Buch das Verhaeltnis von orthodoxer Kirche, Staat und Gesellschaft in Rumaenien.

Seyed-Gohrab, Asghar (ed.), Sufi Non-Conformism: Antinomian Trends in the Persianate Cultural Traditions. (Iranian Studies Series) 260 pp 2024:9 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <733-197>
ISBN 978-90-8728-454-1 hard ¥33,228.- (税込) GB￡ 118.00 *

Shaukat, Muhammad Awais, Being Muslim in a Morally Relative World: The Dilemma of Contemporary Polarized Pakistani Society. (Lexington Studies in Islamic Thought) 146 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-198>
ISBN 978-1-6669-6626-8 hard ¥21,450.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Being Muslim in a Morally Relative World: The Dilemma of Contemporary Polarized Pakistani Society examines the challenges faced by Islamic societies in the 21st century, particularly in Pakistan, as they navigate the influences of globalization and Western intellectual movements. Muhammad Awais Shaukat offers a detailed analysis comparing the Islamic value system with the concept of moral relativism, exploring how these contrasting ethical frameworks shape individual and societal behaviors, values, and beliefs. The book investigates the conflict between traditional Islamic morality, rooted in the Qur'an and Sunnah, which upholds absolute and objective values, and the relativistic, subjective morality emerging from post-modernism. By leveraging his multidisciplinary expertise, the author illustrates how these conflicting values have intensified polarization within Muslim societies, amplified by media and intellectual discourse. The book contributes not only to academic discourse but also offers practical insights for policymakers, educators, and community leaders, offering a framework for developing pathways toward social harmony and cohesion.

Shmushko, Kai, Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics. 360 pp 2024:11 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <733-199>
ISBN 978-90-8728-456-5 hard ¥30,131.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

Loon, Zanna, The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru. (Languages and Culture in History) 462 pp. 2024:11 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-20>
ISBN 978-94-6372-417-3 hard ¥38,579.- (税込) GB￡ 137.00 *

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume considers these missionary books as physical and social objects and illuminates how a variety of factors determines their physical appearance, structure, and form, which in turn shape and guide the interpretation of their contents: people involved in its making; geographical and social circumstances and conditions of production; technologies, materials, and tools; genre and function(s) of the books; and intended readership, modes of distribution, and readerly responses.

Smith, Graeme / Todd, Andrew (eds.), Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World. (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology) 292 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-200>
ISBN 978-1-032-46650-7 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Future Faith: Public and Practical Theologies for the Contemporary World explores what is needed for theology to survive and thrive in the next generation. As well as declining student numbers and pressures on university theology departments, churches are increasingly questioning the value of theological study.The volume addresses the need for innovative responses to this crisis, which re-evaluate the place of theological study in the ecclesial, academic, social and cultural landscape. Focusing on the UK, it brings together leading scholars in public and practical theology from the academy and the churches. Contributors engage in particular with the insights and work of Professor Stephen Pattison. It is argued that the future of contemporary theology lies in its ability to contribute to modern life in practical and public ways. If theology is to have a future, it must be relevant in the workplace, in public institutions and in public life. The chapters consider the methodological innovations required for theology to have such a future and investigate specific examples of the practical expressions of a future theology in some important contemporary settings. Public theology, professional life and chaplaincy are the three key areas in which the outward-facing nature of theological reflection is explored and developed.Future Faith will be of particular interest to scholars and students working in these spheres.

日本における宗教とスポーツ
Smith, Zachary T. / Frost, D. J. / Covell, S. G. et al., Religion and Sport in Japan. 277 pp. 2024:9 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-201>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9766-6 hard ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *

The sports world's attention was focused on Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The years-long buildup to and aftermath of the games occurred in the midst of the global pandemic, which delayed the event until 2021. Given all of this, there is perhaps no better time to delve into an often overlooked but critical facet of sport in Japan-namely religion.Religion has long been a part of the Japanese sport tradition-from Shugendo practitioners offering sumo bouts to the gods to soccer players of all ages praying for success at Shinto shrines; from the use of meditation and ritual in martial arts to gain focus or superhuman abilities to religious organizations sponsoring sporting events and teams and school sports clubs. Religion and Sport in Japan brings together historians and sport and religious studies specialists from Japan, the US, and Europe to address sport's ties to corporate and national identity, politics, environmentalism, ritual, and sacred space. Major themes discussed include the spiritual geographies of sport, sport as invented tradition, technologies of self, material culture, and civil religion. The chapters are written so that sport historians with no background in the study of Japan or religious studies scholars who have never before examined the world of sport will find the material accessible. To provide further grounding for non-field specialists, the volume begins with two background chapters that introduce sport studies in Japan and the study of religion and sport.

アメリカにおける白人キリスト教ナショナリズム
Spaulding Flowers, Angelyn, White Christian Nationalism in the United States: A Rising Tide Sinks All Boats. 200 pp. 2024:12 (Lexington Books, US) <733-202>
ISBN 978-1-6669-5713-6 hard ¥22,522.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Suarsana, Yan, Globales Christentum. (Studienkurs Religion) 220 S. 2025:3 (Nomos, GW) <733-203>
ISBN 978-3-8487-7141-7 paper ¥5,570.- (税込) EUR 24.00 *

Was sind die wichtigsten Unterschiede zwischen Protestantismus und Katholischer Kirche? Hat der historische Jesus das Christentum gegruendet? Welche Kirche ist die aelteste der Welt? Ausgehend von diesen und aehnlichen Fragen praesentiert das Lehrbuch in kompakter Form Grundwissen zu Geschichte und Gegenwart saemtlicher Stroemungen des globalen Christentums, die fuer das Verstaendnis der heutigen konfessionellen Landschaft relevant sind. Zielgruppe sind insbesondere Studierende der Religions-, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften sowie alle Interessierten, die sich Basiswissen zum Christentum aneignen wollen.

Suehr, Chris, Lost Lutherans: Perspectives on American Religious Decline. 186 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-204>
ISBN 978-1-6669-4748-9 hard ¥22,522.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Lost Lutherans: Perspectives on American Religious Decline offers a straightforward look at change in American religion. Chris Suehr presents the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) as an example of religious change in a way that is welcoming to interested readers and fulfilling to social scientists. By amplifying real voices, this book presents the social science, but also explores the stories behind its statistics-the people who have left, their reasons, their beliefs, and their quests. Lost Lutherans is a useful resource on specific areas of American religion-from the history of the Mainline to the voices of modern people who have left it. This book examines the gradual changes in society, culture, and institutions that have led to this religious transformation.

立花幸司編　キリスト教及び儒教の伝統と教育への日本の視点
Tachibana, Koji (ed.), Alternative Virtues: Japanese Perspectives on Christian and Confucian Traditions and Education. (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series 120) 224 pp. 2025 (Routledge, UK) <733-205>
ISBN 978-1-032-50142-0 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues.The study of virtue has long been dominated by Western (i.e., Christian) and far-Eastern (i.e., Confucian) points of view. However, Japanese thinkers and scholars have struggled with these traditions. The rise of cultural intermingling with these traditions has created a unique code of values in Japan, which have grown from their own historical and cultural sources other than the Christian and Confucian traditions. Viewed through the filter of Japanese history and culture as well as focusing on different contexts in Japan, the book investigates both moral and epistemic virtues. Discussing the theoretical and practical implications that such alternative virtues may have on our lives, this book will contribute to reforming the current research trends in virtue theory and encouraging the wider public to consider the notion of virtue from a fresh perspective.Due to the content and scope of the book, it will appeal to a variety of readers- both locally and internationally-interested not only in Japanese historical, cultural, and philosophical investigations of virtues but also in learning more about alternative perspectives on virtues. This readership includes scholars and university students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) in the fields of philosophy, history, cultural studies, moral psychology, and education.

Thurston, Naomi, Moltmann in China: Reception and Dialogue. 240 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-207>
ISBN 978-1-032-91596-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The book explores the reception of the German theologian Juergen Moltmann's theology within the general framework of a budding Chinese academic theology.The author introduces the reception of Moltmann's theology in Chinese contexts as a dialogic process of intercultural learning and theological meaning-making, encompassing readings of western intellectual history, Marxist dialogue, political philosophy, and comparative studies. By thus presenting Moltmann studies in China as an interactive, interdisciplinary conversation between contemporary Chinese intellectuals and Western Christianity, the present "theological reception history" argues for the full inclusion and deeper appreciation of Chinese scholarly voices and perspectives in the transmission, reconstruction, and reimagining of contemporary Western theology in Chinese contexts. Featuring a representative array of scholarship on Moltmann in the Chinese academy over the past four decades, the book highlights the unique critical potential of these cross-cultural, interdisciplinary exchanges.The book will appeal to academics, postgraduate students, and theologians interested in world Christianity, contextual theology, Moltmann's theology, and intercultural dialogue.

Tipton, Steven M., In and Out of Church: The Moral Arc of Spiritual Change in America. 320 pp. 2024:11 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <733-208>
ISBN 978-1-5381-9704-2 hard ¥18,232.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-9705-9 paper ¥6,220.- (税込) US$ 29.00 *

Why are so many Americans leaving church? Half no longer belong to a congregation. A quarter now say they are unchurched, up from one in six a decade ago and one in twelve a generation ago, led by more than a third of young adults. Where have they gone, and what are they doing instead? What moves them? What should we make of it? What can we learn as well from those who have stayed or returned, and from congregations that have sparked their continuing commitment or renewed participation?After decades of drift and several long years of grievous pandemic that shut church doors and crowded the internet, the time has come to weigh these questions more closely and answer them more carefully. We need to open a keener moral inquiry into the arc of spiritual change in America. We need to probe a thicker cultural account of intergenerational religious influence and inspiration that we practice today in forms of ritual action, sacred expression, and moral community that reach far beyond the pews.In and Out of Church tackles these tasks. It's a book voiced by spiritually attuned, morally articulate young adults adrift from the churches and temples of their childhood yet immersed in currents of spiritual practice and imagination now shifting the shape and course of American religion. In heartfelt dialogue with their baby-boom parents these Millennials ponder how and why they got here in terms that open up and deepen the "spiritual but not religious" story sketched by surveys of "religious nones." This book brings these numbers to life and makes moral sense of this story of individuals leaving church by setting it within the larger cultural drama of modern multiplex society and quicksilver selfhood in search of authentic fulfillment in caring community. It takes the reader inside a mushrooming megachurch in Silicon Valley and three thriving mainline congregations in Atlanta to see how they reach out to unchurched young adults and hold onto their own as they come of age by "putting belonging before believing and behaving." They lift up spiritual experience above creed and code, and they challenge conventions of "organized religion" in ways that many "spiritual and religious" churchgoers have now come to embrace.

Toribio, Pablo, Benedykt Wiszowaty's Medulla historiae ecclesiasticae: Critical Edition of a Late Socinian Account of Church History. (Sozinianismus und Heterodoxie) 293 S. 2024:6 (F. Steiner, GW) <733-209>
ISBN 978-3-515-13722-5 hard ¥14,390.- (税込) EUR 62.00

An elusive figure of late Socinianism, Benedykt Wiszowaty (ca. 1660?after 1704) was the great grandson of Fausto Sozzini. He was educated in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for several publications that ensured the Western European reception of Socinianism after its proscription from Poland, including Christoph Sand’s (1644?1680) Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum (1684). With his Medulla historiae ecclesiasticae (ca. 1685), Wiszowaty accomplished "probably the last serious work to come from the Polish Socinians, one which winds up their contribution for good and is in a sense their parting shot" (Lech Szczucki). Rooted in sixteenth-century Protestant apologetic traditions and much indebted to contemporary schorlarship from different confessions, the Medulla aims to identify traces of Socinian Christology in every period of Christian history. Pablo Toribio publishes this Latin treatise for the first time, providing a critical edition based on all known manuscripts (held today in Budapest, Cluj-Napoca and Hamburg). The edition is introduced by a philological discussion of the text and an account of Wiszowaty’s life and intellectual profile.

Trakulhun, Sven, Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand. 277 pp. 2024:7 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-210>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9574-7 hard ¥15,015.- (税込) US$ 70.00

Confronting Christianity explores the history of religious encounters between Christian missionaries and Thai Buddhists during the nineteenth century, a period of Western imperialism in Southeast Asia that fundamentally transformed Siamese society and religious institutions. From about 1830 onwards, discussions on religion became a central arena of conflict between rival regimes of knowledge in Thailand, confronting traditional Buddhist views on nature and man's existence with the ideals and practices of science and rationalism coming from the West. Protestant missionaries, mostly from the United States, became important brokers of knowledge, as one of their strengths was the ability to offer religion in tandem with modern science and technology. Historian Sven Trakulhun explains why the intrusion of evangelical Christianity strengthened the position of Theravada Buddhism rather than undermining people's belief in traditional forms of worship. Based on a wide range of Thai and Western primary sources, the volume describes how Christian missionaries unwittingly contributed to the making of what scholars of Buddhism have later rendered as "Buddhist modernism." In response to Christian assaults on the traditional cosmology, Buddhist reformers fashioned an orthodox version of Buddhism that acknowledged the findings of modern science and at the same time deemed even more rational than Christianity. This new orthodoxy became a major source of moral authority for Thai kings and an important ideology for pushing their claims for religious leadership in the Theravada Buddhist world. Trakulhun offers a thorough study of the encounter between Christianity and Buddhism and places the history of Siamese Theravada Buddhism within the broad context of global intellectual history.

Tyssens, Jeffrey / De Nutte, Niels / Schroeder, S. (eds.), The Non-Religious and the State: Seculars crafting their lives in different frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Current Day. (New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought) 400 S. 2024:11 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-211>
ISBN 978-3-11-133701-2 hard ¥15,074.- (税込) EUR 64.95 *

As the number of the non-affiliated and religiously indifferent is on the rise, this book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies. It shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large ? be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals ? impact upon the interface between the state and the religious or the non-religious. To what specific legal statuses have these processes led? What elements were taken into consideration when making these decisions? Who opted for a recognition of a non-confessional lifestance and why? Conversely, who opted for a wall of separation and why? Are things that clear cut? Doesn’t the variety of choices and frameworks offer a more varied spectrum? What continuities and discontinuities are to be observed in the history of seculars and their organizations? These patterns, divergent and entangled, are developed and explained within the broader conception of ‘multiple secularisms’.

Ward, Mark, Inside Evangelicalism: The Culture of Conservative White Christianity. 376 pp. 2024:12 (Lexington Books, US) <733-212>
ISBN 978-1-6669-4643-7 hard ¥27,885.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *

Wenkel, David H., The Virgin Birth According to Temple Christology. 226 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-214>
ISBN 978-1-66697-070-8 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00

The Virgin Birth According to Temple Christology builds an exegetical, theological, and Catholic case for understanding Jesus' incarnation as an act of divine temple construction. It attempts to explain that Jesus-the-temple had to have a virgin mother because of Jesus' unique status as the temple of God who was "made without human hands." This study answers the call to reintroduce the nexus between Christology and typology as they were originally bound together by theologians such as Athanasius of Alexandria. Unfortunately, for most of church history, Christology and typology have gone their separate ways. This divergence is so stark that the imagery and words of scripture have lost their voice in the context of Christian dogmatics. David H. Wenkel demonstrates that a typological study of biblical persons, events, and institutions can increase our understanding of Jesus, especially of his virginal conception. Thus, this study is a resource for a wide range of Christian traditions.

Yulianti, The Making of Buddhism in Modern Indonesia: South and Southeast Asian Networks and Agencies, 1900-1959. (Global Connections: Routes and Roots 10) 290 pp. 2024 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <733-215>
ISBN 978-90-8728-394-0 hard ¥30,131.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

Zeno Conedera, Sam, Alfonso Salmeron on the Scriptures: Theological Perspectives from a Founding Jesuit (1515-1585). (Catholicisms, c.1450-c.1800) 332 pp. 2024:12 (Durham U. IMEMS Pr., UK) <733-216>
ISBN 978-1-914967-06-1 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

A ground-breaking study that unveils, for the first time, the entirety of a founding Jesuit's theology. Revered as a founder of the Jesuit order, an accomplished preacher, a papal theologian at all three sessions of the Council of Trent, and the provincial of Naples, Alfonso Salmeron was a significant figure in the intellectual life and ecclesiastical affairs of the sixteenth century. His Commentaries represent one of the most ambitious theological-exegetical endeavours of the post-Tridentine period. Fr. Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ, brings long-overdue recognition to a foundational figure and key theologian of the order. Here, presented for the first time, is a detailed overview of Salmeron's writings and theology. It explores the author's creative use of history, his endeavour to integrate Scripture and tradition, and his exposition of the mysteries of the Christian faith. As Conedera shows, Salmeron's approach to controversial Reformation issues, such as the veneration of Mary, justification, the sacraments, and the nature of the Church, combined respect for tradition with innovation. Furthermore, his moral teachings offer profound insights into significant societal issues of the period, including public worship and the relations between the sexes. Salmeron's brief yet carefully crafted discussion of the Society of Jesus provides invaluable insight into the self-perception of the first generation of Jesuits. This book highlights the ways in which this exceptional figure enriches our understanding of early modern Catholicism and Jesuit history.

ヨーロッパと中世日本の終焉
Hudson, Mark, Europe and the End of Medieval Japan. (Past Imperfect) 136 pp. 2024:10 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <733-144>
ISBN 978-1-80270-183-8 paper ¥5,054.- (税込) GB￡ 17.95 *

Isgandarova, Nazila, Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy: The Power of Muraqabah. 188 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-145>
ISBN 978-1-032-62356-6 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-62349-8 paper ¥8,163.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99 *

Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy is a guide for Muslim spiritual care providers, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and others who use spiritual and religious concepts, values, and rituals as novel interventions to offer culturally appropriate mental health services. Chapters lay out the practice of muraqabah as a strategy for addressing mental and emotional disturbances such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, attention-deficit disorders, and more. Using hermeneutical data, Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy presents the processes and ethics of the muraqabah technique in Islamic spiritual care and psychotherapy.