Mansfield Prize 2024 Awarded to Jens Carlesson Magalhães and Fredrik Jansson
The Mansfield Prize Committee unanimously agreed to give the award for the best article published in the Journal of Religious History (2023) to Jens Carlesson Magalhães and Fredrik Jansson for their article ‘The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852’, Journal of Religious History 47.2 (2023), 318–339. The...
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Annual General Meeting of the International Commission of Historians of Religion CIHEC, Riga, June 3-5, 2024 The International Commission of Historians of Religion and the Theological Faculty of the University of Latvia organize the general meeting of the CIHEC (cihec.org) in 2024. It will take place in Riga from June 3 to June 5, 2024. We will start on June 3 at...
Read MoreJohn Gascoigne: The history of English Presbyterianism – a review of David L. Wykes’ Congregational Lecture
David L. Wykes: Eighteenth-century English Presbyterianism and Congregationalism Reconsidered. London: The Congregational Memorial Hall Trust Ltd., (1978), 32pp. The history of English Presbyterianism in the eighteenth century has been told in teleological terms as a passage from evangelical zeal in the period of persecution in the Restoration and grudging toleration under Queen Anne to...
Read MoreAnnouncement: The Evangelical History Association Robert D. Linder Evangelical History Prize
The Evangelical History Association is pleased to announce the establishment of the Robert D Linder Evangelical History Prize. The Robert D Linder Evangelical History Prize is to serve as a memorial to the contribution of Robert D Linder to the study of Australian evangelical history. The Prize is intended to foster and recognize research and scholarship in the field of the history of...
Read MoreMansfield Prize 2023 – Tinne Claes and Yuliya Hilevych
The Mansfield Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Religious History for 2022 is awarded to: Tinne Claes and Yuliya Hilevych for their article “Aiding Marital Childlessness: Christian Religious Responses to Husband and Donor Insemination in Belgium and Britain, 1940–1980” Journal of Religious History 46:3 (2022): 503-525 The judges were impressed by the...
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