Reviews

The following book reviews I have written are, in most cases, versions of the reviews prior to minor copyediting by journal publishers.  For the purposes of citation please see the actual publications. 

Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era by Priscilla Pope-Levison. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Reviewed in The American Historical Review, 119, no. 5 (December 2014): 1703-1704.

 

Reading a Different Story: A Christian Scholar’s Journey from America to Africa by Susan Vanzanten. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013. Reviewed in International Bulletin of Missionary Research 38, no. 3 (July 2014): 154

 

Methodist Experience in America (three volume series) by Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe, and Leigh Schmidt. Nashville: Abingdon Press. Reviewed in Methodist History 51, no. 4 (July 2013): 292-294.

 

Word versus Deed: Resetting the Scales to a Biblical Balance by Duane Litfin. Reviewed in Prism (March/April 2013): 39-40.

 

Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches by Omri Elisha. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Reviewed in Prism  (2012).

 

God and the Atlantic: America Europe, and the Religious Divide by Thomas Albert Howard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Reviewed in Journal of American History ( 2012).

 

Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America by William Kostlevy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Reviewed in Wesleyan Theological Journal, (2012).

 

For the Love of God: NGOs and Religious Identity in a Violent World by Shawn Teresa Flanigan,” Reviewed in Prism July/August (2010):

 

The New Shape of World Christianity by Mark A. Noll,” Reviewed in Prism 16, no. 3 September/October (2009): 35-36.

 

Who Gets to Narrate the World by Robert E. Webber,” Reviewed in Prism 16, no.1 January/February (2009): 35-36.

 

United Methodism at Forty,” by Charles Yrigoyen Jr, John G. McEllhenney, and Kenneth E. Rowe, Reviewed in Newspirit 8, no. 4 May (2008): 12.