The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833 by Peter S. Field.  LEO HIRRELL

For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood. By Sandy Dwayne Martin. JUDITH WEISENFELD 

Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, by Catherine A. Brekus. LEO HIRREL 

Emotion and Postmodernism, Gerhard Hoffman and Alfred Hornung, eds. JOHN CORRIGAN

New Directions in American Religious History, Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart, eds. LEO HIRREL

Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery, John R. McKivigan and Mitchell Snay eds. LEO HIRREL

Book Reviews

NEW Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion by Thomas A. Tweed. MICHAEL FERBER

Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity by R. Marie Griffith. KELLY J. BAKER

O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs by Julie Byrne. MICHAEL PASQUIER

A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom. BRIANE K TURLEY

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History by Philip Jenkins. MICHAEL ASHCRAFT

A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, by Andrew Manis. JUDITH WEISENFELD,

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt by Christine Leigh Heyrman. WILLIAM BUNNER

Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism. Edith L. Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant A. Wacker, eds. CONNIE PARK RICE

The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader  GERALD R. MCDERMOTT

A Special Roundtable Review of Bill J. Leonard, ed., Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism Profiles in Regional Pluralism

Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited  by Samuel Hill. MARK BELL

A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South by Eugene Genovese. JOHN HICKS

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, by John H. Wigger. LEO HIRREL

Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform, by Leo Hirrel.  THOMAS CARNEY

In His Steps, by Charles Sheldon. ADRIN RAIKES