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Today's featured book:

Margaret Waller, "Napoleon's Closet: The Emperor, the Priest, and the Men Who Invented Modern Fashion," Columbia University Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Florian Michel, trans. Msgr. Gerald E. Twaddell, KCHS, "Voyages of Catholic Thought Between Europe and North America, 1920-1960," Catholic University of America Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Martina Cucchiara, "Faith Under Fascism: Catholic Sisters in Nazi Germany," Notre Dame Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Robert E. Cray, "The Wickedest Man in New York: Faith, Sensationalism, and the Water Street Sham Revival of 1868," Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Cosima Clara Gillhammer, "Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy," Reaktion Books, 2025

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Today's featured book:

Paul S. Cha, "Forging Protestant Allies: How the Cold War Recast South Korea as a Landscape of Christian Vitality," Oxford University Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Lee M. Panich and Gustavo Flores, "We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions," University of Nebraska Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Joel R. Iliff, "The Great Communion of Scholars: Evangelical Southerners and the Birth of Modern Intellectual Authority," Louisiana State University Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Aliza Luft, "Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust," Harvard University Press, 2026

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Today's featured book:

Paul C. Gutjahr, "Faith in Space: American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life," Princeton University Press, 2026

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It's time to fall into a good book with our September books of the month list!

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This prize is granted to an advanced graduate student or recent PhD for the best unpublished article from dissertation research that contributes significantly to the history of Christianity more broadly. The article will be published in a forthcoming issue of Church History.

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Congratulations to Yucheng Bai (Fuller Theological Seminary) for winning the Sidney E. Mead Prize, for "American City on a Chinese Hill."

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and Aram Sarkisian, "Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era" (NYU Press, 2025).
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Congratulations to Jesse Zexi Sun (Belmont University) for winning the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, for "Salvation and Revolution: A Twentieth Century Odyssey of the Chinese Protestant Mind," (Oxford University Press, 2025) https://t.co/rR9vov4Ak9

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The other finalists for the Brewer Prize this year were Daniel E. An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (University of California Press, 2025) @ucpress
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and Christopher Bonura, A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination (University of California Press, 2025). @ucpress
https://t.co/jXedNhNz6b

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Congratulations to Asunción Lavrin (Arizona State University) for winning the Albert C. Outler Prize, for "Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico" (University of Nebraska Press, 2025)
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The other finalists for the Outler Prize this year were Katharine Gerbner, Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2025) @DukePress
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