Of Handbooks, Companions, and Essay Collections
Recent Multi-Authored Volumes on Calvin and Calvinism, the Genevan Reformation, and Global Protestantism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3684418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Benedict (University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 126-140 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000964072400060x |
| OpenAlex | W4404023950 |
| Language | EN |
Readers of this journal will surely have noticed the remarkable proliferation in the past few decades of "handbooks" and "companions" devoted to major - and even obscure - topics, thinkers, and actors in religious history. The simultaneous appearance in 2021 of The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism and Brill's Companion to the Reformation in Geneva provides an opportunity to reflect on the character and value of such volumes, the conditions of their production, and the reasons for their recent proliferation. Also discussed here for purposes of comparison will be an ambitious collection of essays of a more conventional sort: Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations, edited by Ulinka Rublack.1
Calvinism · English Reformation · Protestantism · Theology · Classics · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |