Reviews

Anthony F. D'Elia. Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. x + 355 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-08851-1.

Reviewed by Brian J. Maxson (East Tennessee State University) Published on H-Catholic (March, 2017) Commissioned by Carolina Armenteros

Carolina Armenteros, Richard Lebrun, eds. Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers: From Friedrich Gentz to Isaiah Berlin. Brill, 2011. pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-19394-9.

Reviewed by Thomas Kselman (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-Catholic (April, 2016) Commissioned by Matt Vester

Reza Aslan. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. 336 pp. $18.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8129-8148-3.François Laruelle. Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem. Translated by Robin Mackay. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xvi + 273 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16724-6.

John Lynch. New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 424 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-16680-4.John Frederick Schwaller. The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond. New York: New York University Press, 2011. ix + 319 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-4003-3.

Mark Z. Christensen. Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv + 318 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8528-0.

Reviewed by Lisa Edwards (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) Published on H-Catholic (August, 2015) Commissioned by Carolina Armenteros

Multiple Catholicisms in Colonial Mexico

Stephen J. C. Andes. The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile: The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 272 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-968848-7.

Reviewed by Yuri Contreras-Véjar (Professor and Associated Researcher, Universidad Diego Portales) Published on H-Catholic (May, 2015) Commissioned by Carolina Armenteros

Antoine Arjakovsky. _The Way_: Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 1925-1940. Translated by Jerry Ryan. Edited by John A. Jillions and Michael Plekon. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. xiv + 766 pages. $65.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-02040-8.

Reviewed by Frederick Matern (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Catholic (December, 2014) Commissioned by Carolina Armenteros