Carmen M. Mangion teaches modern British history at Birkbeck University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain relating to the formation and re-imagining of religious identities during times of social change. Her current research has two strands, the first examines the decline of the lay sister category of religious life. The second, interrogates the gendered nature of the Catholic medical missionary movement, 1891-1951, in both Britain and Ireland.Susan O'Brien is a Senior Member of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge and a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Staffordshire University and former Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge. Her research has centred on transatlantic evangelical revivalism and nineteenth-century Catholicism in Britain, Ireland, and France. She is currently working on two projects: the edited correspondence of Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900) and an oral-based history of Catholic religious men and women in inner city ministry in England 1970-2000.

This is a splendid volume which manages to introduce the current state of historiography across many highly contested areas, while also offering insightful and judicious interpretations.

• 1: Carmen M. Mangion: Catholic Revivals in Britain and Ireland 2: Peter Doyle: Episcopal Leaders and Leadership 3: Kate Jordan: Architecture and Buildings: Building the Post-Emancipation Church 4: Judith Champ: Priests, priesthood, and parish life 5: Maurice Whitehead,Deirdre Raftery,Jane McDermid: Education and schooling 6: Ciarán McCabe: Caritas: poverty and social action 7: Salvador Ryan: Devotional and Sacramental Cultures 8: Susan O'Brien: The Blessed Virgin Mary 9: Bennett Zon: Music as Theology 10: John Wolffe: Anti-Catholicism and Religious Rivalry 11: V. Alan McClelland: Catholics, Politics, and the State in Britain 12: Oliver P. Rafferty: Church and State, and Nationalism in Ireland 13: James H. Murphy: Catholic Fiction: Catholics in Fiction 14: Colin Barr: Irish Diaspora and Ireland's Spiritual Empire 15: Hilary M. Carey: Overseas Missions 16: Andrew Pierce: Modernity and Anti-Modernism, 1850-1910

Carmen M. Mangion teaches modern British history at Birkbeck University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain relating to the formation and re-imagining of religious identities during times of social change. Her current research has two strands, the first examines the decline of the lay sister category of religious life. The second, interrogates the gendered nature of the Catholic medical missionary movement, 1891-1951, in both Britain and Ireland.Susan O'Brien is a Senior Member of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge and a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Staffordshire University and former Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge. Her research has centred on transatlantic evangelical revivalism and nineteenth-century Catholicism in Britain, Ireland, and France. She is currently working on two projects: the edited correspondence of Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900) and an oral-based history of Catholic religious men and women in inner city ministry in England 1970-2000.

This is a splendid volume which manages to introduce the current state of historiography across many highly contested areas, while also offering insightful and judicious interpretations.

• 1: Carmen M. Mangion: Catholic Revivals in Britain and Ireland 2: Peter Doyle: Episcopal Leaders and Leadership 3: Kate Jordan: Architecture and Buildings: Building the Post-Emancipation Church 4: Judith Champ: Priests, priesthood, and parish life 5: Maurice Whitehead,Deirdre Raftery,Jane McDermid: Education and schooling 6: Ciarán McCabe: Caritas: poverty and social action 7: Salvador Ryan: Devotional and Sacramental Cultures 8: Susan O'Brien: The Blessed Virgin Mary 9: Bennett Zon: Music as Theology 10: John Wolffe: Anti-Catholicism and Religious Rivalry 11: V. Alan McClelland: Catholics, Politics, and the State in Britain 12: Oliver P. Rafferty: Church and State, and Nationalism in Ireland 13: James H. Murphy: Catholic Fiction: Catholics in Fiction 14: Colin Barr: Irish Diaspora and Ireland's Spiritual Empire 15: Hilary M. Carey: Overseas Missions 16: Andrew Pierce: Modernity and Anti-Modernism, 1850-1910