Recommended Reading

Highlighting Reformation and Halloween from the Woodstock and Lauinger Collections

While October 31st is often associated with Halloween, there is another holiday which coincides on the same day---Reformation Day, the date Martin Luther allegedly nailed his 95 theses to All Souls Church, kickstarting the Reformation. This month’s “Recommended Reading” display will highlight material related to both Halloween, particularly its religious roots in All-Hallows-Eve, and the history, legacy, and theology of the Reformation.

To delve into Halloween’s history, check out Holy Holidays! The Catholic Origins of Celebration. The book details how pagan and Christian traditions around All Souls Day brought us the holiday we now know and love. Providing an investigation into one of Halloween’s many cast of characters, Jonathan Durant presents a history of witches, beyond simple caricature and costume, in Witchcraft, Gender, and Society in Early Modern Germany.

To understand how the Reformation started over 500 years ago, and to see why Martin Luther was such a charismatic figure, check out Martin Luther in Context and the Annotated Pastoral Writings. For a greater understanding of Luther’s global legacy, consult Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective, which examines how Luther’s theology influenced, and continues to influence, “Liberation Theology” in Latin America.

• A Hallowe'en anthology : literary and historical writings over the centuries
  PS509.H29 H33 2008
• A history of exorcism in Catholic Christianity
  BX2340 .Y68 2016
  Young, Francis author (Francis Kendrick)
• A larger hope? : universal salvation from the reformation to the nineteenth century
  BS680.U55 P37 2019
  Parry, Robin A.
• All Hallows' Eve;
  PR6045.I5 A45 1948
  Williams, Charles
• American exorcism : expelling demons in the land of plenty
  BV873.E8 C86 2001
  Cuneo, Michael W.
• Canidia, Rome's first witch
  PA6411 .P33 2017
  Paule, Maxwell Teitel
• Carteggio durante l'ultima fase del concilio di Trento (1561-1563)
  270.603 C817, 49
  Foscarari, Egidio
• Debating the sacraments : print and authority in the early Reformation
  BR307 .B87 2019
  Burnett, Amy Nelson
• Evangelio : ein Luther-Roman
  PT2688.A45 E93 2017
  Zaimoglu, Feridun
• Feuer : der Luther-Roman
  PT2672.E87 F48 2014
  Lewin, Waldtraut
• Holy holidays! : the Catholic origins of celebration
  BV43 .T63 2011
  Tobin, Greg
• Jesuit intellectual and physical exchange between England and mainland Europe, c. 1580-1789 : "the world is our house"?
  BX3716 .J47 2019
• Luther and liberation : a Latin American perspective
  BR333.2 .A4913 2015
  Altmann, Walter
• Luther the preacher
  270.6 L977, M41
  Meuser, Fred W
• Martin Luther
  BR325 .M936 2014
  Mullett, Michael A.
• Martin Luther : an introduction to his life and work
  270.6 L977, L63
  Lohse, Bernhard
• Martin Luther : the Christian between God and death
  270.6 L977, M37
  Marius, Richard
• Martin Luther in context
  BR332.5 .M374 2018
• Martin Luther's basic theological writings
  BR331.E5 M37 2005
  Luther, Martin
• Martin Luther's basic theological writings.
  BR331.E5 M37 2012
  Luther, Martin
• Martin Luther's legacy : reforming reformation theology for the 21st century
  BR333.3 .E555 2017
  Ellingsen, Mark
• Possessed women, haunted states : cultural tensions in exorcism cinema
  PN1995.9.E948 O47 2017
  Olson, Christopher J.
• Remembering the Reformation : Martin Luther and Catholic theology
  BR334.3 .R467 2017
• Spirit possession and exorcism : history, psychology, and neurobiology
  BL482 .M36 2011
  McNamara, Patrick
• Subversive orthodoxy : outlaws, revolutionaries, and other Christians in disguise
  BR115.C8 I475 2005
  Inchausti, Robert
• The Devil within : possession and exorcism in the Christian West
  BV873.E8 L48 2013
  Levack, Brian P.
• The Reformation and the irrepressible word of God : interpretation, theology, and practice
  BS447 .R44 2019
• The age of reformation : the Tudor and Stewart realms, 1485-1603
  BR375 .R97 2017
  Ryrie, Alec
• The bedevilment of Elizabeth Lorentz
  BT975 .B43 2018
• The dawn of the Reformation : essays in late medieval and early Reformation thought
  270.6 OB2, D3
  Oberman, Heiko Augustinus.
• The devil's mortal weapons : an anthology of late medieval and Protestant vernacular theology and popular culture
  BR375 .M55 2018
  Miles, Joanna
• The exorcism stories in Luke-Acts : a sociostylistic reading
  BS2280 .M66 v. 129
  Klutz, Todd.
• The heretic
  PQ6607.E45 H4713 2006
  Delibes, Miguel.
• The meaning of Protestant theology : Luther, Augustine, and the Gospel that gives us Christ
  BR333.3 .C37 2019
  Cary, Phillip
• The monastery
  PR5320 .M6 2000
  Scott, Walter
• The ninety-five theses and other writings
  BR331 .E5 2017c
  Luther, Martin
• The soul of America : the battle for our better angels
  E169.1 .M4977 2018
  Meacham, Jon
• The world of All Souls : the complete guide to A discovery of witches, Shadow of night, and The Book of Life
  PS3608.A7436 Z73 2018
  Harkness, Deborah E.
• Warum Luther die Reformation versemmelt hat : eine Streitschrift
  PT2664.E4 W37 2017
  Delius, Friedrich Christian
• Witchcraft accusations and persecutions as a mechanism for the marginalisation of women
  BF1572.S4 S64 2017
  Spence, Samantha
• Witchcraft, exorcism and the politics of possession in a seventeenth-century convent : 'how Sister Ursula was once bewiched and Sister Margaret twice'
  BX2340 .W58 2007
  Hallett, Nicky.
• Witchcraft, gender, and society in early modern Germany
  BR301 .S88 v. 124
  Durrant, Jonathan B. (Jonathan Bryan)
• Women and ghosts
  PS3562.U7 W66 1994
  Lurie, Alison.
• Writing as exorcism : the personal codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol
  PG3015.5.A8 K88 2005
  Kutik, Ilʹi͡a.
• Zen spirit, Christian spirit : the place of Zen in Christian life
  261.243927 K386, Z4
  Kennedy, Robert E.