Religion of a different color. Race and the Mormon struggle for whiteness. By W. Paul Reeve . Pp. xiii + 335 incl. 36 figs. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £22.99. 978 0 19 9754 07 6

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heroes in serialised fiction), their contemporary anxieties (such as the erosion of traditional theology), their attempts to 'improve' the working-classes, and both their intended and actual readership. She argues that the parish magazine gave the Church an entrée into many homes, but had uses beyond the religious, not least as a local trade directory because of the numerous advertisements. It also gave a voice to obscure authors and editors, a forum where 'the humblest curate could be heard as loudly as any archbishop' (p. ). These voices from Anglicanism in the parishes deserve to be heard, and this volume is to be applauded for bringing such a rich archival source back on to the scholarly agenda. ANDREW ATHERSTONE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD