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  • ISSN: 0022-0469 (Print), 1469-7637 (Online)
  • Editors: Dr James Carleton Paget University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor Alec Ryrie Durham University, UK
  • Editorial board
Since 1950 The Journal of Ecclesiastical History has published original research articles, scholarly reviews, review articles, notes and documents, relating to all aspects of the history of Christianity. The journal's scope extends to cultural, institutional, intellectual, political, social and any other relevant form of history; to all periods from ancient to modern; and to all regions of the world. Contributors address detailed research questions as well as engaging with the wider issues in the field.

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  • Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
  • 08 April 2026, Dr Francesca Baldwin
  • Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…...