Chris Maunder

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Books:

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​​​Mary, Founder of Christianity, Oneworld, 2022.

​​​[As editor] The Oxford Handbook of Mary, OUP, 2019

​​​​​​Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of Mary in Twentieth Century Catholic Europe (OUP, 2016).

​​​​​[As editor) Documents of the Christian Church (OUP, 3rd and 4th editions, 1999 and 2011).

​​​​[As editor] Origins of the Cult of the Virgin Mary (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2008).

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Articles:

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​​​'Questioning the Historicity of the Virgin Conception of Jesus' in Maria, Vol 5.2, November 2025, pp 1-13.

​​​​'Mary, Queen of Peace in Twentieth-Century Apparitions' in L Skof, E A Holmes, and P Smytsnyuk (eds), Marian Reflections on War and Peace: Trauma, Mourning and Justice in Ukraine and Beyond, Routledge, 2025, pp 216-28.

​​​​'Apparitions of Mary as Revelation' in B M Mezei (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation, OUP, 2021, pp 203-18.

​​​​‘Introduction’ and ‘Mary and the Gospel Narratives’ in C Maunder (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Mary, pp 21-39, OUP, 2019.

​​​​​​​‘Marian Visionaries in Roman Catholicism as Popular Theologians: the “Lady of All Nations” of Amsterdam’ in The Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol 27.2, May 2012, pp 291-304.

​​​​​​'Mapping the Presence of Mary: Germany's Modern Apparition Shrines' in The Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol 28.1, Jan 2013, pp 79-93.

​​​​'The Footprints of Religious Enthusiasm: Great Memorials and Faint Vestiges of Belgium's Marian Apparition Mania of the 1930s' in The Journal of Religion and Society, Vol 15, pp 1-17.

​​​‘Introduction’ and ‘Origins of the Cult of the Virgin Mary in the New Testament’ in C Maunder (ed), Origins of the Cult of the Virgin Mary, pp 23-40, Burns & Oates 2008.

​​​‘Marian Shrines in Yorkshire and Roman Catholic Identity’ in S Kim & P Kollontai (eds), Community Identity: Dynamics of Religion in Context, pp 125-42, London: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2007.

​​​‘Mary in the New Testament and Apocrypha’ and ‘Apparitions of Mary’ in S J Boss (ed), Mary: The Complete Resource, pp 11-46, 424-57, London: Continuum/OUP, 2007. 

​​​​See also the profiles for 'The Lady of All Nations' and 'Nova Cana on the website http://wrldrels.org, which is managed by the World Religions and Spiritualities Project, Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A.