Historians and religious scholars examine how Swiss Reformation leader Calvin (1509-64) was perceived, remembered, represented, constructed, and manipulated by advocates and adversaries over the course of the past two centuries. Among the contexts they explore are 19th-century Catholic France, the reformer and legislator seen by French Protestants, Hungarian religion, a marginalized memory in Germany, missionary memory and Chinese Protestant identity, Calvin as a negative boundary marker in American Lutheran self-identity 1871-1934, his image within Mormonism, and Mark Twain's burlesque of him as The French Barber. Only people are indexed. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)