New Books in Religion

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  • Holy, Catholic, Apostolic (with Paul Zucarelli)
    Nov 7, 2024 – 01:13:18
  • Joanne Rosenthal, "Sex: Jewish Positions" (Hirmer Verlag, 2024)
    Nov 4, 2024 – 42:47
  • Mark Stoyle, "A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549" (Yale UP, 2022)
    Nov 3, 2024 – 46:35
  • Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
    Nov 2, 2024 – 32:51
  • Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
    Nov 1, 2024 – 55:58
  • Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
    Nov 1, 2024 – 55:32
  • Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)
    Oct 31, 2024 – 31:55
  • Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
    Oct 30, 2024 – 01:29:57
  • Peter Harrison, "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Oct 29, 2024 – 01:00:01
  • Alister E. McGrath, "The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Oct 28, 2024 – 41:42
  • Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Oct 28, 2024 – 01:06:58
  • Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
    Oct 26, 2024 – 01:03:18
  • Daniela Bevilacqua, "From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices" (Equinox, 2024)
    Oct 24, 2024 – 32:39
  • Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)
    Oct 22, 2024 – 01:12:55
  • Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)
    Oct 19, 2024 – 01:16:58
  • Shared Paths: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Experiences in America
    Oct 17, 2024 – 41:42
  • Ora Horn Prouser et al., "Under One Tent: Circus, Judaism, and Bible" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2023)
    Oct 14, 2024 – 01:03:48
  • Judaism is About Love: A Discussion with Shai Held
    Oct 11, 2024 – 34:53
  • Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
    Oct 9, 2024 – 34:44
  • Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
    Oct 6, 2024 – 40:59
  • Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
    Oct 4, 2024 – 01:05:49
  • Deepa Das Acevedo, "The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Oct 3, 2024 – 33:38
  • Shalva Weil, "The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity" (Routledge, 2021)
    Oct 2, 2024 – 43:43
  • Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
    Oct 1, 2024 – 01:14:43
  • Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
    Sep 30, 2024 – 01:01:37
  • Courtney Ann Irby, "Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling" (NYU Press, 2024)
    Sep 27, 2024 – 01:04:34
  • Michael C. Baltutis, "What is Hinduism?: A Student's Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
    Sep 26, 2024 – 40:53
  • Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety" (Oxford UP/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2023)
    Sep 26, 2024 – 01:24:49
  • Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Sep 24, 2024 – 01:20:20
  • Jason A. Josephson Storm, "The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
    Sep 23, 2024 – 01:10:14
  • Soraj Hongladarom et al., "Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia" (Springer, 2024)
    Sep 21, 2024 – 53:17
  • Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)
    Sep 20, 2024 – 45:32
  • Iemima Ploscariu, "Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands" (Brill, 2024)
    Sep 19, 2024 – 48:52
  • Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
    Sep 17, 2024 – 01:17:12
  • Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)
    Sep 17, 2024 – 01:32:40
  • Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic, "The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
    Sep 13, 2024 – 01:02:20
  • Katharine J. Dell, "The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth" (Baylor UP, 2023)
    Sep 13, 2024 – 16:06
  • Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
    Sep 12, 2024 – 33:06
  • Cogen Bohanec, "Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Metaethics" (Lexington, 2024)
    Sep 12, 2024 – 53:09
  • Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought" (Jewish Publication Society, 2022)
    Sep 11, 2024 – 38:02
  • Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
    Sep 11, 2024 – 32:24
  • Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
    Sep 9, 2024 – 56:36
  • Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
    Sep 8, 2024 – 01:03:19
  • Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
    Sep 8, 2024 – 54:07
  • The Body in Classical Hathayoga, with Ruth Westoby
    Sep 8, 2024 – 57:21
  • David Zeitlyn, "Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers" (Routledge, 2021)
    Sep 7, 2024 – 01:05:12
  • Naomi Leite, "Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging" (U California Press, 2017)
    Sep 6, 2024 – 01:31:07
  • Jeannine Hanger, "Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John: The Embodied, Sensory Qualities of Participation in the I Am Sayings" (Brill, 2023)
    Sep 6, 2024 – 33:04
  • Christopher P. Miller et al., "Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age" (Lexington, 2019)
    Sep 5, 2024 – 45:40
  • Faizah Zakaria, "The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia" (U Washington Press, 2023)
    Sep 4, 2024 – 40:16
Recent Reviews
  • AGbrooklyn
    Erudite and in depth…. But where are the women?
    Love having these deep dives into religious history—but so many of these scholars are men. Maybe it’s a problem with academia or cafe mic publishing, and this podcast is just reflecting it. But there’s either a systematic problem, or a systemic one.
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