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Derek R. Sainsbury, "Storming the Nation: The U...
Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....
41 min
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Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History ...
Ryrie offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism...
64 min
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Hilde Løvdal Stephens, "Family Matters: James D...
Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...
33 min
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Philip A. Craig, "The Bond of Grace and Duty in...
Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...
34 min
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Joe Geisner, "Writing Mormon History: Historian...
In this book, well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past...
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G. K. Beale and Benjamin L. Gladd, "The Story R...
The authors explore each New Testament book in light of the broad history of redemption, emphasizing the biblical-theological themes of each New Testament book...
15 min
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Elisheva A. Perelman, "American Evangelists and...
Perelman examines the consequences of Japan’s decision not to tackle the tuberculosis epidemic that ravaged the country during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth....
89 min
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Thomas John Lappas, "In League Against King Alc...
Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...
56 min
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Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford U...
"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...
63 min
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Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Na...
Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...
39 min
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Taylor Petrey, "Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality ...
A path-breaking work of religion and gender and sexuality, "Tabernacles of Clay" sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in the recent Latter-day Saint past.
36 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Vanessa Cook, "Spiritual Socialists: Religion a...
Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...
50 min
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Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Mar...
Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....
53 min
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Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bu...
Quammen situates the Bundy standoff within the long and convoluted history of Mormon migration into the American West—and provides an exciting new take on religion in modern American politics...
47 min
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John D. Caputo, "Hoping Against Hope" (Fortress...
Caputo’s conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself:...
73 min
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Nijay Gupta, "Beginner's Guide to New Testament...
Gupta offers an accessible and balanced introduction that helps readers sort out key views on the most important debated issues in New Testament studies...
62 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an A...
The myth of Jews killing Christian children emerged in 1144 CE, with the death of a boy named William in Norwich, England...
63 min
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Robert Elmer, "Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the ...
Elmer's anthology provides access into a world of religious practice that is otherwise lost – many puritans refusing on principle to put their prayers to paper...
30 min
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Richard M. Gamble, "A Fiery Gospel: The Battle ...
America’s most famous hymn was created in very unusual circumstances...
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Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heav...
Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...
58 min
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Benjamin E. Park, "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise ...
Park examines a neglected part of the Mormon past -- the establishment of a thriving Latter-day Saint metropolis in Illinois. In Nauvoo,..
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Samuel Gregg, "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle ...
So what is Western Civilization, anyway?
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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