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Tad DeLay, "Against: What Does the White Evang...
DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...
63 min
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Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" ...
Balint and Mack offer a fascinating journey through Jerusalem’s libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words...
42 min
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Nijay Gupta, "Paul and the Language of Faith" (...
Faith language permeates the letters of Paul. Yet, its exact meaning is not always clear...
48 min
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Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and...
Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...
81 min
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Lydia Barnett, "After the Flood: Imagining the ...
Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...
41 min
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Matthew D. O'Hara, "The History of the Future i...
O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...
32 min
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Tim Perry, "The Theology of Benedict XVI: A Pro...
Perry's collection of essays shows how seriously protestants are taking Benedict’s claims...
28 min
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Jane D. Hatter, "Composing Community in Late Me...
Hatter shows that the repertory she studies reflects a musical culture that valued intergenerational connections between artists and compositional virtuosity...
54 min
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David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...
73 min
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Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade...
Chamedes explores how World War I galvanized the central government of the Catholic Church to craft its own variety of internationalism...
67 min
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Ian J. Vaillancourt, "The Multifaceted Saviour ...
How should we understand the appearances of the king in Book V of the Hebrew Psalter?
62 min
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Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the De...
Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian...
31 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Andrew Roberts, "Leadership in War: Lessons Fro...
This outstanding contribution identifies significant new themes in its collective biography of some of those individuals who, for good or ill, have done most to shape the modern world...
30 min
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Lian Xi, "Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Li...
In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...
75 min
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Michael J. Gorman, "Participating in Christ: Ex...
Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ, a topic of great interest in New Testament circles and one that is central to Paul's theology and spirituality...
43 min
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Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing ...
McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..
32 min
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Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of t...
Fones-Wolf discusses the role of religion in the CIO's Operation Dixie, and provides perspective on the participation of faith communities in the modern labor movement...
30 min
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Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: T...
Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...
42 min
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Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and...
What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?
21 min
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Eugene Schlesinger, "Sacrificing the Church: Ma...
Schlesinger writes about the intermingling of three key elements of Christian worshipping communities: the eucharist, mission and outreach to the wider world, and the unity between Christian faith traditions...
52 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State ...
McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...
52 min
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Dan Jones, "Crusaders: The Epic History of the ...
Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....
38 min
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Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zioni...
Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...
31 min