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Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Rel...
Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...
56 min
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Betsy Perabo, "Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-...
Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...
46 min
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Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of ...
Wilken offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire...
59 min
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Melvin C. Johnson, "Life and Times of John Pier...
Hawley was an active member of several Latter Day Restoration denominations in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Texas, the Indian Nations of Oklahoma, and Utah Territory from 1838 to 1909...
76 min
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Emily S. Johnson, "This Is Our Message: Women's...
Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...
47 min
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Christopher J. H. Wright, "The Old Testament in...
Some people find the Old Testament to be confusing, out of date, and essentially replaced by the New Testament. They are missing out...
36 min
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Darren Dochuk, "Anointed with Oil: How Christia...
Dochuk places religion and oil at the center of American history...
48 min
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Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
57 min
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Jeffrey T. Zalar, "Reading and Rebellion in Cat...
Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression...
59 min
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Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s E...
Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...
54 min
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Scott Harrower, "God of All Comfort: A Trinitar...
Harrower takes on the tremendous topic: the problem of horrific evil that seems to omnipresent in today’s world...
48 min
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Rebecca Janzen, "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonite...
Janzen examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture...
51 min
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Craig Keener, "Galatians: A Commentary" (Baker ...
Keener's commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians offers a wealth of fresh insights...
50 min
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Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelica...
Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..
44 min
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Terence Keel, "Divine Variations: How Christian...
With trenchant analyses of Christian intellectual history and the founding figures of ethnology, Keel documents an infrastructure of thought – about universalism, the supercession of knowledge, creation, and human dispersion – that shaped and still shapes the science of race...
51 min
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Harvard S. Heath, "Confidence Amid Change: The ...
With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...
55 min
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Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, "The Solemn League and C...
MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...
32 min
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Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Em...
Though commonly used today to identify a polity that lasted for over a millennium, the label “Byzantine empire” is an anachronism imposed by more recent generations...
45 min
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John West, "Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, ...
John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...
35 min
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Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuc...
For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...
21 min
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Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, "The Chinese Sisters of the P...
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu opens up an important new archive in Hong Kong to illuminate the complex and challenging story of the only entirely indigenous congregation of Chinese Catholic sisters...
38 min
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Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Ox...
One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.
53 min
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Dirk Jongkind, "An Introduction to the Greek Ne...
Is the New Testament text reliable? What do we do with textual variants? How do I use the Greek New Testament?
26 min
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Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: T...
A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...
52 min
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Guy Beiner, "Forgetful Remembering: Social Forg...
Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...
33 min