New Books in Religion

Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
1
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
2
Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" ...
Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.
60 min
3
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
4
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
5
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
6
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
7
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
8
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
9
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
10
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
11
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
12
Magdalena Maria Turek, "Buddhist Hermits in Eas...
75 min
13
Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Chris...
52 min
14
Beth M. Stovell, "Mapping Metaphorical Discours...
23 min
15
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: ...
38 min
16
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Pa...
47 min
17
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Rel...
48 min
18
Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Tr...
An interview with Daniel C. Matt
29 min
19
Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and...
35 min
20
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: Th...
51 min
21
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, "Underworld Work: Black Atl...
57 min
22
Claudia Setzer, "The Progressives' Bible: How S...
53 min
23
Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish, "A ...
58 min
24
Pope Leo XIV (with Christopher White)
49 min
25
Daniel I. Block, "Hearing the Gospel According ...
29 min