New Books in Religion

Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
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David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History"...
26 min
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Mariam F. Ayad ed., "Coptic Culture and Communi...
76 min
28
Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Jewish Ethics: The Basic...
42 min
29
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
30
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythica...
An interview with Marla Segol
54 min
31
David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in...
32 min
32
Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: ...
77 min
33
Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness...
29 min
34
Iban Heritage and Culture in Malaysia
18 min
35
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakar...
73 min
36
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in...
52 min
37
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, "Remembering Sufferin...
62 min
38
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta...
25 min
39
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
40
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Re...
96 min
41
Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering...
31 min
42
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
43
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
44
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
45
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
46
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
47
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
48
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
49
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
50
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