New Books in Religion

Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
1526
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....
62 min
1527
Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreadi...
Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...
36 min
1528
Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: T...
Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.
65 min
1529
Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation The...
Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...
44 min
1530
Mark A. Nathan, "From the Mountains to the Citi...
Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...
90 min
1531
Marika Rose, "A Theology of Failure: Žižek Agai...
Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....
60 min
1532
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Liv...
The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...
78 min
1533
Laura S. Grillo, "An Intimate Rebuke: Female Ge...
What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?
77 min
1534
Mayfair Yang, "Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual ...
Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..
60 min
1535
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, “Material Acts in ...
This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....
59 min
1536
Schneur Zalman Newfield, "Degrees of Separation...
Newfield presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview...
61 min
1537
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”
58 min
1538
Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions:...
Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...
59 min
1539
Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Proph...
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...
54 min
1540
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgre...
Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...
69 min
1541
David L. Haberman, “Loving Stones: Making the I...
Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...
72 min
1542
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part I: MA i...
In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...
59 min
1543
Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Ri...
Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...
36 min
1544
Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey...
Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....
60 min
1545
Alastair J. Roberts, "Echoes of Exodus: Tracing...
The exodus—the story of God leading his chosen people out of slavery in Egypt—stands as a pivotal event in the Old Testament...
31 min
1546
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Cla...
The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...
76 min
1547
Candi K. Cann, "Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Pe...
"Dying to Eat" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the role of food in rituals surrounding death and dying from around the globe...
50 min
1548
Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...
29 min
1549
Kevin W. Fogg, "Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution"...
Fogg analyzes the religious aspirations that motivated many Muslim revolutionaries to fight the return of Dutch after the Second World War and envision a new nation-state...
49 min
1550
Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" ...
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?
50 min