New Books in Religion

Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
1626
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Fai...
Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,
47 min
1627
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
1628
Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: T...
Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...
42 min
1629
Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...
In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?
44 min
1630
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
1631
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1632
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
1633
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
1634
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
1635
Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
26 min
1636
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1637
Ira Helderman, "Prescribing the Dharma: Psychot...
Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...
60 min
1638
Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology a...
The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...
65 min
1639
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Mission...
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...
25 min
1640
Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religi...
Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...
82 min
1641
Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pe...
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...
57 min
1642
Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan:...
Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...
60 min
1643
Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Ex...
Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...
63 min
1644
Andrew Steinmann, "Genesis: An Introduction and...
Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God's promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel...
38 min
1645
Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: ...
Was ancient India ruled by politics or religion?
40 min
1646
Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumen...
Makdisi dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably sectarian and complicates the often overstated binary of “secular” and religious...
49 min
1647
Esau McCaulley, "Sharing in the Son's Inheritan...
McCaulley examines the nature of land, prophesy, and Jewish/Christian understandings of Messianic fulfillment..
48 min
1648
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Du...
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
42 min
1649
Hans Boersma, "Seeing God: The Beatific Vision ...
Boersma introduces readers to the historic teaching of Christian theology concerning beatitude—the eschatological reality of being in the presence of God...
47 min
1650
Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authent...
Werczberger examined two Israeli communities of spiritual seekers in Israel..
47 min