New Books in Religion
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Monika Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, W...
An interview with Monika Black
55 min
1627
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, "Ars Vitae: The Fate of ...
An interview with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
67 min
1628
Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam ...
An interview with Justine Howe
37 min
1629
Ronald Hutton, "The Triumph of the Moon: A Hist...
An interview with Ronald Hutton
26 min
1630
Timothy Larsen, "The Oxford Handbook of Christm...
An interview with Timothy Larsen
43 min
1631
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist...
An interview with Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck
59 min
1632
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History o...
An interview with Jeff Levin
51 min
1633
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1634
David Henig, "Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday I...
An interview with David Henig
55 min
1635
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook...
Maharaj offers first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy...
48 min
1636
Amanda J. Lucia, "White Utopias: The Religious ...
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world...
52 min
1637
E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Cl...
Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided...
35 min
1638
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Relig...
Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...
57 min
1639
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...
49 min
1640
M. T. Mulder and G. Marti, "The Glass Church: R...
Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..
53 min
1641
S. Newcombe and K. O'Brien-Kop, "Routledge Hand...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques...
46 min
1642
Jonathan Boyarin, "Yeshiva Days: Learning on th...
Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...
62 min
1643
Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical...
Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....
51 min
1644
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min
1645
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1646
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of ...
Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...
36 min
1647
Antonia Bosanquet, "Minding their Place: Space ...
How was the relationship between Muslim and non-Muslim communities theologically and spatially imagined in the premodern world?
56 min
1648
E. Goldberg et al, "Bollywood Horrors: Religion...
The authors offer is a multi-faceted and wide-ranging collection that examines cinematic representations of real-life horror...
46 min
1649
T. C. F. Stunt, "The Life and Times of Samuel P...
Stunt shows how Tregelles moved from humble origins, overcoming educational barriers through ambition and determination, to become a serious rival to textual critics like Constantin von Tischendorf,..
36 min
1650
Michel Boivin, "The Sufi Paradigm and the Makin...
Boivin maps the construction of a vernacular knowledge (as opposed to colonial knowledge) of a complex Sufi paradigm in Sindh by both British Orientalists, such as Richard Burton, but also Sindhi intelligentsia, like Mirza Qalich Beg...
69 min