New Books in Religion

Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books

Religion & Spirituality
1651
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion ...
Beginning in the mid 19th century, thousands of indentured laborers traveled from India to the Caribbean, and many settled in Trinidad...
42 min
1652
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Isla...
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
64 min
1653
Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min
1654
Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious L...
Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...
52 min
1655
Patrick Schreiner, "Matthew, Disciple and Scrib...
Schreiner provides a fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew...
41 min
1656
Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American Histor...
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...
27 min
1657
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
1658
Larry E. Morris, "A Documentary History of the ...
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...
48 min
1659
Evdoxios Doxiadis, "State, Nationalism, and the...
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty?
48 min
1660
Matthew E. Ferris, "If One Uses It Lawfully: Th...
One of the most enduring debates within protestant theology has been the discussion about how the law of Moses relates to the Christian life...
32 min
1661
E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity an...
It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?
92 min
1662
Holly Rogers, "The Mindful Twenty-Something" (N...
Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.
53 min
1663
Arik Moran, "Kingship and Polity on the Himalay...
Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.
51 min
1664
William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Lumi...
Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...
63 min
1665
Levi McLaughlin, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolutio...
Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism...
45 min
1666
William Elison, "The Neighborhood of Gods: The ...
Elison explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members of other marginalized groups use religious icons to mark urban spaces in Mumbai...
64 min
1667
Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist M...
Jansen discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies...
59 min
1668
M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History...
Did the early Christians believe their myths?
58 min
1669
Max Oidtmann, "Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing...
Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?
72 min
1670
Daniel Veidlinger, "From Indra’s Net to Interne...
Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.
54 min
1671
Jonathan G. Kline, "Keep Up Your Biblical Greek...
Kline has published a series of books that provide one-sentence daily readings in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic...
37 min
1672
Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: ...
The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..
52 min
1673
Julia Cassaniti, "Remembering the Present: Mind...
How do you understand mindfulness?
98 min
1674
Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
1675
Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natu...
Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...
49 min