New Books in Religion
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1876
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
1877
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
1878
Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
26 min
1879
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
1880
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1881
Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology a...
The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...
65 min
1882
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Mission...
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...
25 min
1883
Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religi...
Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...
82 min
1884
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
1885
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
1886
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
1887
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
1888
Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: ...
Was ancient India ruled by politics or religion?
40 min
1889
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
1890
Esau McCaulley, "Sharing in the Son's Inheritan...
McCaulley examines the nature of land, prophesy, and Jewish/Christian understandings of Messianic fulfillment..
48 min
1891
A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Du...
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
42 min
1892
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
1893
Rachel Werczberger, "Jews In The Age Of Authent...
Werczberger examined two Israeli communities of spiritual seekers in Israel..
47 min
1894
Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,...
Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...
62 min
1895
Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (...
Sarna chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America...
53 min
1896
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
1897
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Isla...
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
64 min
1898
Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min
1899
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
1900
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