New Books in Religion

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.

Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com

Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/

Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork

Religion & Spirituality
176
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakar...
73 min
177
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in...
52 min
178
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, "Remembering Sufferin...
62 min
179
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta...
25 min
180
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
181
Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering...
31 min
182
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Re...
96 min
183
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
184
Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" ...
Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.
60 min
185
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
186
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
187
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
188
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
189
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
190
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
191
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
192
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
193
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
194
Magdalena Maria Turek, "Buddhist Hermits in Eas...
75 min
195
Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Chris...
52 min
196
Beth M. Stovell, "Mapping Metaphorical Discours...
23 min
197
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: ...
38 min
198
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Pa...
47 min
199
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Rel...
48 min
200
Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and...
35 min