New Books in Religion
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2001
Bhikkhu Anālayo, "Rebirth in Early Buddhism and...
Bhikkhu Anālayo skillfully analyzes the early Buddhist doctrine of rebirth before discussing the debate around rebirth throughout Buddhist history...
40 min
2002
Bruce Van Orden, "We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: T...
If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...
78 min
2003
Joel Elliot Slotkin, "Sinister Aesthetics: The ...
Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?
31 min
2004
Jules Evans, "The Art of Losing Control: A Phil...
Evans sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful...
71 min
2005
Deborah E. Lipstadt, "Antisemitism: Here and No...
Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly...
51 min
2006
Linda K. Wertheimer, "Faith Ed: Teaching About ...
Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...
57 min
2007
Ira Helderman, "Prescribing the Dharma: Psychot...
Ira shows that psychotherapists approaches to Buddhist traditions are moulded by how they relate to what is and is not religion...
61 min
2008
Ira Helderman, "Prescribing the Dharma: Psychot...
Ira shows that psychotherapists approaches to Buddhist traditions are moulded by how they relate to what is and is not religion...
61 min
2009
Borayin Larios, "Embodying the Vedas: Tradition...
Larios probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the world’s oldest living tradition: the unbroken chain of transmission of Vedic texts composed over 3,000 years ago, originating circa 1750-1200 BCE...
64 min
2010
Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformat...
Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...
39 min
2011
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
2012
Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: T...
Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.
51 min
2013
Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict betwee...
Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...
44 min
2014
Claire Pamment, "Comic Performance in Pakistan:...
Claire Pamment’s book is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance...
52 min
2015
Jessica Hardin, "Faith and the Pursuit of Healt...
Hardin explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness...
81 min
2016
Democratic Faith and Social Change with Eddie G...
An interview with Eddie Glaude, Jr.
32 min
2017
Whitney G. Gamble, "Christ and the Law: Antinom...
The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...
33 min
2018
Meido Moore, "The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Pr...
In 2008 Meido Roshi received inka shomei ("mind seal"), designating him an 86th-generation Zen dharma heir and a 48th-generation holder of the lineage descended from Rinzai Gigen...
51 min
2019
Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...
49 min
2020
Michael Ruse, "The Problem of War: Darwinism, C...
What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?
55 min
2021
Jeffrey D. Long, "Perspectives on Reincarnation...
What happens after you die? The book brings together fascinating theological and religious studies perspectives on a controversial yet pervasive idea: reincarnation...
70 min
2022
Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of An...
One of the great archeological finds of the 20th century, the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts, dating from the 1st century CE, are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts ever discovered...
55 min
2023
Guy Axtell, "Problems of Religious Luck: Assess...
Our lives are shot through with contingency – where, when, and into what circumstances we are born is largely a matter of chance...
59 min
2024
Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a W...
The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...
58 min
2025
Martin Demant Frederiksen, "An Anthropology of ...
Frederiksen's book is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning."
40 min