New Books in Religion
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2026
Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Ren...
One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...
34 min
2027
Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and The King in Indi...
Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?
43 min
2028
Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
2029
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, "Islam in Pakistan: A His...
Zaman's book is is a landmark publication in the fields of Religious Studies, modern Islam, South Asian Islam...
101 min
2030
Anne Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.
66 min
2031
Tricia Bruce, "Parish and Place: Making Room fo...
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?
38 min
2032
Patrick S. McKay, "Healing the Breach: Mormonis...
58 min
2033
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Clas...
Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?
51 min
2034
Chip Colwell, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spir...
Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...
64 min
2035
Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of...
Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...
32 min
2036
David V. Mason, "The Performative Ground of Rel...
To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?
51 min
2037
Michael R. Cohen, "Cotton Capitalists: American...
Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...
44 min
2038
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
2039
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...
51 min
2040
Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in...
What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths?
32 min
2041
Thomas A. Wayment, "The New Testament: A Transl...
Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament...
70 min
2042
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, “Muslim Cool: Race, Religi...
Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...
65 min
2043
Andrea Miller, "The Day The Buddha Woke Up" (W...
I spoke with Andrea on the heels of her trip to India to attend the International Buddhist Conclave...
48 min
2044
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, “Stereotyping R...
Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...
42 min
2045
Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth...
Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...
56 min
2046
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
2047
Ward Keeler, "The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculi...
Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma...
48 min
2048
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
2049
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
2050
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