New Books in Religion
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2051
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
2052
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
2053
Martin Demant Frederiksen, "An Anthropology of ...
Frederiksen's book is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning."
40 min
2054
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
2055
Matthew Bingham, "Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Id...
Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...
35 min
2056
Alexandre Kojève, "Atheism," trans by Jeff Love...
Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority...
75 min
2057
Adriaan C. Neele, "Before Jonathan Edwards: Sou...
Jonathan Edwards is by now widely recognised as America’s most important early philosopher and theologian...
35 min
2058
Religious and Political Identities with Michele...
An interview with Michele F. Margolis
30 min
2059
Gil Ben-Herut, "Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of D...
Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...
68 min
2060
Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Fa...
American Sutra is also an inspiring account of how Japanese-Americans embodied faith, ingenuity and sacrifice in the face of great adversity...
87 min
2061
Samuel Hayim Brody, "Martin Buber's Theopolitic...
Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activism...
37 min
2062
Justine Howe, “Suburban Islam” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Howe examines the social and spiritual contexts of Muslims living outside of Chicago...
65 min
2063
R. B. Jamieson, "Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offe...
When and where did Jesus offer himself to God?
47 min
2064
Caleb Simmons, "Nine Nights of the Goddess: The...
This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odish...
39 min
2065
Thomas Patton, "The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Pr...
Thomas Patton examines the weizzā, a figure in Burmese Buddhism who is possessed with extraordinary supernatural powers, usually gained through some sort of esoteric practice...
67 min
2066
Fred S. Naiden, "Soldier, Priest, and God: A Li...
Alexander’s religious practices were a vital part of his legitimacy as a ruler of his people, and were interwoven into his daily activities...
46 min
2067
Kevin Ingram, "Converso Non-Conformism in Early...
Ingram sets out to account for the experience of those Spanish Jews, perhaps one-third of the total Spanish Jewish population, who converted to Catholicism after the Reconquista...
32 min
2068
Richard Gombrich, "Buddhism and Pali" (Mud Pie ...
Far more than just an introductory book, Richard argues not only that the Pali Canon records the words of the Buddha, but that the Buddha himself is responsible for the Pali language...
68 min
2069
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machin...
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos...
39 min
2070
B.R. Ambedkar, "Annihilation of Caste: The Anno...
This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...
67 min
2071
Andrew R. Holmes, "The Irish Presbyterian Mind:...
Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...
34 min
2072
Zeb Tortorici, "Sins Against Nature: Sex and Ar...
Men and women often engaged in ‘unnatural’ sexual acts revealed the relations of power in colonial society,...
59 min
2073
Mani Rao, "Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Vi...
What role does mantra play in the lives of Hindu practitioners?
61 min
2074
John Torpey, "The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Mate...
29 min
2075
Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deo...
Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...
52 min