New Books in Religion

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  • Patrick McCartney, "Authenticity, Legitimacy and the Transglobal Yoga Industry: A Sociological Analysis of Shanti Mandir" (Routledge, 2025)
    Jun 5, 2025 – 34:58
  • Simon Stjernholm, "Sensing Islam: Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)
    Jun 3, 2025 – 45:23
  • Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025)
    Jun 3, 2025 – 36:24
  • Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 53:49
  • Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 01:05:20
  • Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 40:54
  • Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:23:46
  • Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:11:50
  • Jessica X. Zu, "Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2025)
    May 29, 2025 – 01:28:02
  • Krista N. Dalton, "How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    May 28, 2025 – 55:14
  • Stephen Okey, "A Theology of Conversation: An Introduction to David Tracy" (Liturgical Press, 2018)
    May 25, 2025 – 01:23:50
  • David G. Bonagura Jr, "100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today" (Sophia Institute, 2025)
    May 24, 2025 – 01:07:41
  • Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too
    May 24, 2025 – 01:28:47
  • Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi: "The Kabbalistic Tree of Life" and "The Anointed"
    May 23, 2025 – 24:22
  • Korshi Dosoo and Markéta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
    May 23, 2025 – 01:28:50
  • Ryan Klejment-Lavin, "Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective" (American Society of Missiology, 2024)
    May 23, 2025 – 46:02
  • Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
    May 22, 2025 – 41:43
  • Abdul Wohab, "Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence" (Routledge, 2025)
    May 22, 2025 – 38:42
  • Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    May 21, 2025 – 01:21:01
  • Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024)
    May 20, 2025 – 01:04:04
  • Marc Katz, "Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
    May 19, 2025 – 50:56
  • Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 18, 2025 – 01:01:06
  • David Kraemer, "Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 17, 2025 – 01:00:52
  • Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
    May 16, 2025 – 44:53
  • Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 15, 2025 – 45:09
  • Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
    May 14, 2025 – 49:51
  • Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
    May 12, 2025 – 39:53
  • Catherine Hartmann, "Making the Invisible Real: Practice of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 10, 2025 – 01:07:20
  • Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
    May 9, 2025 – 39:40
  • Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    May 8, 2025 – 57:51
  • Art and Its Holy Object (with Steve Auth)
    May 8, 2025 – 01:10:32
  • Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)
    May 7, 2025 – 51:20
  • Astrid von Schlachta, "Anabaptists: From the Reformation to the 21st Century" (Pandora Press, 2024)
    May 6, 2025 – 01:05:51
  • Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    May 3, 2025 – 01:11:54
  • Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)
    May 2, 2025 – 54:19
  • Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Metaphysics As Therapy: List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas" (Springer, 2025)
    May 1, 2025 – 59:18
  • Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
    Apr 30, 2025 – 01:11:57
  • Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024)
    Apr 26, 2025 – 01:43:47
  • Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024)
    Apr 25, 2025 – 01:32:52
  • Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    Apr 24, 2025 – 01:13:56
  • Jerome Gellman, "The Problem of God in Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 31:44
  • Farouk Yahya, "Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts" (Brill, 2015)
    Apr 20, 2025 – 32:26
  • Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:26:58
  • Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
    Apr 18, 2025 – 41:51
  • Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
    Apr 13, 2025 – 01:07:08
  • Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia
    Apr 12, 2025 – 55:23
  • Haggadah Roundup
    Apr 11, 2025 – 01:48:38
  • Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)
    Apr 10, 2025 – 56:21
  • Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias
    Apr 9, 2025 – 01:15:52
  • Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 31:20
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  • AGbrooklyn
    Erudite and in depth…. But where are the women?
    Love having these deep dives into religious history—but so many of these scholars are men. Maybe it’s a problem with academia or cafe mic publishing, and this podcast is just reflecting it. But there’s either a systematic problem, or a systemic one.
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