Recent Episodes
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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
Recent Reviews
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AGbrooklynErudite 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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