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Elyse Ambrose, "A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive" (T&T Clark, 2024)

April 11, 2024

A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics

Elyse Ambrose
Hosted by Gregory Soden

In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark, 2024), Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of blackqueerness as a…

Aizaiah G. Yong, "Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences" (Orbis, 2023)

March 11, 2024

Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences

Aizaiah G. Yong
Hosted by Gregory Soden

In Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences (Orbis, 2023), Aizaiah G. Yong critically considers how the lives and …

Danielle Dulsky, "Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book" (New World Library, 2023)

February 4, 2024

Bones & Honey

Danielle Dulsky
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book (New World Library, 2023)l is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan po…

Darnise C. Martin, "Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church" (NYU Press, 2005)

January 11, 2024

Beyond Christianity

Darnise C. Martin
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Darnise C. Martin's Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church (NYU Press, 2005) draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Sc…

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, "The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice" (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)

October 8, 2023

The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein's book The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice (U Notre Dame Press, 2023) explore…

Sara Moslener, "Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence" (Oxford UP, 2015)

July 15, 2023

Virgin Nation

Sara Moslener
Hosted by Gregory Soden

First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received cons…

Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)

June 18, 2023

Queer Judaism

Orit Avishai
Hosted by Gregory Soden
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Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold…

Stephen Prothero, "God, the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time" (HarperOne, 2023)

March 14, 2023

God, the Bestseller

Stephen Prothero
Hosted by Gregory Soden

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century Ameri…

Jonathan Homrighausen, "Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: The Song of Songs, and The Saint Johns Bible" (Liturgical Press, 2022)

February 25, 2023

Planting Letters and Weaving Lines

Jonathan Homrighausen
Hosted by Gregory Soden

The illuminations of The Saint John’s Bible have delighted many with their imaginative takes on Scripture. But many struggle to appreciate the calligr…

David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

December 13, 2022

The Varieties of Atheism

David Newheiser
Hosted by Gregory Soden

David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of …

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

December 12, 2022

Metamodernism

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Hosted by Gregory Soden

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous cat…

Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)

November 21, 2022

The Magi

Eric Vanden Eykel
Hosted by Gregory Soden

George Tyrrell insisted that the quest for the historical Jesus was no more than scholars staring into a well to see their own reflections staring bac…

On Religion, Public Health, and Media

November 17, 2022

On Religion, Public Health, and the Media

Amanda Furiasse
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Amanda Furiasse received her PhD in Religion and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Florida State University in 2018. Her research unfolds at…

On the Rise of the Muslim Sitcom

November 16, 2022

On the Rise of the Muslim Sitcom

Kristian Petersen
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Interpret…

On Migrational Religion and the Latinx Diaspora

November 15, 2022

On Migrational Religion and the Latinx Diaspora

João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Dr. João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh discuss Brazil and the book Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora, out now …

On Mexican American Religions

November 14, 2022

On Mexican American Religions

Brett Hendrickson and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh is in conversation with Dr. Brett Hendrickson on the book Mexican American Religions: An Introduction (Religion in America), …

On Meatpacking, Migration, and Faith

November 11, 2022

On Meatpacking, Migration, and Faith

Kristy Nabhan-Warren and Arlene Sanchez Walsh
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies and a professor in the Departments of Religious Studies and G…

Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)

November 10, 2022

Preparing for War

Bradley Onishi
Hosted by Gregory Soden

The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical sub…

On the History of Muslim Books in Catholic Libraries

November 9, 2022

On the History of Muslim Books in Catholic Libraries

N. A. Mansour
Hosted by Gregory Soden

N.A. Mansour is a historian and a PhD candidate at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies, where she is writing a dissertation on t…

On Religious Pluralism in South Africa

November 8, 2022

On Religious Pluralism in South Africa

Lee Scharnick-Udemans
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Lee-Shae Salma Scharnick-Udemans is the Senior Researcher in the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western …