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Religion
Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
June 12, 2026
God and the First Families
What if the book of Genesis is not only the story of humanity’s first family, but also the story of God learning how to parent? In this episode, Rabbi…
June 11, 2026
Surrender to God Across Languages
Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India (Oxford UP, 2026) explores the role of languages in the intell…
June 10, 2026
Islam in English
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Oludamini Oguannaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Th…
June 8, 2026
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
This episode features a conversation with Prachi and Ram, organizers with Savera, a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste coalition of Indian Americans …
June 7, 2026
The Wounded Church
Dr. Annie Selak (she/her/hers) is an expert in feminist ecclesiology. She studies wounds in the church, or moments where the church fails to live into…
June 6, 2026
Beyond Brutality
Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah (Brandeis University Press, 2025) draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to exami…
June 6, 2026
Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969
Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969 (UCL Press, 2026) is a global history project that examines the diffusi…
June 5, 2026
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri L - the Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, Ca. 1000-1215
Dr. Shirley's monograph, Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070-1215, is now availabl…
June 3, 2026
S5E9 A Divine Comedy
Here in Episode 9 of Season 5, I interview Mr. Rob Long. A longtime Hollywood professional, he was a writer and producer for the classic sitcom Cheers…
June 2, 2026
Assembling Religion
Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, believer in the "gospel of reincarnation,…
June 2, 2026
Spinoza, Atheist
In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was…
May 31, 2026
Faith, Family, and Flag
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the history of Branson, Missouri…
May 28, 2026
The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by…
May 28, 2026
Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400
The end of the fourteenth century was a time of upheaval and contested authority among the traditional institutions of medieval Europe. In response to…
May 25, 2026
Meanings of Antiquity
Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Harvard UP, 2023) is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, record…
May 25, 2026
Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian
In 362/363 the Roman emperor Julian composed a treatise titled Against the Galileans in which he set forth his reasons for abandoning Christianity and…
May 22, 2026
Former Synagogues of the United States
Throughout the United States there are buildings that had been home to Jewish houses of worship, schools, and other institutions. What has happened to…
May 21, 2026
From Erasmus to Maius
Codex Vaticanus is often regarded as a pillar of New Testament scholarship, ancient, authoritative, and decisive. In From Erasmus to Maius: The Histor…
May 14, 2026
South Asian Animal Divination
South Asian Animal Divination: A Critical Anthology (Brill, 2025) examines the history and practice of animal omen divination in South Asia, comparing…
May 14, 2026
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel (Oxford UP, 2026) is the first comprehensive study dedica…