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Religion
Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
November 5, 2026
Vākyamālā
A multimedia collection dedicated to John D. Smith on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, edited by Wendy J. Phillips Rodríguez and Simon Brodbeck…
November 4, 2026
Mormon Barrio
The Mormon community is usually thought of as a homogenous, white-dominant faith. However, Latinos make up the second largest demographic group in the…
November 4, 2026
Meta-Theory
Today I sit down with Brendan Graham Dempsey, Director of Research at the Institute of Applied Metatheory, where he thinks about human meaning-making …
November 4, 2026
Christian Individualism
In Christian Individualism: The Maverick Biblical Workmanship of Otis Q. Sellers (Atmosphere Press, 2026), Anthony Flood traces Sellers's journey from…
November 4, 2026
Holocaust Distortion in Poland
Holocaust distortion in Poland involves reshaping or minimizing facts about the Holocaust, often emphasizing Polish victimhood while obscuring instanc…
November 4, 2026
The Phoenix Rises
Philippe Villeneuve has been chief architect of Notre Dame Cathedral since 2013. On the night of the shocking 2019 fire, he learned by phone that the …
November 2, 2026
The Invisibility Of Religion In Contemporary Art
In this episode of the Books for Better Understanding series from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson hosts Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins for a di…
November 2, 2026
Zion's Last Frontier
Zion’s Last Frontier: LDS Ranchers, Federal Regulators, and the Clash of the New West in Capitol Reef Country, Utah (U Arizona Press, 2026) is a histo…
November 2, 2026
I Am The Other
What happens when a devout imam and a secular Jewish former federal prosecutor decide to talk about the things that divide them rather than the things…
November 1, 2026
Mediating God
Mediating God: Muhammad Ghazali and the Politics of Divine Presence in 20th century Egypt (Oxford UP, 2025) is a fascinating and compelling intellectu…
November 1, 2026
Sacred Betrayal
When German occupiers rolled into Paris in June 1940, they arrived wary of the French Catholic Church. In a country where more than 80 percent of citi…
October 31, 2026
The Quest for Re-enchantment
What is magic, and why does it keep returning in new disguises? For a special Halloween episode, host Ryan Shinkel is joined by essayist and novelist …
October 29, 2026
In Pursuit of the Inconceivable - an Investigation of Metaphysics and Mysticism
In Pursuit of the Inconceivable: An Investigation of Metaphysics and Mysticism (Essentia Books, 2025) is a compelling exploration of fundamental quest…
October 27, 2026
Hidden Scrolls, Buried Bibles
From the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Zohar, this is the untold story behind our enduring fascination with lost and found religious texts …
October 25, 2026
Incense and Performance
At the time of the conquest of Mexico, the anonymous authors of the Anales de Tlatelolco (1560s) recorded the deaths of two Mexica ritual specialists.…
October 25, 2026
Palimpsests Past and Present
Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Maklī necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more t…
October 25, 2026
A Protestant Air
A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity (Cornell UP, 2026) focuses on the Protestant connection linking three …
October 25, 2026
Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia
What can shared sacred sites tell us about religious coexistence in South Asia? Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot joins Shreya Urvashi to discu…
October 24, 2026
Constructing Christendom
In Constructing Christendom: Conquest and Diocese Formation in Medieval Iberia (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026), Dr. Thomas W. Barton examines how church …
October 24, 2026
Selling the Word of God
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible (Bodleian, 2026) by Dr. Harry Spillane is a history of the English Bible as…