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Irish Studies
June 21, 2022
Representing Magic in Modern Ireland
Belief, History, Culture
Andrew Sneddon
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Aidan Beatty
Andrew Sneddon is a Lecturer in International History at Ulster University. His research explores Irish witchcraft, magic and the supernatural in a comparative framework from the medieval to the modern …
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Catholic Studies
June 20, 2022
Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed
Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice
Paul T. Murray
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Allison Isidore
Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity as the post-war economy exploded. While Americans pondered affluence, U.S. Franciscans focused on the forgotten members of U.S. society, those …
Critical Theory
June 16, 2022
Science and Religion
A Very Short Introduction. Second Edition
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro
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Morteza Hajizadeh
Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how …
Early Modern History
June 10, 2022
Storied Places
Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France
Virginia Reinburg
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Elspeth Currie
Today I talked to Virginia Reinburg about her book Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France (Cambridge UP, 2019). Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth …
Christian Studies
June 9, 2022
Spiritual Direction from Dante
Yearning for Paradise
Paul Pearson
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Michael Morales
Many people search for heavenly bliss on earth, allured by all the world has to offer. In Paradiso, the third volume of his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, Dante corrects our …
Latino Studies
June 3, 2022
Brown Church
Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
Robert Chao Romero
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David-James Gonzales
For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American …
Genocide Studies
June 1, 2022
The Memory of Goodness
Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies
John K. Roth and Carol Rittner
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Kelly McFall
Today I talked to Carol Rittner and John K. Roth about their edited volume The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and her contributions to Holocaust Studies (National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education …
Early Modern History
May 26, 2022
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
A New History
James Clark
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Jonathan Megerian
In a mere four years, England’s monastic tradition—one of the richest in all of Europe—came to an end. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, as it’s come to be known, stands …
Jewish Studies
May 20, 2022
Three Philosophies of Life
Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs
Peter Kreeft
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Phil Cohen
"I've been a philosopher for all my adult life and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs." This …
Middle Eastern Studies
May 13, 2022
A Liminal Church
Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956
Maria Chiara Rioli
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Roberto Mazza
The history of the Palestine War does not only concern military history. It also involves social, humanitarian and religious history, as in the case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of …
Catholic Studies
May 10, 2022
Millennial Missionaries
How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool
Katherine Dugan
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Allison Isidore
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the …
Catholic Studies
May 9, 2022
Catholics on the Barricades
Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956
Piotr H. Kosicki
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Brenna Moore
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life--not with guns, but French philosophy. Piotr H. Kosicki's book Catholics on …
Latin American Studies
May 5, 2022
The Religion of Life
Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile
Sarah Walsh
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Claudia Monterroza Rivera
The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism and eugenics in early twentieth-century Chile. Specifically, it demonstrates …
Eastern European Studies
May 4, 2022
Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh
Body, Belief, and Human Identity
Stanley Bill
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Piotr Kosicki
In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a profoundly original, fine-grained, and rich interpretation of the …
On Religion
May 2, 2022
On Mary Magdalene in the Reformation
A Discussion with Margaret Arnold
Margaret Arnold
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Gregory Soden
Margaret Arnold is the Associate Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts. She received her PhD in Religious and Theological Studies from Boston University. Her new book, The Magdalene …
Latino Studies
April 25, 2022
Borderlands Curanderos
The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
Jennifer Koshatka Seman
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Jonathan Cortez
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into these …
French Studies
April 25, 2022
The Spirit of French Capitalism
Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment
Charly Coleman
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Roxanne Panchasi
Charly Coleman's latest book, The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment (Stanford University Press, 2021) is at once a history of ideas, the economy, religion, and material …
Catholic Studies
April 22, 2022
Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors
Religion and the History of the CIA
Michael Graziano
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Allison Isidore
Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s …
Critical Theory
April 12, 2022
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
Retracing the Origins of Conflict
James C. Ungureanu
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Morteza Hajizadeh
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William …
Irish Studies
April 8, 2022
Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93
Patrick J. McDonagh
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Averill Earls
Ireland’s 2015 Marriage Equality referendum is often framed as an incredible achievement just twenty years after sex between men was decriminalized (1993). But starting the story of gay and lesbian …
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