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On Religion
August 8, 2022
On Online Churches
A Discussion with Tim Hutchings
Tim Hutchings
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Tim Hutchings is a sociologist of digital religion. His Ph.D. (Durham University, 2010) was an ethnographic study of five online Christian churches. Dr. Hutchings is interested in the relationship …
Christian Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Christianity about their new books.
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
August 8, 2022
Sonorous Desert
What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us
Kim Haines-Eitzen
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Mark Klobas
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God …
General History
August 5, 2022
The Last Witches of England
A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
John Callow
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Miranda Melcher
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and …
Jewish Studies
August 3, 2022
The Bible with and Without Jesus
How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
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Zalman Newfield
In The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (HarperOne, 2020), Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler take readers on a guided tour …
On Religion
August 1, 2022
On the Krampus Conundrum
A Discussion with Madison Tarleton
Madison Tarleton
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Gregory Soden
Madison Tarleton is a Ph.D. candidate and scholar of Medieval Judaism in Christian Europe, antijudaism and antisemitism. Madison is studying at the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology’s joint PhD …
Literary Studies
July 29, 2022
Bad Humor
Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England
Kimberly Anne Coles
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John Yargo
Kimberly Anne Coles is Professor of English at the University of Maryland; her first book, Religion, Reform and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England, was published with Cambridge University Press …
Biblical Studies
July 29, 2022
Eco Bible
An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus
Yonatan Neril and Leo Dee
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Ari Barbalat
What does the Bible say about ecology? As people face huge ecological challenges-including growing hurricanes, floods, forest fires, and plastic pollution-the groundbreaking Yonatan Neril and Leo Dee's Eco Bible (Interfaith Center for …
Religion
July 28, 2022
The Origin of Sin
Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity
David Konstan
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
Where did the idea of sin arise from? In The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity (Bloomsbury, 2022), David Konstan takes a close look at classical …
American Studies
July 27, 2022
Benjamin Franklin
The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Thomas S. Kidd
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Zalman Newfield
Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years …
On Religion
July 26, 2022
On Chrismukkah
A Discussion with Samira Mehta
Samira Mehta
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Samira Mehta a scholar of religion and the politics of the American Family and an assistant professor of Women and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of …
Religion
July 25, 2022
The Story of Religion in America
An Introduction
James P Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler
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Jackson Reinhardt
The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While …
Medieval History
July 22, 2022
Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571
Society, Spirituality, and Identities
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
Hosted by
Evan Zarkadas
Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus was a fascinating place of ethnic, cultural, and religious encounters. Following almost nine centuries of Byzantine rule, Cyprus was conquered by the Crusaders in 1191, becoming …
Architecture
July 22, 2022
American Unitarian Churches
Architecture of a Democratic Religion
Ann Marie Borys
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Bryan Toepfer
The Unitarian religious tradition was a product of the same eighteenth-century democratic ideals that fueled the American Revolution and informed the founding of the United States. Its liberal humanistic principles …
Catholic Studies
July 19, 2022
The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Between Grief and Denial
Philippe Denis
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Allison Isidore
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between …
On Religion
July 19, 2022
On Charismatic Christianity and the Life of Kathryn Kuhlman
A Discussion with Amy Artman
Amy Artman
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Amy Artman teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Her research interests are in Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity, focusing on women in American religions, such …
On Religion
July 15, 2022
On Charismatic Religions and the Vineyard Movement
A Discussion with Maren Freudenberg
Maren Freudenberg
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Maren Freudenberg is a research associate at the Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and the associate editor of the journal Entangled Religions. …
Environmental Studies
July 14, 2022
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
Evan Berry
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Brady McCartney
How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change? Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2022) is an edited collection that explores …
Religion
July 12, 2022
Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture
Travis W. Proctor
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (Oxford UP, 2022) analyze how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body …
Catholic Studies
July 11, 2022
Subversive Habits
Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Shannen Dee Williams
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Allison Isidore
In Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (Duke UP, 2022), Shannen Dee Williams, provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the …
Religion
July 8, 2022
Revising Eternity
27 Latter-Day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships
Holly Welker
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Deidre Tyler
Marriage's central role in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints distinguishes the faith while simultaneously reflecting widespread American beliefs. But what does Latter-day Saint marriage mean for men?  …
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