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On Religion May 13, 2022

Awkward Rituals

Sensations of Governance in Protestant America

Dana W. Logan

Hosted by Gregory Soden
In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed …

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Middle Eastern Studies May 13, 2022

A Liminal Church

Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956

Maria Chiara Rioli

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …
On Religion May 4, 2022

On Christianity and American Political Culture

A Discussion with Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Matthew Bowman received his PhD. in history from Georgetown University. He is associate professor of history at Henderson State University, where he teaches courses in American history since the Civil …
Eastern European Studies May 4, 2022

Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh

Body, Belief, and Human Identity

Stanley Bill

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …
African Studies April 28, 2022

Chosen Peoples

Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan

Christopher Tounsel

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah …
World Christianity April 28, 2022

The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South

Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism

João B. Chaves

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin …
Biblical Studies April 27, 2022

Nightmares with the Bible

The Good Book and Cinematic Demons

Steve A. Wiggins

Hosted by David Kunsman
Demons! Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons (2021) published by Fortress Academic views demons through two lenses: that of western religion and that of cinema. Sketching out …
French Studies April 25, 2022

The Spirit of French Capitalism

Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment

Charly Coleman

Hosted by 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 …
Latino Studies April 25, 2022

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Hosted by 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 …
Intellectual History April 25, 2022

In God’s Image

The Making of the Modern World

Tomer Persico

Hosted by Yakir Englander
In God’s Image: The Making of the Modern World (Yediot Aharonot, 2021) examines the central role that the biblical idea of the “image of God” has played in the development of …
Catholic Studies April 22, 2022

Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors

Religion and the History of the CIA

Michael Graziano

Hosted by 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 …
On Religion April 22, 2022

On Rock'n'Roll, aka "The Devil's Music"

A Discussion with Randall J. Stephens

Randall J. Stephens

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Randall J. Stephens is an Associate Professor of British and American Studies at the University of Oslo. He previously taught at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne) and Eastern Nazarene College …
Christian Studies April 15, 2022

Praying with Our Feet

Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets

Lindsey Krinks

Hosted by Meg Gambino
Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets (Brazos Press, 2021), written by Lindsey Krinks was published by Baker Publishing Group in 2021. In this personal, and …
On Religion April 15, 2022

On Sanctuary Churches and the Role of Christianity

A Discussion with Reverend Sarah Klaassen

Sarah Klaassen

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sarah Klaassen is the pastor of Rock Bridge Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri. In September 2017, her church congregation voted to become a sanctuary church and seeks to protect those …
On Religion April 13, 2022

On Belief in God: Good, Bad, or Irrelevant?

A Discussion with Preston Jones

Preston Jones

Hosted by Gregory Soden
This episode is a discussion with Dr. Preston Jones about the book Is Belief in God-- Good, Bad, or Irrelevant: A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism …
Critical Theory April 12, 2022

Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition

Retracing the Origins of Conflict

James C. Ungureanu

Hosted by 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 …