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Religion
Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
April 10, 2026
Faithful Transformations
Nurhaizatul Jamil’s Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore (U Illinois Press, 2025) is a complex and meticulous ethnogr…
April 9, 2026
Religion, Spirituality and Public Health
Religion, Spirituality and Public Health: Competing and Complementary Epistemes (British Academy, 2025) focuses on exploring the role of different 'wa…
April 8, 2026
The Gospel According to Josephus, Part 2
In this fifth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr…
April 5, 2026
The First Pastors
Most accounts of Christian leadership in the first two centuries focus on the diversity of leadership structures and the various cultural influences t…
April 4, 2026
Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond
Amir Saemi’s exciting book Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (Oxford UP, 2024) is a fascinating and deeply …
April 1, 2026
The Gospel According to Josephus, Part 1
In this fourth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr…
March 30, 2026
Monastic Desires
Derek Krueger Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge UP, 2026) The Byzantine Abbot Symeo…
March 29, 2026
Haggadah Shel Erev Rav
What does it mean to tell the Passover story as a truly diverse people? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with editor Rabbi Sarah Berman to d…
March 27, 2026
Worlds of Islam
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougal…
March 27, 2026
Making Pagans
Today’s guest, John Kuhn, is the author of Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania Press, …
March 25, 2026
The Philosophy of Hope
In this third episode of Season 5, I interview Dr. R.J. Snell, a visiting instructor at Princeton University, the director of academic programs at the…
March 25, 2026
Justifying Transgression
How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to …
March 23, 2026
Archival Irruptions
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial…
March 23, 2026
Borícua Muslims
Ken Chitwood's Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam (University of Texas Press, 2025), uses rich ethnographi…
March 22, 2026
The Vilna Gaon and the Making of Modern Judaism
The beginnings of contemporary Jewry are often associated with Jewish figures in Western Europe such as Moses Mendelssohn. But in his book, The Genius…
March 21, 2026
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha mal…
March 20, 2026
Gods and the State
What happens to the environment when the state enters previously self-governed villages in rural China? We explore this question in the Blang mountain…
March 19, 2026
Routes, Patterns, Ideologies
Hindu sacred geographies are shaped by interwoven webs of myth, ritual, and pilgrimage. Routes, Patterns, Ideologies: Navigating Sacred Sites in India…
March 18, 2026
The Bible Says So
The Bible is arguably the world’s most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day across social media and in homes, businesses, a…
March 15, 2026
The Fast
With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice—esse…