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Religion
Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
May 6, 2026
The Gospel of John
The contentious life and times of the most widely cited book of the New Testament. Written some two thousand years ago, the Gospel of John is the only…
May 6, 2026
Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission
In my conversation with Rev. Dr Carmen Lansdowne about her book Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission (CMU Press, 2025), …
May 5, 2026
Born Again Queer
Evangelicals claim that their opposition to homosexuality is an inherent feature of their faith, rooted in their unchanging beliefs about the Bible. M…
May 4, 2026
The Religion Department
The Religion Department is an online learning platform dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion, created by the team behind Religion …
May 4, 2026
Manufacturing Religion:
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that…
May 3, 2026
Rambam Mishne Torah, Volume 1
The Rambam, Maimonides, was one of the intellectual giants of world history. His greatest and most ambitious work was the Mishne Torah. And now the St…
April 30, 2026
God Bless the Pill
Most people today understand contraception as central to women’s liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it wou…
April 26, 2026
Where Are You?
Where are you—spiritually, emotionally, and morally? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Rabbi Josh Franklin to discuss his book Where Are…
April 23, 2026
Beyond Wellness
Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist and professor of religion at Northeastern University, as well as a certified intenSati and Kripalu yoga instructor…
April 23, 2026
The MANTRAMS Project
Carola Lorea discusses the MANTRAMS project, a major ERC Synergy Grant initiative jointly hosted by Oxford, Vienna, and Tübingen dedicated to producin…
April 21, 2026
Free Enough to Grow
In Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016 (Springer Nature, 2026), James Bultema identifies and investigates four central fac…
April 18, 2026
Laughter and Leadership
We laugh without thinking — but what if laughter is one of the most revealing human acts? In this episode of The Van Leer Institute Series On Ideas,…
April 16, 2026
Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism
In his debut work, Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulami (I.B. Tauris, 2024), Jason Welle sheds a new light on a…
April 16, 2026
Scholar, Serpent, Yogin, and Devotee
Scholar, Serpent, Yogin, and Devotee: The Many Faces of Patañjali in Indian Traditions (Brill, 2025) illuminates the many faces of Patañjali in Indian…
April 13, 2026
An Enchanted World
In Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary …
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 …