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Australian and New Zealand Studies April 20, 2021

Leaning into the Spirit

Ecumenical Perspectives on Discernment and Decision-making in the Church

Virginia Miller and David Moxon

Hosted by Bede Haines
Religions, indeed those of the same religion, getting along? Maybe. Dr Virginia Miller edits and contributes to an essay collection on how this thorny issue can be approached - and we've …

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Secularism April 20, 2021

Speak of the Devil

How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion

Joseph P. Laycock

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to …
History April 19, 2021

A New Christian Identity

Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture

Amy B. Voorhees

Hosted by Lane Davis
In A New Christian Identity: Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), Amy B. Voorhees contextualizes this American religious movement and argues that Christian Science …
Jewish Studies April 19, 2021

Beyond the Synagogue

Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

Rachel B. Gross

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York …
Indian Religions April 13, 2021

The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana

A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga

Ian Whicher

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Join Raj Balkaran as he discusses yoga philosophy with Ian Whicher. We begin with a discussion on how he began his journey towards yoga philosophy before probing his assertion that …
Christian Studies April 9, 2021

Glimpses of the New Creation

Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts

W. David O. Taylor and Jeremy Begbie

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Churches have long sought the arts as a vehicle to communicate divine transcendence and to form worshipers. In Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts (Eerdmans, 2019) …
History April 9, 2021

Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Mark A Waddell

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, Mark A. Waddell, Associate professor of History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in the Department of History at Michigan State University in beautiful East …
Christian Studies April 8, 2021

Singing the Congregation

How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community

Monique M. Ingalls

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
The choices that churches make about their musical style do more than simply change the sounds one hears in their gatherings, but actually form certain kinds of community. So Monique …
Islamic Studies April 2, 2021

Ambient Sufism

Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form

Richard C. Jankowsky

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Richard C. Jankowsky (an Associate Professor of music at Tufts University) is a …
Christian Studies March 30, 2021

Christian Citizens

Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

Elizabeth L. Jemison

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Elizabeth L. Jemison, who teaches American religious history at Clemson University, South Carolina, has written an outstanding new book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South (University …
Indian Religions March 30, 2021

Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy

A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge

Daniel Raveh

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) by Daniel Raveh introduces contemporary Indian philosophy as a unique philosophical genre through …
Religion March 29, 2021

Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions

A Discussion with Stefania Travagnin

André Laliberté and Stefania Travagnin

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The study of religion in China has a long history across a number of interrelated disciplines. In recent years, scholars have been reassessing past scholarship and synthesizing it in new …
Christian Studies March 29, 2021

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America

Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest

Crawford Gribben

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
In America's Pacific Northwest a group of conservative Protestants have been conducting a new experiment in cultural transformation. Dissatisfied with what they see as the clumsy political engagement and vapid literary …
History March 26, 2021

Visions of Deliverance

Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Mayte Green-Mercado

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we hear from Mayte Green-Mercado, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey to talk about Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in …
Islamic Studies March 26, 2021

Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt

From the Monarchy to the Republic

Mohammad Salama

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Egypt is often the focus of religious and political histories of early twentieth century. The striking hardening of nationalist and Islamic movements within Arab societies during this period is frequently …
Secularism March 25, 2021

Society without God, Second Edition

What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment

Phil Zuckerman

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
Phil Zuckerman's book, Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment (2nd ed.) (New York University Press, 2020), points out that religious conservatives around the …
History March 25, 2021

Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660

Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty

Eilish Gregory

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Eilish Gregory, Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty (Boydell Press, 2021) is the first book to examine thoroughly the ways in which Catholics adapted to political …
Christian Studies March 25, 2021

The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain

East Comes West

Brendan McNamara

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Brendan McNamara, who teaches religion at University College Cork, Ireland, has published an excellent new book on the expansion of the Bahá’í faith into western Europe. In the late nineteenth …
Christian Studies March 22, 2021

Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment

Madeline Pennington

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Histories of seventeenth-century Quakerism have far too often emphasized social and political factors as the agents of development and change. While the Quakers were not in a vacuum and persecution …
Christian Studies March 19, 2021

Physico-Theology

Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750

Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz have edited an outstanding volume that breaks important new ground in the history of early modern science and religion. As the contributors to this …