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June 30, 2022
Subversive Habits
Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Shannen Dee Williams
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Deidre Tyler
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 …
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Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
National Security
June 30, 2022
Home, Land, Security
Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
Carla Power
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Miranda Melcher
In the Pulitzer Prize finalist book Home, Land, Security: Deradicalisation and the Journey Back from Extremism (One World, 2021), Carla Power explores: what are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla …
General History
June 30, 2022
Open Hearts, Closed Doors
Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism
Nicholas T. Pruitt
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Lane Davis
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism (NYU Press, 2021) uncovers the largely overlooked role that liberal Protestants played in fostering cultural diversity in America …
Religion
June 29, 2022
Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously
Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion
Teemu Taira
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
Teemu Taira's book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill, 2022) demonstrates through methodological reflections and carefully chosen case studies a new way to conduct the study …
Indian Religions
June 29, 2022
Krishnamacharya on Kundalini
The Origins and Coherence of His Position
Simon Atkinson
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Raj Balkaran
Krishnamacharya on Kundalini: The Origins and Coherence of His Position (Equinox Publishing, 2022) explores a distinctive teaching of 'the father of modern yoga', T. Krishnamacharya. Whereas most yoga traditions teach …
On Religion
June 24, 2022
On Taoism, Martial Arts, and Mad Monk Manifesto
A Discussion with Monk Yun Rou
Monk Yun Rou
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Gregory Soden
Monk Yun Rou was ordained in China as a Taoist monk in 2012. His writings and teachings propagate Taoist ideas and focus on environmental conservation, and political and social justice …
Middle Eastern Studies
June 23, 2022
The Fate of Abraham
Why the West is Wrong about Islam
Peter Oborne
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James M. Dorsey
Peter Oborne’s The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam (Simon and Schuster 2022) is as much a history of US, British, and French attitudes towards Islam …
Indian Religions
June 23, 2022
The Transformation of Tamil Religion
Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood
Srilata Raman
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Raj Balkaran
Srilata Raman's book The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood (Routledge, 2022) analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th …
On Religion
June 23, 2022
On Plural Marriage
A Discussion with Philippa J. Meek
Philippa J. Meek
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Gregory Soden
Philippa J. Meek is a doctoral fellow at the University of Exeter. Meek researches public perceptions versus the realities of plural marriage within Fundamentalist Mormon communities. This episode gives a …
South Asian Studies
June 22, 2022
Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India
The Life and Landscapes of Dreams
Michael Heneise
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
The Nagas of Northeast India gives great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted …
On Religion
June 22, 2022
On the Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
A Discussion with Duane Bidwell
Duane Bidwell
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Duane Bidwell works to reduce suffering and promote abundant life in all of his teaching, writing, and research. Experiences as chaplain, pastor, spiritual director, pastoral counselor, HIV/AIDS professional, and …
Irish Studies
June 21, 2022
Representing Magic in Modern Ireland
Belief, History, Culture
Andrew Sneddon
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Aidan Beatty
Andrew Sneddon is a Lecturer in International History at Ulster University. His research explores Irish witchcraft, magic and the supernatural in a comparative framework from the medieval to the modern …
On Religion
June 21, 2022
On the New Age and Gnosticism
A Discussion with Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz
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Gregory Soden
Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, a lecturer-in-residence at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including …
On Religion
June 21, 2022
The Other Side of Nothing
The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being
Brad Warner
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Gregory Soden
In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality -- the realization that everything in the universe forms a …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
June 20, 2022
Professor of Apocalypse
The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
Jerry Z. Muller
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Renee Garfinkel
Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished …
Nordic Asia Podcast
June 20, 2022
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia
Worlds Ever More Enchanted
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson
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Terese Gagnon
What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia? How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession cults in the 21st century and what has led to …
World Christianity
June 20, 2022
Telugu Christians
A History
James Elisha Taneti
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Byung Ho Choi
Telugu Christians: A History (Fortress Press, 2022) narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Pondicherry in southern India. A …
Performing Arts
June 20, 2022
The Secret Life of Theater
On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation
Brian Kulick
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Andy Boyd
Unlike many books that examine the how of making theater, Brian Kulick's The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation (Routledge, 2019) examines the why. Using Jorge …
Critical Theory
June 16, 2022
Science and Religion
A Very Short Introduction. Second Edition
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro
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Morteza Hajizadeh
Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how …
Indian Religions
June 16, 2022
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism
Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality
Karen O'Brien-Kop
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Raj Balkaran
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism (Bloomsbury, 2021) revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop also develops an alternative …
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