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Christian Studies May 27, 2023

A Revolutionary Faith

Liberation Theology Between Public Religion and Public Reason

Raúl E. Zegarra Medina

Hosted by Adrian Guiu
Religious commitments can be a powerful engine for progressive social change. In A Revolutionary Faith: Liberation Theology Between Public Religion and Public Reason (Stanford UP, 2023), Raúl E. Zegarra examines the …

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Japanese Studies May 16, 2023

Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan

Garrett L. Washington

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Garrett Washington’s Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan (Hawai’i 2022) brings a fresh perspective to the question of Protestant Christianity’s outsized influence in modernizing Japan from almost the …
South Asian Studies May 14, 2023

Choral Voices

Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality

Sebanti Chatterjee

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Sebanti Chatterjee's book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV …
Indian Religions May 4, 2023

Saint Joseph in South India

Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi

Francis Xavier Clooney

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi was an Italian Jesuit who worked in South India from 1710 to 1747. A brilliant scholar of Tamil, his works include hymns, instructions for catechists, and a …
World Christianity May 1, 2023

South Asia's Christians

Between Hindu and Muslim

Chandra Mallampalli

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the …
Latin American Studies April 29, 2023

Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983)

Faith and Revolution

Pablo Bradbury

Hosted by Roland Clark
How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how did it respond to state terrorism during the Dirty War? How did liberation theology develop …
Catholic Studies April 29, 2023

Mediating Catholicism

Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries

Eric Hoenes del Pinal, Marc Roscoe Loustau, and Kristin Norget

Hosted by Lauren Griffin
In Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries (Bloomsbury, 2022), the authors and the three editors (Eric Hones del Pinal, Marc Rosco Loustau and Kristin Norget) explore how …
World Christianity March 5, 2023

A Spirit of Revitalization

Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya

Kyama M. Mugambi

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by historic missionary …
Religion February 28, 2023

Beyond Belief

How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World

Elle Hardy

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? This is the religion of …
World Christianity February 28, 2023

How to Study Global Christianity

A Short Guide for Students

Jason Bruner

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Jason Bruner's How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) provides students with an accessible–yet critically oriented–introduction to the foundational methods and themes in Global …
World Christianity January 29, 2023

The Politics of Persecution

Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire

Mitri Raheb

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurgence in the last few years …
Almost Good Catholics January 24, 2023

Faithful Frontiers

A Turkish Scholar Describes How She Became a Catholic Apologist

Derya Little

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Derya Little has been a Muslim, an atheist, and a Protestant; today she is a Catholic writer and apologist. She tells the story of her conversion, talks about faith, family …
Almost Good Catholics January 23, 2023

Catholic in Karachi

Living as a Christian in an Islamic Country

Ayyaz Gulzar

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Ayyaz Gulzar, journalist and Catholic youth leader in Pakistan, describes the challenges and persecutions the Church faces in the Islamic Republic, which includes the county’s blasphemy laws. He also talks …
Anthropology January 3, 2023

Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life

Joel Robbins

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made …
American West January 3, 2023

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has always been globally situated, argues Montana State history professor Amanda Hendrix-Komoto in Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the …
Almost Good Catholics December 28, 2022

Quo Vademus?

The Pilgrim Church on the Road of Synodality

Nathalie Becquart

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
For two years Sr Nathalie Becquart has been in charge of the Church’s Synod on Synodality, coordinating the responses of millions of Catholics from 112 out of 114 Episcopal Conferences …
World Christianity December 25, 2022

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya

Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935

Emma Wild-Wood

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 (James Currey, 2020) is a vivid portrayal of Kivebulaya's life that interrogates the role of indigenous …
Christian Studies December 24, 2022

The Need for Creeds Today

Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age

J. V. Fesko

Hosted by Justin McGeary
The Need for Creeds Today: Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age (Baker Academic, 2020) is an accessible invitation to the historic creeds and confessions makes a biblical and historical case for …
Religion December 24, 2022

Indian Christmas

Essays, Memories, Hymns

Jerry PInto and Madhulika Liddle

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas—the night that …
Religion December 20, 2022

Why Study Religion?

Richard Brian Miller

Hosted by David Gottlieb
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that …