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September 17, 2024
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán
A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in Y…
September 11, 2024
Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250
The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of I…
September 9, 2024
Trafficking with Demons
Martha Rampton's book Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 (Cornell University Press, 2021) explores how mag…
September 8, 2024
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic jazz performers of all time. Her voice is certainly unmistakable but for many her religious sensibilities may…
September 6, 2024
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…
August 30, 2024
The Teutonic Knights
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Cor…
August 29, 2024
Localism
Dale Ahlquist is the founder the of the Society of G. K. Chesterton and Chesterton Schools, of which there are currently 70 and number is rising. He i…
August 29, 2024
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chi…
August 15, 2024
A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
What would you do in the place of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter in 1943? Mumble your loyalty oath to Hitler like everyone else—or refuse and pay …
August 13, 2024
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers th…
August 12, 2024
The Medieval Scriptorium
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaev…
August 4, 2024
Going to Church in Medieval England
For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University Pre…
July 28, 2024
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in th…
July 25, 2024
Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar
This autobiography--Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story (Bloomsbury, 2024)--traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual jo…
July 22, 2024
The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations (Cambridge UP, 2023) traces the beginning of Late Antiq…
July 19, 2024
For Christ and Country
Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young C…
July 18, 2024
What Would Jesus Say about Diversity and Inclusion? (with Pete Imperial)
Pete Imperial has been principal of St. Mary’s Catholic High School in Berkeley, California, a Lasallian Catholic School of 160 years and going strong…
July 11, 2024
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jes…
July 5, 2024
Surgery and Salvation
In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien foregro…
July 4, 2024
Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The book …