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Religion
Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
June 2, 2026
Spinoza, Atheist
In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza…
June 2, 2026
Assembling Religion
Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, believer in the “gospel of reincarn…
May 31, 2026
Faith, Family, and Flag
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the history of Branson, Missouri…
May 28, 2026
The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas That Changed the World (Oxford UP, 2025) is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by…
May 28, 2026
Prophecy and the Battle for Spiritual Authority, 1360–1400
The end of the fourteenth century was a time of upheaval and contested authority among the traditional institutions of medieval Europe. In response to…
May 25, 2026
Meanings of Antiquity
Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Harvard UP, 2023) is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, record…
May 25, 2026
Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian
In 362/363 the Roman emperor Julian composed a treatise titled Against the Galileans in which he set forth his reasons for abandoning Christianity and…
May 22, 2026
Former Synagogues of the United States
Throughout the United States there are buildings that had been home to Jewish houses of worship, schools, and other institutions. What has happened to…
May 21, 2026
From Erasmus to Maius
Codex Vaticanus is often regarded as a pillar of New Testament scholarship, ancient, authoritative, and decisive. In From Erasmus to Maius: The Histor…
May 20, 2026
Emotional Filipinos
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist …
May 14, 2026
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel (Oxford UP, 2026) is the first comprehensive study dedica…
May 14, 2026
South Asian Animal Divination
South Asian Animal Divination: A Critical Anthology (Brill, 2025) examines the history and practice of animal omen divination in South Asia, comparing…
May 13, 2026
Whispers in the Pews
Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America (NYU Press, 2026) reveals how mundane social interactions in an evangelical church s…
May 13, 2026
Unvaccinated Under God
Kira Ganga Kieffer is a scholar of American religions, history, culture, and politics with a PhD in Religious Studies from Boston University. She is…
May 12, 2026
Revisiting the God-fearer Thesis in the Development of Early Christianity
Revisiting the God-fearer Thesis in the Development of Early Christianity (T&T Clark, 2025) examines in depth the theory, evidence, and trail of schol…
May 11, 2026
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams
Samiha Rahman’s Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care (New York University Press, 2026) follows three ge…
May 10, 2026
The Noise Silence Makes
In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, s…
May 10, 2026
The Injustice of Noah's Curse
In Genesis 9, Noah plants a vineyard, and eventually becomes drunk and uncovered in his tent. Then we are told that Ham sees the nakedness of his fath…
May 8, 2026
Extraordinary, Mysterious, and Impossible Experiences
Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “imp…
May 7, 2026
Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria
Edith Szanto’s Twelver Shi'i Self-Flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab (Edinburgh UP, 2025) is a striking and deeply imme…