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American Studies
June 17, 2019
Church in the Wild
Evangelicals in Antebellum America
Brett Grainger
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
We often credit the Transcendentalists with introducing a revolutionary new appreciation for nature into American spirituality when they claimed that God could be found in the forests, mountains, and fields …
African American Studies
August 17, 2018
New World A-Coming
Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Judith Weisenfeld
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
A wave of religious leaders in black communities in the early twentieth-century insisted that so-called Negroes were, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or a raceless children of God. In …
African American Studies
May 16, 2018
Christian Slavery
Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Katharine Gerbner
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In her recent book, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in …
European Studies
March 7, 2018
Catholic Modern
The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church
James Chappel
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against religious freedom and the secular state. By the 1960s, that position was reversed and Catholics began advocating for particularly Catholic forms of …
World Affairs
October 24, 2017
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Anthropological Perspectives
Daromir Rudnyckyj and Filippo Osella, eds.
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice. In the wake …
African American Studies
May 19, 2017
Blackpentecostal Breath
The Aesthetics of Possibility
Ashon T. Crawley
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) is innovative and lyrical, challenging and beautiful. Ashon Crawley brings together black studies, queer theory, theology, and continental philosophy to …
Eastern European Studies
February 1, 2017
Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain
Piotr Kosicki
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Many historians have documented the Second Vatican Council yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the Catholics who found themselves living behind an iron curtain at the end of …
Architecture
December 10, 2016
The Suburban Church
Modernism and Community in Postwar America
Gretchen Buggeln
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
After World War II, America's religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. Gretchen Buggeln's latest monograph, The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar …
History
October 14, 2016
History and Presence
Robert Orsi
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Beginning with the Catholic doctrine of the literal, embodied presence of Christ, scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was …
Film
April 30, 2016
Sensational Movies
Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Birgit Meyer
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Anthropologist Birgit Meyer's most recent book, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015), explores the dynamic process of popular video filmmaking in Ghana as …
Southeast Asian Studies
March 2, 2016
Mother Figured
Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal
Deirdre de la Cruz
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Filipino Catholics are especially drawn to Mama Mary and have a strong belief in her …
American Studies
January 5, 2016
American Possessions
Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States
Sean McCloud
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Exorcisms and demons. In his new book American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States (Oxford University Press, 2015), Sean McCloud argues that not only have such phenomena been …
American Studies
November 12, 2015
Hittin' the Prayer Bones
Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Anderson Blanton
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Anderson Blanton's Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of …
European Studies
October 28, 2015
Emotions and Christian Missions
Historical Perspectives
Claire McLisky, Daniel Midena, Keran Vallgard
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Published by Palgrave in 2015, Emotions and Christian Missions: Historical Perspectives brings together scholars from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England, the US, Germany, and Denmark. Through a set of wide-ranging …
Latin American Studies
September 17, 2015
Border Medicine
A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo
Brett Hendrickson
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Mexican American religious healing - often called curanderismo - is a vital component of life in the US-Mexican borderlands. In his book Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American …
Law
July 12, 2015
A Ministry of Presence
Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and the Law
Winnifred F. Sullivan
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
As patterns of religiosity have changed in the United States, chaplains have come to occupy an increasingly important place in the nation's public institutions, especially its prisons, hospitals and military …
Biblical Studies
June 28, 2015
Blood
A Critique of Christianity
Gil Anidjar
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Blood. It is more than a thing and more than a metaphor. It is an effective concept, an element, with which, and through which, Christianity becomes what it is. Western …
European Studies
May 29, 2015
The Anthropology of Protestantism
Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen
Joseph Webster
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
In The Anthropology of Protestantism:Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), anthropologist Joseph Webster takes readers deep into the lives of fishermen in Gamrie, a village perched above …
American Studies
March 31, 2015
Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America
Paula Kane
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America (UNC Press, 2013) is a detailed journey into the life of Margaret Reilly, an American Irish-Catholic from New York who entered the …
Religion
March 10, 2015
Religion and the Sciences of Origins
Kelly James Clark
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Kelly James Clark acknowledges that for many people in the contemporary West it can seem as though scientists, from Darwin and Dawkins, have succeeded in disproving religion: God is simply …
American Studies
February 2, 2015
The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs
Emma Anderson
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Martyrdom, writes Emma Anderson, is anything but random. In beautiful prose and spectacular historical detail, The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs (Harvard University Press, 2013), takes readers …
Anthropology
January 6, 2015
Ritual Textuality
Pattern and Motion in Performance
Matt Tomlinson
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Religious ritual has been a staple of anthropological study. In his latest monograph, Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (Oxford University Press 2014), cultural anthropologist Matt Tomlinson takes up …
Biblical Studies
December 4, 2014
An Unusual Relationship
Evangelical Christians and Jews
Yaacov Ariel
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
"In no other instance," notes Yaacov Ariel, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "have members of one community of faith considered another group to …
Anthropology
November 21, 2014
Spirits of Protestantism
Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Pamela Klassen
Hosted by Hillary Kaell
Liberal Protestants are often dismissed as reflecting nothing more than a therapeutic culture or viewed as a measuring rod for the decline of Christian orthodoxy. Rarely have they been the …
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