Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium me
Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "syncretism" in which certain apparent dev
Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vanco
In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadga
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen’s book Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (Edinburgh University
In this fascinating interview, Nathanael J. Homewood discusses his new book,Seductive Spirits: Deliv
Shehnaz Haqqani's new book Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes (Equinox, 2024) provides an accessible set of essays on questions re
Today’s book is: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Scribner, 2024), by Dr. Marion Gibson, which ex
An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where P
In an era where congregations are shrinking and fewer people engage with faith communities, Michael
In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Ca
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women wer
What does it mean that God hears? Can a God who is "pure act" be affected in such a way? What does t
The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt: The History of a Diaspora Community in Light of the Papyri (De Gruyter,
The metaphor of New Jerusalem has long been used to justify dueling narratives of America as the lan
Given the continued challenges that face the higher education job market in the Humanities in North
This is my second conversation with Paul Zucarelli who died in 2017 and returned from the dead throu
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were thre
Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Ea
Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Pr
