New Books in Religion

2510 Episodes

1. Charles Price, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)

   Published: 4/4/2023
2. Jeremy Kagan, "The Intellect and the Exodus" (Maggid, 2018)

   Published: 4/3/2023
3. Philip Jenkins, "He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives of Psalm 91" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 4/1/2023
4. Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

   Published: 3/31/2023
5. Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)

   Published: 3/30/2023
6. Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/28/2023
7. A Review of "A Critique of Western Buddhism"

   Published: 3/28/2023
8. Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)

   Published: 3/27/2023
9. Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

   Published: 3/25/2023
10. David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)

    Published: 3/24/2023
11. Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, "Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins" (Routledge, 2022)

    Published: 3/23/2023
12. Trent Walker, "Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia" (Shambhala, 2022)

    Published: 3/22/2023
13. Tobias Tanton, "Corporeal Theology: The Nature of Theological Understanding in Light of Embodied Cognition" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/22/2023
14. Peter Heather, "Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300" (Knopf, 2023)

    Published: 3/21/2023
15. John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/21/2023
16. David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    Published: 3/19/2023
17. Aaron Rock-Singer, "In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East" (U California Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/17/2023
18. Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/15/2023
19. Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson, "Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories" (NYU Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/15/2023
20. Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/14/2023