New Books in Religion

2530 Episodes

1. Keya Maitra, “Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

   Published: 8/15/2018
2. Eve Krakowski, “Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture” (Princeton UP, 2017)

   Published: 8/9/2018
3. Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014)

   Published: 8/2/2018
4. Katherine A. Bowie, “Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)

   Published: 7/27/2018
5. Heather Curtis, “Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid” (Harvard UP, 2018)

   Published: 7/24/2018
6. John O’Brien, “Keeping it Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys” (Princeton UP, 2017)

   Published: 7/24/2018
7. Jay Geller, “Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews” (Fordham UP, 2017)

   Published: 7/24/2018
8. John Bushnell, “Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries” (Indiana UP, 2017)

   Published: 7/20/2018
9. Ata Anzali, “‘Mysticism’ in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept” (U South Carolina Press, 2017)

   Published: 7/20/2018
10. Eliyahu Stern, “Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s” (Yale UP, 2018)

    Published: 7/18/2018
11. Elizabeth M. Sanders, “Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Crisis of Victorian Faith” (McFarland, 2017)

    Published: 7/12/2018
12. Zoltan Pall, “Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

    Published: 7/6/2018
13. Michelle C. Wang, “Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang” (Brill, 2018)

    Published: 7/5/2018
14. Christopher G. White, “Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions” (Harvard UP, 2018)

    Published: 7/4/2018
15. Lavanya Vemsani, “Modern Hinduism in Text and Context” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

    Published: 7/2/2018
16. Darcie Fontaine, “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

    Published: 6/26/2018
17. Ramon Harvey, “The Qur’an and the Just Society” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)

    Published: 6/25/2018
18. Eric Miller, “The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States” (Lexington Books, 2017)

    Published: 6/15/2018
19. Douglas L. Winiarski, “Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth Century New England” (UNC Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/29/2018
20. Joseph O. Baker and Buster G. Smith, “American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief” (NYU Press, 2015)

    Published: 5/23/2018