Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books
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Michael Haykin, “The Reformers and Puritans as Spiritual Mentors” (Joshua Press, 2012 )
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2012-07-31
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Alison Miers, “Charlinder’s Walk” (CreateSpace, 2011)
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2012-07-31
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Jeff Wilson, “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” (UNC Press, 2012)
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2012-07-20
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Steve Kemper, “Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa” (Norton, 2012)
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2012-07-20
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Katherine Stewart, “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children” (PublicAffairs, 2012)
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2012-07-11
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Ann Elizabeth Mayer, “Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)
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2012-06-24
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Kelly Baker, “Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930” (University Press of Kansas, 2011)
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2012-06-24
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Sherine Hamdy, “Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt” (University of California Press, 2012)
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2012-06-20
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Peter Beinart, “The Crisis of Zionism” (Times Books, 2012)
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2012-06-13
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Greta Christina, “Why Are you Atheists so Angry?: 99 Things that Piss off the Godless” (Dirty Heathen, 2012)
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2012-06-11
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Phil Zuckerman, “Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment” (New York University Press, 2010)
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2012-05-23
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Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (University of California Press, 2011)
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2012-05-17
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Hank Glassman, “The Face of JizÅ: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
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2012-05-10
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Robert F. Shedinger, “Was Jesus a Muslim?: Questioning Categories in the Study of Religion” (Fortress Press, 2009)
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2012-05-07
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Elizabeth West, “African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being” (Lexington Books, 2011)
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2012-04-09
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Robert F. Barsky and Noam Chomsky, “Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism” (MIT Press, 2011)
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2012-03-07
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Carl Ernst, "How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations" (UNC Press, 2011)
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2012-02-27
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Eric Weiner, “Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine” (Twelve, 2012)
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2012-02-15
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Parna Sengupta, “Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal” (University of California Press, 2011)
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2012-01-24
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Mark Rowe, “Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
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2011-12-15
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