Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books
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Mark Edward Ruff, “The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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2018-02-21
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Michael Shermer, “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt, 2018)
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2018-02-20
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Marie Griffith, “Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics” (Basic Books, 2017)
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2018-02-20
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Bryan R. Dyer, “Suffering in the Face of Death: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Its Context of Situation” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
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2018-02-20
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Alfred Ivry, “Maimonides’ ‘Guide of the Perplexed’: A Philosophical Guide” (University of Chicago, 2016)
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2018-02-13
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Michael Ruse, “On Purpose” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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2018-02-12
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Leon Wiener Dow, “The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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2018-02-09
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Anna Andreeva, “Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2017)
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2018-02-07
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Kathryn Troy, “The Specter of the Indian: Race, Gender and Ghosts in American Seances, 1848-1890” (SUNY Press, 2017)
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2018-02-01
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Alexander Knysh, “Sufism: A New History” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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2018-02-01
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Mark Sedgwick, “Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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2018-01-31
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Joel Blecher, “Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary Across a Millennium” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
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2018-01-24
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Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
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2018-01-18
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Ella Shohat, “On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements” (Pluto Press, 2017)
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2018-01-16
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Tam T. T. Ngo, “The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
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2018-01-09
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Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, “God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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2018-01-07
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Crawford Gribben, “John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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2018-01-05
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Judith Schindler and Judy Seldin-Cohen, “Recharging Judaism” (CCAR, 2017)
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2018-01-01
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Dan Barker, “God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction” (Sterling, 2016)
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2017-12-30
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Elizabeth Bucar, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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2017-12-25
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