Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books
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Faith and Politics with David Gergen, Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Eboo Patel, and John Dankosky
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2018-05-10
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Jennifer Graber, “The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West” (Oxford University Press, 2018)
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2018-05-08
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Mira Beth Wasserman, “Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities” (U Penn Press, 2017)
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2018-05-02
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Guillaume Rozenberg, “The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
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2018-04-30
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Michal Kravel-Tovi, “When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel” (Columbia UP, 2017)
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2018-04-25
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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels and Jihad” (I. B. Tauris, 2017)
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2018-04-17
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David A. Hollinger, “Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World and Changed America” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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2018-04-06
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Mira Balberg, “Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature” (U California Press, 2017)
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2018-04-05
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Jared Compton, “Psalm 110 and the Logic of Hebrews” (T and T Clark, 2018)
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2018-04-02
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Motti Inbari, “Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women’s Equality” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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2018-03-23
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Sadek Hamid, “Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Grounds of British Islamic Activism” (I.B. Tauris, 2016)
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2018-03-08
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James Chappel, “Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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2018-03-07
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Cynthia Baker, “Jew” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
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2018-03-07
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Brandi Denison, “Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009” (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
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2018-03-05
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Amy Langenberg, “Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom” (Routledge, 2017)
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2018-02-27
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David Biale, “Hasidism: A New History” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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2018-02-22
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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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