Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books
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Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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2017-11-10
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Matthew S. Rindge, “Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream” (Baylor UP, 2016)
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2017-11-10
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Bruce R. Berglund, “Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague” (CEU Press, 2017)
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2017-11-09
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John Powers, “The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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2017-11-07
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Rebecca Fraser, “The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America” (St. Martin’s Press, 2017)
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2017-11-07
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Theodore Vial, “Modern Religion, Modern Race” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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2017-11-06
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Andrew R. Lewis, “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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2017-11-06
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Andrew Copson, “Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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2017-11-03
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Marie Alohalani Brown, “Facing the Spears of Change: The Life and Legacy of John Papa Ii” (U. Hawaii Press, 2016)
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2017-10-27
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Daromir Rudnyckyj and Filippo Osella, eds., “Religion and the Morality of the Market: Anthropological Perspectives” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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2017-10-24
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James L. Kugel, “The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
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2017-10-23
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Ronnie Perelis, “Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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2017-10-18
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Adam Gaiser, “Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism and the Making of an Early Islamic Community” (U. South Carolina Press, 2016)
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2017-10-18
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Andrea L. Turpin, “A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917” (Cornell UP, 2017)
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2017-10-16
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David L. Weddle, “Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” (NYU Press, 2017)
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2017-10-16
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Bruce B. Lawrence, “The Koran in English: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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2017-10-16
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Raymond D. Bradley, “God’s Gravediggers: Why No Deity Exists” (Ockham Publishing, 2016)
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2017-10-12
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David C. Mitchell, “Messiah ben Joseph” (Campbell Publications, 2016)
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2017-10-12
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Justin R. Ritzinger, “Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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2017-10-09
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Hugh Urban, “Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
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2017-10-09
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