New Books in Religion

2523 Episodes

1. Mira Beth Wasserman, “Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities” (U Penn Press, 2017)

   Published: 5/2/2018
2. Guillaume Rozenberg, “The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2015)

   Published: 4/30/2018
3. Michal Kravel-Tovi, “When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel” (Columbia UP, 2017)

   Published: 4/25/2018
4. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels and Jihad” (I. B. Tauris, 2017)

   Published: 4/17/2018
5. David A. Hollinger, “Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World and Changed America” (Princeton UP, 2017).

   Published: 4/6/2018
6. Mira Balberg, “Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature” (U California Press, 2017)

   Published: 4/5/2018
7. Jared Compton, “Psalm 110 and the Logic of Hebrews” (T and T Clark, 2018)

   Published: 4/2/2018
8. Motti Inbari, “Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women’s Equality” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

   Published: 3/23/2018
9. Sadek Hamid, “Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Grounds of British Islamic Activism” (I.B. Tauris, 2016)

   Published: 3/8/2018
10. James Chappel, “Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church” (Harvard UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/7/2018
11. Cynthia Baker, “Jew” (Rutgers UP, 2017)

    Published: 3/7/2018
12. Brandi Denison, “Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009” (U Nebraska Press, 2017)

    Published: 3/5/2018
13. Amy Langenberg, “Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom” (Routledge, 2017)

    Published: 2/27/2018
14. David Biale, “Hasidism: A New History” (Princeton UP, 2018)

    Published: 2/22/2018
15. Mark Edward Ruff, “The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 2/21/2018
16. Michael Shermer, “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt, 2018)

    Published: 2/20/2018
17. Marie Griffith, “Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics” (Basic Books, 2017)

    Published: 2/20/2018
18. Bryan R. Dyer, “Suffering in the Face of Death: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Its Context of Situation” (Bloomsbury, 2017)

    Published: 2/20/2018
19. Alfred Ivry, “Maimonides’ ‘Guide of the Perplexed’: A Philosophical Guide” (University of Chicago, 2016)

    Published: 2/13/2018
20. Michael Ruse, “On Purpose” (Princeton UP, 2017)

    Published: 2/12/2018