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New Books in Religion

New Books in Religion


New Books in Religion

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Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books
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Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its fo...

43 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics? Why a...

58 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018)

Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries a...

48 minutes
Apr 29, 2024

Purushottama Bilimoria et al., "Contemplative Studies and Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration" (Routledge, 2023)

Contemplative Studies and Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration (Routledge, 2023)...

41 minutes
Apr 25, 2024

M. A. R. Habib and Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Qur'an: A Verse Translation" (Liveright, 2024)

In their landmark new translation of the Qur’an, The Qur’an: A Verse Translation (LIver...

68 minutes
Apr 23, 2024

Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, "Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbur...

56 minutes
Apr 21, 2024

Arsalan Khan, "The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)

The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan (Cornell Univer...

81 minutes
Apr 19, 2024

Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the gener...

24 minutes
Apr 17, 2024

Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)

From the theatre mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial reco...

30 minutes
Apr 14, 2024

Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han in...

73 minutes
Apr 13, 2024