New Books in Religion

2530 Episodes

1. Michael Muhammad Knight, “Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing” (Soft Skull Press, 2013)

   Published: 6/13/2017
2. Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)

   Published: 6/8/2017
3. Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)

   Published: 6/1/2017
4. Armando Salvatore, “Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power, Civility” (Wiley, 2016)

   Published: 6/1/2017
5. Sarah Imhoff, “Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism” (Indiana UP, 2017)

   Published: 5/31/2017
6. Gregory Reichberg, “Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 5/30/2017
7. David Mitchell, “The Song of Ascents: Psalms 120 to 134 in the Worship of Jerusalem’s Temples” (Campbell Publications, 2015)

   Published: 5/26/2017
8. Patrick J. Hayes, “The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist” (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2016)

   Published: 5/23/2017
9. Jon Mills, “Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality” (Routledge, 2016)

   Published: 5/21/2017
10. Ashon T. Crawley, “Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility” (Fordham UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/19/2017
11. Sarah Ruden, “The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible” (Pantheon, 2017)

    Published: 5/17/2017
12. Don Baker, “Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea” (U. Hawaii Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/16/2017
13. Jeanette Jouili, “Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe” (Stanford UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/15/2017
14. Leonard Barkan, “Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/8/2017
15. David Bryan and David Pao, eds, “Ascent into Heaven in Luke – Acts” (Fortress Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/2/2017
16. Maya Barzilai, “Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters” (NYU Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/1/2017
17. Matthew J. Walton, “Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/27/2017
18. William Kolbrener, “The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition” (Indiana UP, 2016)

    Published: 4/24/2017
19. S. Brent Plate ed., “Key Terms in Material Religion” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

    Published: 4/24/2017
20. Rosemary Corbett, “Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Controversy” (Stanford UP, 2016)

    Published: 4/23/2017