New Books in Religion

2530 Episodes

1. Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, “The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2015)

   Published: 8/29/2016
2. Akiko Takenaka, “Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)

   Published: 8/24/2016
3. Jonathan Garb, “Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)

   Published: 8/22/2016
4. Silvia Jonas, “Ineffability and Its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

   Published: 8/15/2016
5. Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)

   Published: 7/25/2016
6. Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)

   Published: 7/25/2016
7. Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)

   Published: 7/21/2016
8. Aisha Geissinger, “Gender and the Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary (Brill, 2015)

   Published: 7/12/2016
9. Elizabeth Hurd, “Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion” (Princeton UP, 2015)

   Published: 6/27/2016
10. Joseph Lam, “Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept” (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 6/26/2016
11. Sandow Birk, “American Qur’an” (Liveright, 2015)

    Published: 6/15/2016
12. Saskia Coenen Snyder, “Building a Public Judaism” (Harvard UP, 2013)

    Published: 6/13/2016
13. Jon D. Levenson, “The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism” (Princeton UP, 2016)

    Published: 6/9/2016
14. Richard B. Hays, “Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness” (Baylor UP, 2014)

    Published: 6/6/2016
15. Charles Keith, “Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation” (U of California Press, 2012)

    Published: 6/6/2016
16. Jason Bivins, “Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion” (Oxford UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/31/2016
17. Dianne Ashton, “Hanukkah in America: A History” (New York UP, 2013)

    Published: 5/31/2016
18. Adam Ferziger, “Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism” (Wayne State UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/28/2016
19. Jonathon S. Kahn and Vincent W. Lloyd, editors, “Race And Secularism in America” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/28/2016
20. Todd Endelman, “Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History” (Princeton UP, 2015)

    Published: 5/23/2016