New Books in Catholic Studies
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The Little Way: Making Friends with the Saints
40 mins; January 02, 2023
Divine Intoxication: A Discussion about Alcoholism, Grace, Sainthood, and Women in the Church
57 mins; January 01, 2023
The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
45 mins; December 31, 2022
Catholic Movies, Part 1: "Silence" and "The Scarlet and the Black"
62 hours 41 mins; December 30, 2022
The Silence of God: The Meaning of Our Suffering and Redemption
58 mins; December 29, 2022
Quo Vademus? The Pilgrim Church on the Road of Synodality
47 mins; December 28, 2022
Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
54 mins; December 27, 2022
How Do We Know There is a God? Rational Proofs for a Loving God
50 mins; December 26, 2022
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; December 20, 2022
Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
62 hours 33 mins; December 20, 2022
Martyrs in Mosul: A Conversation on Christian Persecution with Father Benedict Kiely
43 mins; December 20, 2022
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, "A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American" (UNC Press, 2019
41 mins; December 17, 2022
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
44 mins; December 07, 2022
Mary Channen Caldwell, "Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
30 mins; December 07, 2022
Henni Alava, "Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
93 hours 40 mins; December 01, 2022
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
72 hours 30 mins; November 29, 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
75 hours 37 mins; November 28, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
42 mins; November 25, 2022
Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)
29 mins; November 24, 2022
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 17, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
62 hours 33 mins; November 11, 2022
Anna von der Goltz, "The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2021)
78 hours 33 mins; November 08, 2022
Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long, "T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology" (T&T Clark, 2020)
28 mins; November 08, 2022
Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
87 hours 45 mins; November 03, 2022
Victor Stater, "Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was" (Yale UP, 2022)
46 mins; October 31, 2022
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
87 hours 34 mins; October 26, 2022
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
54 mins; October 21, 2022
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)
54 mins; October 20, 2022
Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
47 mins; October 20, 2022
Gina Zurlo, "Global Christianity: A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe" (Zondervan Academic, 2022)
60 hours 29 mins; October 14, 2022
John D'Emilio, "Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties" (Duke UP, 2022)
46 mins; October 12, 2022
S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
55 mins; October 07, 2022
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; October 05, 2022
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files" (CUA Press, 2022)
56 mins; September 30, 2022
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 30, 2022
Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective
23 mins; September 27, 2022
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning" (Palgrave, 2018)
34 mins; September 22, 2022
Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
60 hours 41 mins; September 20, 2022
On How the Vatican Makes Saints
52 mins; September 16, 2022
Felicia Wu Song, "Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
25 mins; September 14, 2022
The Future of the Jesuits: A Discussion with Markus Friedrich
44 mins; September 06, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
46 mins; August 29, 2022
Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
52 mins; August 26, 2022
Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney, "Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
43 mins; August 19, 2022
Marc Roscoe Loustau, "Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
60 hours 37 mins; August 17, 2022
Sarosh Koshy, "Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
53 mins; August 12, 2022
Jordan Denari Duffner, "Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination" (Orbis, 2021)
54 mins; August 11, 2022
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, "The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently" (HarperOne, 2020)
65 hours 37 mins; August 03, 2022
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; July 28, 2022
James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, "The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021)
66 hours 45 mins; July 25, 2022
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, "Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities" (Lexington Books, 2018)
62 hours 43 mins; July 22, 2022
Philippe Denis, "The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial" (James Currey, 2022)
61 hours 21 mins; July 17, 2022
Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; July 12, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
53 mins; July 10, 2022
Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis, "Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity" (Brill, 2021)
42 mins; July 05, 2022
Andrew Sneddon, "Representing Magic in Modern Ireland: Belief, History, Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
30 mins; June 21, 2022
Paul T. Murray, "Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed: Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice" (AAFH, 2022)
56 mins; June 20, 2022
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
84 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2022
Virginia Reinburg, "Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
40 mins; June 10, 2022
Paul Pearson, "Spiritual Direction from Dante: Yearning for Paradise" (Tan, 2022)
37 mins; June 09, 2022
Robert Chao Romero, "Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity" (InterVarsity Press, 2020)
64 hours 32 mins; June 03, 2022
John K. Roth and Carol Rittner, "The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies" (NCCHE, 2022)
74 hours 39 mins; June 01, 2022
James Clark, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History" (Yale UP, 2021)
94 hours 36 mins; May 26, 2022
Peter Kreeft, "Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs" (Ignatius Press, 2016)
33 mins; May 20, 2022
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
49 mins; May 13, 2022
Katherine Dugan, "Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool" (Oxford UP, 2019)
39 mins; May 10, 2022
Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)
55 mins; May 09, 2022
Sarah Walsh, "The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
71 hours 7 mins; May 05, 2022
Stanley Bill, "CzesƂaw MiƂosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
72 hours 50 mins; May 04, 2022
On Mary Magdalene in the Reformation
40 mins; May 02, 2022
Jennifer K. Seman, "Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo" (U Texas Press, 2021)
94 hours 59 mins; April 25, 2022
Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
62 hours 34 mins; April 25, 2022
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
32 mins; April 22, 2022
James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
71 hours 57 mins; April 12, 2022
Patrick J. McDonagh, "Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
34 mins; April 08, 2022
Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: GuaranĂ­, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
106 hours 1 min; April 07, 2022
Mark Newman, "Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
44 mins; April 01, 2022
Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; March 31, 2022
Elayne Oliphant, "The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris" (UChicago Press, 2021)
54 mins; March 25, 2022
Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
85 hours 56 mins; March 24, 2022
On Medieval Christianity and Monastic Worlds
56 mins; March 23, 2022
Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
87 hours 45 mins; March 21, 2022
Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)
32 mins; March 18, 2022
On Jesuits and Zen
57 mins; March 17, 2022
Katherine D. Moran, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell UP, 2020)
42 mins; March 16, 2022
Sophie Cooper, "Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
51 mins; March 14, 2022
Carl R. Weinberg, "Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism In America" (Cornell UP, 2021)
77 hours 53 mins; March 10, 2022
Jadwiga Biskupska, "Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
56 mins; March 04, 2022
Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
73 hours 44 mins; March 03, 2022
Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
43 mins; March 02, 2022
Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
60 hours 4 mins; February 24, 2022
Darian R. Lockett, "Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
77 hours 6 mins; February 23, 2022
Sarah Shortall, "Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics" (Harvard UP, 2021)
57 mins; February 21, 2022
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
68 hours 27 mins; February 16, 2022
Phillip A. Cantrell, "Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
51 mins; February 10, 2022
Margaret M. Scull, "The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998" (Oxford UP, 2019)
44 mins; February 08, 2022
Tracy Collins, "Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology" (Cork UP, 2021)
46 mins; February 04, 2022
Joseph W. Ho, "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; February 02, 2022
Mary J. Henold, "The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era" (UNC Press, 2020)
48 mins; January 31, 2022
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)
55 mins; January 31, 2022