New Books in Christian Studies
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Mary, Full of Grace: Catholic Beliefs about Mary and How We Know
56 mins; January 03, 2023
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, "Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
99 hours 43 mins; January 03, 2023
Joel Robbins, "Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 12 mins; January 03, 2023
The Little Way: Making Friends with the Saints
41 mins; January 02, 2023
Divine Intoxication: A Discussion about Alcoholism, Grace, Sainthood, and Women in the Church
58 mins; January 01, 2023
The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
46 mins; December 31, 2022
The Silence of God: The Meaning of Our Suffering and Redemption
59 mins; December 29, 2022
Quo Vademus? The Pilgrim Church on the Road of Synodality
48 mins; December 28, 2022
Sean Patterson, "Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921" (U Manitoba Press, 2020)
68 hours 50 mins; December 28, 2022
Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
55 mins; December 27, 2022
How Do We Know There is a God? Rational Proofs for a Loving God
51 mins; December 26, 2022
Emma Wild-Wood, "The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935" (James Currey, 2020)
95 hours 13 mins; December 25, 2022
Jerry Pinto and Madhulika Liddle, "Indian Christmas: Essays, Memories, Hymns" (Speaking Tiger, 2022)
41 mins; December 24, 2022
J. V. Fesko, "The Need for Creeds Today: Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age" (Baker Academic, 2020)
45 mins; December 24, 2022
Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
36 mins; December 24, 2022
Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)
28 mins; December 23, 2022
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 20, 2022
Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; December 20, 2022
J. V. Fesko, "The Spirit of the Age: The 19th-Century Debate Over the Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession" (Reformation Heritage, 2017)
40 mins; December 17, 2022
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, "A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American" (UNC Press, 2019
42 mins; December 17, 2022
Tom Bratrud, "Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
55 mins; December 10, 2022
Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
54 mins; December 10, 2022
On "Genesis"
38 mins; December 07, 2022
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
45 mins; December 07, 2022
Mary Channen Caldwell, "Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
31 mins; December 07, 2022
Gabriel Polley, "Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
67 hours 22 mins; December 05, 2022
Cristina Civantos, "JamĂłn and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural AndalucĂ­a" (Amherst College Press, 2022)
58 mins; December 05, 2022
Henni Alava, "Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
94 hours 40 mins; December 01, 2022
James Yansen, "Daughter Zion's Trauma: A Trauma Informed Reading of Lamentations" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
165 hours 12 mins; November 30, 2022
James K. A. Smith, "How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now" (Brazos Press, 2022)
41 mins; November 30, 2022
Eugenia Roussou, "Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
48 mins; November 29, 2022
William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; November 28, 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
76 hours 37 mins; November 28, 2022
Emilio Alvarez, "Pentecostal Orthodoxy: Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit" (InterVarsity Press, 2022)
35 mins; November 28, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 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)
30 mins; November 24, 2022
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
51 mins; November 21, 2022
Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
46 mins; November 17, 2022
Mary Dunn, "Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 17, 2022
Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
30 mins; November 16, 2022
Mark D. Calder, "Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice" (Gorgias Press, 2017)
107 hours 10 mins; November 16, 2022
Ernest M. Valea, "Artificial Intelligence, Reincarnation, and Resurrection: An Inquiry Into the Ultimate Fulfillment of Human Nature" (Resource Publications, 2021)
44 mins; November 14, 2022
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
45 mins; November 14, 2022
Abiodun Alao, "Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria" (Duke UP, 2022)
56 mins; November 11, 2022
Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; November 11, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; November 11, 2022
Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 10, 2022
Noel A. Snyder, "Sermons that Sing: Music and the Practice of Preaching" (IVP Academic, 2021)
38 mins; November 09, 2022
Anna von der Goltz, "The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2021)
79 hours 33 mins; November 08, 2022
Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long, "T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology" (T&T Clark, 2020)
29 mins; November 08, 2022
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
46 mins; November 07, 2022
Daniel Scarborough, "Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
66 hours 33 mins; November 07, 2022
Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
62 hours 36 mins; November 04, 2022
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
32 mins; November 04, 2022
Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; November 03, 2022
Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
63 hours 45 mins; November 02, 2022
Victor Stater, "Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was" (Yale UP, 2022)
47 mins; October 31, 2022
Jeffrey Bilbro, "Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News" (IVP Academic, 2021)
51 mins; October 31, 2022
On Augustine's "Confessions"
35 mins; October 31, 2022
ÁgĂșst MagnĂșsson, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
96 hours 2 mins; October 28, 2022
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 27, 2022
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
88 hours 34 mins; October 26, 2022
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
39 mins; October 25, 2022
Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
58 mins; October 24, 2022
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
55 mins; October 21, 2022
Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
48 mins; October 20, 2022
Martin FĂĄrek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)
54 mins; October 20, 2022
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 20, 2022
James F. McGrath, "What Jesus Learned from Women" (Cascade Books, 2021)
46 mins; October 18, 2022
P. De Vries, "The KābÎd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)
30 mins; October 17, 2022
Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
40 mins; October 17, 2022
Gina Zurlo, "Global Christianity: A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe" (Zondervan Academic, 2022)
61 hours 29 mins; October 14, 2022
John Behr, "John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology" (Oxford UP, 2021)
37 mins; October 13, 2022
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 13, 2022
Peter Coviello, "Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
67 hours 59 mins; October 12, 2022
John D'Emilio, "Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties" (Duke UP, 2022)
47 mins; October 12, 2022
Vibha Joshi, "A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India" (Berghahn Books, 2012)
69 hours 5 mins; October 12, 2022
Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)
43 mins; October 07, 2022
S. Karly Kehoe, "Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
56 mins; October 07, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
47 mins; October 07, 2022
Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
36 mins; October 07, 2022
On Early Christian Deathscapes
62 hours 37 mins; October 05, 2022
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; October 05, 2022
Ion Popa, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2017)
122 hours 16 mins; October 03, 2022
NBN Classic: R. David Cox, "The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee" (Eerdmans, 2017)
43 mins; October 02, 2022
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 30, 2022
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files" (CUA Press, 2022)
57 mins; September 30, 2022
Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective
23 mins; September 27, 2022
Andreea Kaltenbrunner, "For the Faith, Against the State: Old Calendarism in Romania (1924-1936)" (De Gruyter, 2022)
34 mins; September 27, 2022
Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Epistle of Barnabas: A Commentary" (Cascade Books, 2022)
32 mins; September 26, 2022
Jamie Barnes, "Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience" (Routledge, 2020)
61 hours 54 mins; September 23, 2022
Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
46 mins; September 22, 2022
Stephen F. Auth, "Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God Through Art and Time" (Sophia Institute Press, 2022)
32 mins; September 21, 2022
Randall Balmer, "Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America" (UNC Press, 2022)
61 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
On "The Book of Mormon"
41 mins; September 13, 2022
Pew Research Center: Analyzing the Evangelical Right
96 hours 15 mins; September 09, 2022
Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
35 mins; September 09, 2022