New Books in Christian Studies
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The Future of the Jesuits: A Discussion with Markus Friedrich
48 mins; September 06, 2022
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
48 mins; September 06, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
51 mins; September 01, 2022
Robert Edmund Cotter, "John Cennick (1718-1755): Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism" (Routledge, 2022)
32 mins; August 29, 2022
Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale, "Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; August 29, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
47 mins; August 29, 2022
Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
53 mins; August 26, 2022
Jamil W. Drake, "To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk" (Oxford UP, 2022)
28 mins; August 22, 2022
Studying Black Religious Thought
44 mins; August 22, 2022
On Soren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
32 mins; August 19, 2022
Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney, "Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
44 mins; August 19, 2022
Marc Roscoe Loustau, "Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
61 hours 37 mins; August 17, 2022
Paolo Squatriti, "Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
52 mins; August 17, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
65 hours 30 mins; August 12, 2022
Sarosh Koshy, "Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
54 mins; August 12, 2022
Jordan Denari Duffner, "Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination" (Orbis, 2021)
55 mins; August 11, 2022
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
36 mins; August 08, 2022
On Online Churches
67 hours 6 mins; August 08, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 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)
66 hours 37 mins; August 03, 2022
Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
62 hours 34 mins; July 29, 2022
Yonatan Neril and Leo Dee, "Eco Bible: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus" (ICSD, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; July 29, 2022
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
61 hours 32 mins; July 28, 2022
Thomas S. Kidd, "Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" (Yale UP, 2017)
63 hours 22 mins; July 27, 2022
James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, "The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021)
67 hours 45 mins; July 25, 2022
Ann Marie Borys, "American Unitarian Churches: Architecture of a Democratic Religion" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
26 mins; July 22, 2022
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, "Orthodox Cyprus Under the Latins, 1191-1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities" (Lexington Books, 2018)
63 hours 43 mins; July 22, 2022
Philippe Denis, "The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial" (James Currey, 2022)
62 hours 21 mins; July 17, 2022
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
57 mins; July 14, 2022
Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; July 12, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
54 mins; July 10, 2022
Holly Welker, "Revising Eternity: 27 Latter-Day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 08, 2022
Andrew R. Polk, "Faith in Freedom: Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion" (Cornell UP, 2021)
57 mins; July 07, 2022
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 11 mins; July 07, 2022
Helen Jin Kim, "Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
83 hours 37 mins; July 05, 2022
Annette G. Aubert and Zachary Purvis, "Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity" (Brill, 2021)
43 mins; July 05, 2022
Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)
69 hours 49 mins; July 04, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2022
Nicholas T. Pruitt, "Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism" (NYU Press, 2021)
47 mins; June 30, 2022
On Evangelicals in Antebellum America
46 mins; June 30, 2022
G. Ronald Murphy, "Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City" (UNC Press, 2020)
44 mins; June 30, 2022
Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
45 mins; June 28, 2022
On the Roman Catacombs: A Discussion with William Gruen
56 mins; June 28, 2022
Yin Cao, "From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945" (Brill, 2017)
53 mins; June 28, 2022
D. G. Hart, "Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; June 28, 2022
John Gillis, "The Fadden More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
50 mins; June 28, 2022
On Byzantium and 'Romanland'
66 hours 2 mins; June 28, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
69 hours 48 mins; June 24, 2022
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, "European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
64 hours 35 mins; June 22, 2022
Andrew Sneddon, "Representing Magic in Modern Ireland: Belief, History, Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
31 mins; June 21, 2022
Paul T. Murray, "Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed: Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice" (AAFH, 2022)
57 mins; June 20, 2022
James Elisha Taneti, "Telugu Christians: A History" (Fortress Press, 2022)
89 hours 27 mins; June 20, 2022
W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)
25 mins; June 20, 2022
Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
68 hours 29 mins; June 20, 2022
Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
58 mins; June 17, 2022
Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
86 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2022
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
49 mins; June 14, 2022
Matt King, "Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 44 mins; June 10, 2022
Virginia Reinburg, "Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Nature, and History in Early Modern France" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
41 mins; June 10, 2022
Paul Pearson, "Spiritual Direction from Dante: Yearning for Paradise" (Tan, 2022)
38 mins; June 09, 2022
On Religion and Photography in 19th-Century America
50 mins; June 09, 2022
On the Myth of Divine Chosenness
54 mins; June 07, 2022
Robert Chao Romero, "Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity" (InterVarsity Press, 2020)
66 hours 32 mins; June 03, 2022
James S. Bielo, "Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
69 hours 20 mins; June 02, 2022
John K. Roth and Carol Rittner, "The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies" (NCCHE, 2022)
76 hours 39 mins; June 01, 2022
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
65 hours 9 mins; June 01, 2022
Mary Franklin and Hannah Burton, "She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers" (Iter Press, 2019)
42 mins; June 01, 2022
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
66 hours 6 mins; May 30, 2022
James Clark, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History" (Yale UP, 2021)
96 hours 36 mins; May 26, 2022
Alejandro Nava, "Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; May 25, 2022
Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation" (Yale UP, 2022)
32 mins; May 24, 2022
Peter Kreeft, "Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs" (Ignatius Press, 2016)
34 mins; May 20, 2022
Cathleen Bearse, "Mental Health Journal for Christians: Faith-Based Prompts to Improve Your Mind, Body & Spirit" (Rockridge, 2022)
44 mins; May 19, 2022
Konden Smith Hansen, "Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907" (U Utah Press, 2019)
61 hours 39 mins; May 19, 2022
Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 27 mins; May 18, 2022
Dana W. Logan, "Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
55 mins; May 13, 2022
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
51 mins; May 13, 2022
Katherine Dugan, "Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool" (Oxford UP, 2019)
41 mins; May 10, 2022
Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)
57 mins; May 09, 2022
Sarah Walsh, "The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
73 hours 7 mins; May 05, 2022
Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
74 hours 50 mins; May 04, 2022
On Christianity and American Political Culture
59 mins; May 04, 2022
On Mary Magdalene in the Reformation
40 mins; May 02, 2022
JoĂŁo B. Chaves, "The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism" (Mercer UP, 2022)
106 hours 3 mins; April 28, 2022
Christopher Tounsel, "Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan" (Duke UP, 2021)
55 mins; April 28, 2022
Steve A. Wiggins, "Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons" (Fortress, 2020)
56 mins; April 27, 2022
Jennifer K. Seman, "Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo" (U Texas Press, 2021)
96 hours 59 mins; April 25, 2022
Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
64 hours 34 mins; April 25, 2022
Tomer Persico, "In God’s Image: The Making of the Modern World" (Yediot Aharonot, 2021)
61 hours 23 mins; April 25, 2022
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
33 mins; April 22, 2022
On Rock'n'Roll, aka "The Devil's Music"
53 mins; April 22, 2022
Lindsey Krinks, "Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets" (Brazos, 2021)
37 mins; April 15, 2022
On Sanctuary Churches and the Role of Christianity
51 mins; April 15, 2022
On Belief in God: Good, Bad, or Irrelevant?
55 mins; April 13, 2022
Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)
70 hours 55 mins; April 12, 2022
James C. Ungureanu, "Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
73 hours 57 mins; April 12, 2022
On Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Historical Jesus
43 mins; April 11, 2022
Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: GuaranĂ­, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
108 hours 1 min; April 07, 2022
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
53 mins; April 06, 2022
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
51 mins; April 01, 2022