2513 Episodes

  1. Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/13/2025
  2. Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia

    Published: 4/12/2025
  3. Haggadah Roundup

    Published: 4/11/2025
  4. Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/10/2025
  5. Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias

    Published: 4/9/2025
  6. Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)

    Published: 4/7/2025
  7. Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/6/2025
  8. Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality

    Published: 4/5/2025
  9. Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/3/2025
  10. Wafik W. Wahba, "Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/31/2025
  11. Bruce L. Vernarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/30/2025
  12. Rune Nyord, "Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/29/2025
  13. Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/28/2025
  14. Kiyokazu Okita, "The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town" (Brill, 2023)

    Published: 3/27/2025
  15. James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/24/2025
  16. Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/20/2025
  17. Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/19/2025
  18. Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/18/2025
  19. Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/17/2025
  20. Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/16/2025

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