Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
Episode 237
Russell McCutcheon shares his views on the academic study of religion, and the path ahead for religion graduates and the field itself. McCutcheon is …
3 years, 11 months ago
Amina Wadud, "Once in a Lifetime" (Kantara Press, 2022)
Episode 286
In this interview, we speak with Dr. amina wadud about her latest book Once in a Lifetime (Kantara Press, 2022), a book that started out as a blog fo…
3 years, 11 months ago
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 223
During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyyāʾ Qazwīnī authored what became one of the most influential works of natural …
3 years, 11 months ago
Beatrice Forbes Manz, "Nomads in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 199
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts …
3 years, 11 months ago
Nile Green, "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London" (Princeton UP, 2015)
Episode 198
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the mode…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ken Chitwood, "The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean" (Lynn Rienner, 2021)
Episode 284
Ken Chitwood’s book The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean (Lynn Rienner Publishers Inc, 2021) is a provocation to its readers to include Lat…
3 years, 11 months ago
Abiodun Alao, "Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 145
In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God (Duke University Press, 2022), Dr. Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in p…
3 years, 11 months ago
On Edward Said's "Orientalism"
Episode 72
Beginning in the 17th century, European countries began colonizing countries east of Europe. They imposed their own ideas over local cultures and ext…
3 years, 11 months ago
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 86
In The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2021), Aisha Khan explores how colonial categories of rac…
3 years, 11 months ago
Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Episode 15
In Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy (U Notre Dame Press, 2022), Peter Adamson provides an answer to a question a…
4 years ago