Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNadim Bawalsa, "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 203
Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936…
3 years, 6 months ago
Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)
Episode 86
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete conditi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Teemu Taira, "Atheism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Episode 57
Atheism in Five Minutes, by Professor Teemu Taira, is part of Equinox Publishing’s “Religion in 5 Minutes” series. It offers insights into a number o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Chris McMorran, "Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Episode 104
Today I talked to Chris McMorran about his new book Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2022).
Amid the decline of many of …
3 years, 6 months ago
Gregory Shushan, "The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife" (White Crow Books, 2022)
Episode 183
In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relations…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lan Anh Hoang, "Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Episode 114
Vietnam and Russia share a common socialist history dating back to the Cold War. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Vietnam’s đổi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Henni Alava, "Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 150
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloom…
3 years, 6 months ago
Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
Episode 148
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified live…
3 years, 6 months ago
Eugenia Roussou, "Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 182
Eugenia Roussou's book Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece (Bloomsbury, 2021) thoroughly il…
3 years, 6 months ago
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Episode 334
In Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox (Edinburgh UP, 2021), Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and ind…
3 years, 6 months ago