Pentecostal Podcast
December 6, 2010
Prof. Margaret Poloma joins Tony Gill at Research on Religion to discuss her new book, The Assemblies of God: Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism (co-authored with John… READ MORE
Category: Religion
A Paranormal Belief for Every Religion
October 21, 2010
Continuing our posts on our new book Paranormal America, attached to this post you will find a table linking paranormal beliefs to various religions in America. Catholics, Protestants and Jews… READ MORE
Who Doesn’t Believe in Big Foot?
October 19, 2010
A review in the Washington Post Book World picked three new books about UFOs, and it led off with a review of our title: UFOs exist — about that we… READ MORE
Two NYU Press Authors Discuss the Black Church & Homosexuality
October 5, 2010
Two NYU Press authors weighed in at CNN.com about accusations that Bishop Eddie Long sexually abused teenagers in his ministry. First, Jonathan Walton, author of Watch This! The Ethics and… READ MORE
New Series: North American Religions
September 17, 2010
NYU Press is seeking submissions to this pathbreaking new series. In recent years a cadre of industrious, imaginative, and highly intelligent scholars have focused their attention on North American Religions…. READ MORE
Tales of Transcendence
July 29, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education gives its blessing to David Weddle’s new book, Miracles: Wonder and Meaning in World Religions, in a review by Kacie Glenn. In Miracles: Wonder and… READ MORE
Favorite Poem: Phil Zuckerman
April 23, 2010
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has… READ MORE
Required Reading on Dreams
March 11, 2010
At Blog o’ Gnosis, Minister Ann Hill reviews Kelly Bulkeley’s Dreaming in the World’s Religions: A Comparative History. Dreaming in the World’s Religions finally answers the basic question: how did… READ MORE