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New Books in Catholic Studies

 New Books Network

Interviews with scholars of Catholicism about their new books

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Average duration
56 minutes
Episodes
503
Years Active
2012 - 2025
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Mary Ziegler, “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” (Harvard UP, 2016)

Mary Ziegler, “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” (Harvard UP, 2016)

In this podcast I talk with Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law about her book, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard…
00:50:19  |   Tue 10 May 2016
Kathleen Holscher, “Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico” (Oxford UP, 2012)

Kathleen Holscher, “Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico” (Oxford UP, 2012)

In New Mexico, before World War Two, Catholic sisters in full habits routinely taught in public schools. In her fascinating new book, Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Cris…
01:05:37  |   Sat 30 Apr 2016
Daniel K. Williams, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Daniel K. Williams, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. His book, Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade (Oxford University Press, 2016) …
01:04:34  |   Fri 01 Apr 2016
Deirdre de la Cruz, “Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

Deirdre de la Cruz, “Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Filipino Catholics are especially drawn to Mama Mary and have a strong belief in her power, including her ability t…
01:10:31  |   Wed 02 Mar 2016
Samuel Moyn, “Christian Human Rights” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Samuel Moyn, “Christian Human Rights” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Samuel Moyn is Professor of Law and History at Harvard University. In Christian Human Rights University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Moyn provides a historical intervention in our understanding of h…
01:00:06  |   Sat 06 Feb 2016
Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )

Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )

Belief in magic was pervasive in Greco-Roman times, persisted through the Renaissance, and then fell off the map of intellectual respectability in the Enlightenment. What happened? Why did it become …
01:11:34  |   Tue 15 Dec 2015
Jenny Shaw, “Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference” (U of Georgia Press, 2013)

Jenny Shaw, “Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference” (U of Georgia Press, 2013)

Jenny Shaw‘s recent book Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference (University of Georgia Press, 2013) analyzes how social, religious, and ethn…
00:04:12  |   Wed 23 Sep 2015
Kattie Oxx, “The Nativist Movement in America: Religious Conflict in the Nineteenth Century” (Routledge, 2013)

Kattie Oxx, “The Nativist Movement in America: Religious Conflict in the Nineteenth Century” (Routledge, 2013)

Narratives of American history are often centered around the idea of oppression and liberation, with groups such as ethnic minorities, women, and workers struggling with, and (at least to some degree…
01:07:21  |   Mon 10 Aug 2015
Kirsteen Kim and Sebastian C. H. Kim, “A History of Korean Christianity” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

Kirsteen Kim and Sebastian C. H. Kim, “A History of Korean Christianity” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

Korea presents a fascinating chapter in the history of Christianity. For instance, the first continuous Christian community in the peninsula was founded by Koreans themselves without any missionaries…
01:09:13  |   Sun 26 Jul 2015
Denis Dragovic, “Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Denis Dragovic, “Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic Perspectives” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

The subject of statebuilding has only become a more visible issue since the end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the 1990s, the world has continued to deal with a host of probl…
01:23:15  |   Sat 20 Jun 2015
Andrew Kim, “An Introduction to Catholic Ethics Since Vatican II” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Andrew Kim, “An Introduction to Catholic Ethics Since Vatican II” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Dealing with moral issues in a fair and balanced way is never easy. This is especially true since many contemporary moral questions are of such a highly personal nature. However, in his book An Intro…
01:08:46  |   Fri 22 May 2015
Simon C. Kim, “Memory and Honor” (Liturgical Press, 2013)

Simon C. Kim, “Memory and Honor” (Liturgical Press, 2013)

The intersection between ethnic and religious identities can be both complex and rich, particularly when dealing with a community that still has deep roots in the immigrant experience. In his book, M…
01:12:54  |   Tue 05 May 2015
Paula Kane, “Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America” (UNC Press, 2013)

Paula Kane, “Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America” (UNC Press, 2013)

Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America (UNC Press, 2013) is a detailed journey into the life of Margaret Reilly, an American Irish-Catholic from New York who entered the Convent of the…
00:59:11  |   Tue 31 Mar 2015
Christopher Shannon and Christopher Blum, “The Past as Pilgrimage” (Christendom Press, 2014)

Christopher Shannon and Christopher Blum, “The Past as Pilgrimage” (Christendom Press, 2014)

Scholars studying the history of Christianity are used to writing about different Christian traditions. But what does it mean to write from within a particular Christian tradition? How can a Christia…
01:15:19  |   Mon 02 Feb 2015
Carol E. Harrison, “Romantic Catholics: France’s Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith” (Cornell UP, 2014)

Carol E. Harrison, “Romantic Catholics: France’s Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith” (Cornell UP, 2014)

Since the political left and right first arose during the French Revolution, Catholics have been categorized as either conservatives or liberals, and most Catholics of the French nineteenth century a…
00:50:32  |   Fri 23 Jan 2015
Joseph Laycock, “The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Joseph Laycock, “The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism” (Oxford UP, 2014)

In understanding a tradition what is the relationship between the ‘center’ and the ‘periphery’? How do the lived religious lives of practitioners contest or affirm authority? In The Seer of Bayside: …
01:03:49  |   Mon 19 Jan 2015
James Mace Ward, “Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia” (Cornell UP, 2013)

James Mace Ward, “Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia” (Cornell UP, 2013)

In his biography of Jozef Tiso, Catholic priest and president of independent Slovakia (1939-1944), James Ward provides a deeper understanding of a man who has been both honored and vilified since his…
01:14:07  |   Thu 25 Dec 2014
Ernest P. Young, “Ecclesiastical Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate” (Oxford UP, 2013)

Ernest P. Young, “Ecclesiastical Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the French Religious Protectorate” (Oxford UP, 2013)

In theory, Christian missionaries plan only on working in a country until an indigenous leadership can take over management of the church. Theory is one thing, but practice is quite another, as Dr. E…
01:01:29  |   Mon 08 Dec 2014
Ari Joskowicz, “The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France” (Stanford UP, 2014)

Ari Joskowicz, “The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France” (Stanford UP, 2014)

In 1873, the German scientist Rudolf Virchow declared in Parliament that liberals were locked in a Kulturkampf, a “culture war” with the forces of Catholicism, which he viewed as the chief hindrance …
01:16:20  |   Tue 15 Jul 2014
John Cornwell, “The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession” (Basic Books, 2014)

John Cornwell, “The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession” (Basic Books, 2014)

I’ve never been in a confessional box, but I’ve seen a lot of them in films. And if the depiction of them in films is in any way a reflection of popular attitudes toward confession, then I can say wi…
00:58:56  |   Tue 08 Apr 2014
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