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New Books in Religion

Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

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Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an accou... Read more

12 Aug 2023

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Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)

The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which argued that... Read more

11 Aug 2023

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