University of California Press is exhibiting at to the 2014 American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Joint Meeting. The meeting convenes November 22-25 in San Diego. Please visit us at …
Read More >Patricia Miller was interviewed on the show State of Belief with Rev. Welton Gaddy about the history of the “Scarlet ‘A’” in America—abortion. Her book, Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in …
Read More >anthrocybib, The Anthropology of Christianity Bibliographic Blog, features an interview with Matthew Engelke, author of the new UC Press book, God’s Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England. The book is a study of how religion …
Read More >American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America’s conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise …
Read More >Now that The Oprah Winfrey Show has come to an end, will Oprah’s fans find a new icon to worship? In the run-up to the show’s final episode, which aired today, media outlets …
Read More >Have you heard the good news? If you’ve been at all exposed to popular culture over the last two decades, chances are you’ve heard it—the message of Oprah’s gospel, that is. In …
Read More >The folks over at the Post Carbon Institute have created a spoof video around the fascinating, often disturbing spectacle of Oprah’s Favorite Things. The video illustrates some key points made in the …
Read More >Out of the tens of millions of pilgrims who have sought healing at Lourdes since the 19th century, there have been 66 official miracles, says Robert Scott in this UC Press podcast. …
Read More >On KQED’s Forum this week, Fred Rosenbaum spoke to Michael Krasny about his book Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area, in which he …
Read More >The American Public Media program Speaking of Faith recently rebroadcast a 2008 interview with author Mayfair Yang, in which Yang and host Krista Tippett discuss intersections of religion and state in China, …
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