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The AAR publishes recordings of interviews with book award winners, select Annual Meeting sessions, and other podcasts related to the academic study of religion.
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Texts “of” and “after” Terror with Rhiannon Graybill
Rhiannon Graybill joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible which critically and authentically engages with many of the Hebrew’s Bible’s most disturbing narratives, while displaying remarkable loyalty to the promise of remaining interested in the question of what comes after sexual violence.
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Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran with Niloofar Haeri
Niloofar Haeri joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran which examines the everyday prayer practices of Iranian women as the basis for reflecting on the relationship between prayer and poetry.
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Building on Jonathan Z. Smith with Sam Gill
Sam Gill joins Kristian Petersen to discuss his award-winning 2021 book, The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith which builds on Smith’s work by considering the significance of Smith’s tendency towards jest and play, the centrality of incongruity to Smith’s theories of religion, and how to academically evaluate the category of “experience.”
