Considering the Sudanese Islamic State with Noah Salomon

Charles McCrary, assistant professor of religious studies at Eckerd College and winner of the 2023 Book Award in Analytical-Descriptive Studies from the American Academy of Religion, discusses his book Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers.

Megan Brankley Abbas talks about her award-winning book Whose Islam?: The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia which discusses the question of authority in Islamic studies, both religious and academic.

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.”