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In this podcast for New Books Network, Francesco Quatrini discusses his latest book Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity with Crawford Gribben, professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.

Guest Post

Noah Salomon discusses his recent essay in which he pauses at the recent revolutionary events in Sudan and Lebanon to explore new openings in religious debate that have emerged.

Interview

In celebration of the publication of the first volume in Brill's new Handbook of Sufi Studies, we joined Alexander Knysh, Editor-in-Chief, for a discussion about the popularity of Sufism in the West, the relation of Sufi studies to adjacent disciplines, and the directions that the Handbook series will take in the future.

Podcast

In this podcast, Dr. Mirella Klomp, of the Protestant Theological University, the Netherlands, discusses her book Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God,, published by Brill, and talks about how the Passion has seeped out from the liturgy to the wider cultural domain, why its story remains so popular today, whether depicting Christ in conjunction with popular music and pursuits is disrespectful, and whose story the Passion really is.