Milad Milani interviews interdisciplinary expert in the study of religion Jay Johnston about her latest book Amulets in Magical Practice published by the Cambridge Elements series. We discuss, religion, religious studies, and methodologies.

*NB, Jay Johnston is Honorary Professor in (not ‘of’) Gender and Cultural Studies at USyd.

Milad Milani interviews distinguished religious studies scholar Carole Cusack about her work on Invented Religions, Sports and Religion, New Religious Movements, and much more.

Milad Milani interviews Purushottama Bilimoria (The University of Melbourne), Nathan Loewen (The University of Alabama), and Gereon Kopf (Luther College) about their latest co-edited book, Engaging Philosophies of Religion: Thinking Across Boundaries.

Milad Milani interviews Charles Barbour, expert on political theology and nineteenth century intellectual history about the legacy of Hegel and the Young Hegelians and situating Marx's philosophy.

Milad Milani interviews Sufi Studies expert Cyrus Zargar of UCF on Attar's "religion of love."

Milad Milani interviews eminent sociologist of religion, Bryan S. Turner of ACU on his lifetime work in sociology and his work on Islam.

Milad Milani interviews Helen Koukoutsis on Emily Dickinson’s relationship to religion and religion in her poetry. Helen also reads some of her own poetry (Dickinson inspired).

Milad Milani interviews Sarah Bacaller on submitting her thesis Thinking Finitude and Faith: Hegel’s Epistemic Reconciliation and her new edited book Apostate: Stories of Deconversion.

Mark Kelly interviews Milad Milani about his 2024 book, Heidegger, Ontology and the Destiny of Islam.

Milad Milani interviews Mark G. E. Kelly about his book Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity (Polity, 2022)