New Books Network Podcast
I am the host of the World Christianity podcast channel, where I shed light on recent book publications and interview scholars of the emerging field of World Christianity. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to do a podcast interview about your recent publication.
Interview with Hans Harmakaputra
author of Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia (Edinburgh University Press, 2026)
Interview with Philip Wingeier-Rayo
author of John Wesley and the Origins of Methodist Missions (Abingdon Press, 2025)
Interview with Jonathan Seitz
author of Protestants Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024)
Interview with
Justin Tse
author of Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024)
Interview with
Anna Marie Busse Berger and Henry Spiller
editors of Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago (University of California Press, 2025)
Interview with
Deanna Womack
author of Re-inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia
Interview with Briana Wong
author of Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience
(Penn State University Press, 2023)
Interview with
Gina Zurlo
author of Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Interview with Michèle Miller Sigg
author of Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France
(Baylor University Press, 2022)
Interview with
Chris Suh
author of The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Interview with Chandra Mallampalli
author of South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Interview with
Kyama Mugambi
author of A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya (Baylor University Press, 2020)
Interview with
Jason Bruner
author of How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students (Palgrave Macmillian, 2022)
Interview with
Mitri Raheb
author of The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire (Baylor University Press, 2021)
Interview with Emma Wild-Wood
author of The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935 (James Currey Press, 2020)
Interview with
Gina Zurlo
author of Global Christianity: A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
(Zondervan Academic, 2022)
Interview with
Helen Jin Kim
author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Interview with
James Taneti
author of Telugu Christians: A History (Fortress Press, 2022)
Interview with
João Chaves
author of The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism
(Mercer University Press, 2022)
Interview with
Aminta Arrington
author of Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China (Penn State University Press, 2020)
Interview with
Afe Adogame
author of Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
Interview with Yonatan N. Gez, Yvan Droz, and Jeanne Rey
author of Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
Interview with
Retief Muller
author of Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Interview with
Tim Hartman
author of Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity (Langham Publishing, 2021)
Interview with
Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood
author of Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley (Brill, 2020)
Interview with
Dyron B. Daughrity
author of A Worldly Christian: The Life and Times of Stephen Neill (Lutterworth Press, 2021)
Interview with
David C. Kirkpatrick
author of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Interview with
Devaka Premawardhana
author of Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique (Langham Publishing, 2021)
Interview with
Paul Michael Hedges
author of
Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies (University of California Press, 2021)
Interview with
Daryl R. Ireland
author of John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man (Baylor University Press, 2020)
Interview with
Deanna Ferree Womack
author of Protestants, Gender, and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
Interview with
Jason Bruner
author of Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There is a Global War Against Their Faith (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
Interview with
Martha Theodora Frederiks and Dorottya Nagy
author of
World Christianity: Methodological Considerations (Brill, 2021)
Interview with
K. Kale Yu
author of
Understanding Korean Christianity: Grassroot Perspectives on Causes, Culture, and Responses (Pickwick, 2019)