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Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Ren...
One of the most important trends within evangelicalism over the last half-century has been a renewal of Reformed theology...
34 min
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Anne Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watt...
The first in a two part interview about Alan Watts.
66 min
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Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Gu...
Wang's is the first study of the whole life of Guo Moruo, the ‘writer, poet, dramatist, Marxist historian, paleographer . . . revolutionist and cultural fighter.'
63 min
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Clas...
Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?
51 min
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Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" ...
Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.
60 min
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Christian Philip Peterson, "The Routledge Histo...
The collection of essays examines the varied and multifaceted scholarship surrounding the topic of peace and engages in a fruitful dialogue about the global history of peace since 1750...
51 min
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Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in...
What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths?
32 min
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Jeremy Black, "Charting the Past: The Historica...
Eighteenth-century England was a place of both the enlightenment and progress: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, philosophy, religion, and the arts...
28 min
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Bhikkhu Anālayo, "Rebirth in Early Buddhism and...
Bhikkhu Anālayo skillfully analyzes the early Buddhist doctrine of rebirth before discussing the debate around rebirth throughout Buddhist history...
40 min
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Joel Elliot Slotkin, "Sinister Aesthetics: The ...
Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?
31 min
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Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with ...
Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...
42 min
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Emma Hunter, "Political Thought and the Public ...
Hunter documents the emergence of a public sphere in Tanzania, which predated the nationalist period and allowed for a wide range of voices to debate ideas about political authority and society...
50 min
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Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformat...
Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...
39 min
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Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: T...
Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.
51 min
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Michael C. Desch, "Cult of the Irrelevant: The ...
In Cult of the Irrelevant, Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Washington and the academy across the 20th century...
24 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict betwee...
Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...
44 min
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Kellie Carter Jackson, "Force and Freedom: Blac...
"Force and Freedom" explores why for many Black abolitionists, slavery could only be obliterated through violent means.
55 min
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Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin: French Wri...
How did Rolland, and other French leftists, come to celebrate and actively promote the authoritarian regime of Joseph Stalin?
54 min
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Prakash Shah, "Western Foundations of the Caste...
The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?
58 min
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Richard Drake, "Charles Austin Beard: The Retur...
Richard Drake traces the development of Beard’s ideas in this area and his involvement in the contemporary discourse over current events...
50 min
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Whitney G. Gamble, "Christ and the Law: Antinom...
The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...
33 min
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David Colander and Craig Freedman, "Where Econo...
If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another,..
40 min
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Darren Barany, "The New Welfare Consensus: Ideo...
The 1996 repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- the New Deal-era relief program for poor women with children -- was a seminal moment in the modern history of the US welfare state...
33 min
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Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independen...
Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...
64 min