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Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...
49 min
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Michael Ruse, "The Problem of War: Darwinism, C...
What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?
55 min
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Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map...
The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object"...
58 min
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, "The Ideas that Mad...
Ratner-Rosenhagen offers a sweeping examination of the key ideas that have infused American society...
62 min
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Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a W...
The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...
58 min
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Matthew Bingham, "Orthodox Radicals: Baptist Id...
Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...
35 min
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Alexandre Kojève, "Atheism," trans by Jeff Love...
Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority...
75 min
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Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Pape...
Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can, at times, be considered an elusive historical figure...
78 min
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Adriaan C. Neele, "Before Jonathan Edwards: Sou...
Jonathan Edwards is by now widely recognised as America’s most important early philosopher and theologian...
35 min
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Ethan Mills, "Three Pillars of Skepticism in Cl...
The existence of skepticism in Indian Philosophy has long been neglected in favor of dogmatic positions...
64 min
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Gil Ben-Herut, "Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of D...
Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...
68 min
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Samuel Hayim Brody, "Martin Buber's Theopolitic...
Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activism...
37 min
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Stefanos Geroulanos, "Transparency in Postwar F...
In France as nowhere else, transparency was a particular type of problem...
54 min
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Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machin...
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos...
39 min
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B.R. Ambedkar, "Annihilation of Caste: The Anno...
This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...
67 min
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Andrew R. Holmes, "The Irish Presbyterian Mind:...
Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...
34 min
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Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument" (Cambridge...
Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these...
40 min
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Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxfor...
While William Penn’s name is one familiar to many Americans thanks to his founding of the Pennsylvania colony...
59 min
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Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Blac...
The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...
48 min
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Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
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Onur Ulas Ince, "Colonial Capitalism and the Di...
This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...
59 min
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Nicholas J. Moore, "Repetition in Hebrews: Plur...
s repetition always bad? The Letter to the Hebrews lies at the heart of a tradition that views repetition always negative...
23 min
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Is...
Its often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States...
74 min
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Helena Rosenblatt, "The Lost History of Liberal...
How is it that “liberalism” is a word so ubiquitous and yet we can hardly seem to agree on its meaning?
49 min
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Alan Jacobs, "The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christ...
Drawing on interventions made at the height of global war by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Simone Weil and Jacques Maritain, Jacobs shows how leading intellectuals worried about a world in crisis and how they imagined it might be set right...
47 min