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Religion & Spirituality
226
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, "Remembering Sufferin...
62 min
227
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta...
25 min
228
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
229
Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering...
31 min
230
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Re...
96 min
231
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
232
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
233
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
234
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
235
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
236
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
237
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
238
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
239
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
240
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
241
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
242
Magdalena Maria Turek, "Buddhist Hermits in Eas...
75 min
243
Beth M. Stovell, "Mapping Metaphorical Discours...
23 min
244
Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Chris...
52 min
245
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: ...
38 min
246
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Pa...
47 min
247
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Rel...
48 min
248
Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Tr...
An interview with Daniel C. Matt
29 min
249
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: Th...
51 min
250
Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and...
35 min