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Religion & Spirituality
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David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in...
32 min
252
Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness...
29 min
253
Iban Heritage and Culture in Malaysia
18 min
254
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakar...
73 min
255
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in...
52 min
256
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, "Remembering Sufferin...
62 min
257
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta...
25 min
258
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
259
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Re...
96 min
260
Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering...
31 min
261
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
262
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
263
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
264
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
265
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
266
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
267
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
268
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
269
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
270
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
271
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
272
Magdalena Maria Turek, "Buddhist Hermits in Eas...
75 min
273
Beth M. Stovell, "Mapping Metaphorical Discours...
23 min
274
Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Chris...
52 min
275
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: ...
38 min