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Religion & Spirituality
276
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta...
25 min
277
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
278
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Re...
96 min
279
Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering...
31 min
280
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
281
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
282
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
283
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
284
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
285
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
286
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
287
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
288
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
289
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
290
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of...
Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...
70 min
291
Magdalena Maria Turek, "Buddhist Hermits in Eas...
75 min
292
Beth M. Stovell, "Mapping Metaphorical Discours...
23 min
293
Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Chris...
52 min
294
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Triumph of Life: ...
38 min
295
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Rel...
48 min
296
Marc Herman, "After Revelation: The Rabbinic Pa...
47 min
297
Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Tr...
An interview with Daniel C. Matt
29 min
298
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: Th...
51 min
299
Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and...
35 min
300
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, "Underworld Work: Black Atl...
57 min