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Religion & Spirituality
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David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History"...
26 min
102
Mariam F. Ayad ed., "Coptic Culture and Communi...
76 min
103
Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnet...
40 min
104
Geoffrey D. Claussen, "Jewish Ethics: The Basic...
42 min
105
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythica...
An interview with Marla Segol
54 min
106
David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in...
32 min
107
Nabil Yasien Mohamed, "Ghazālī’s Epistemology: ...
77 min
108
Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness...
29 min
109
Iban Heritage and Culture in Malaysia
18 min
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Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakar...
73 min
111
Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in...
52 min
112
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, "Remembering Sufferin...
62 min
113
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta...
25 min
114
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
73 min
115
Michael Niebauer, "Four Mountains: Encountering...
31 min
116
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Re...
96 min
117
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Br...
68 min
118
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
119
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became G...
58 min
120
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex...
76 min
121
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A...
67 min
122
Religion in the Lands That Became America
A Discussion with Thomas A. Tweed
64 min
123
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the E...
55 min
124
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House:...
61 min
125
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