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Religion & Spirituality
1501
Ari Y. Kelman, "Shout to the Lord: Making Worsh...
An interview with Ari Y. Kelman
43 min
1502
Tanya Lurhmann, "How God Becomes Real: Kindling...
An interview with Tanya Lurhmann
56 min
1503
Shaul Magid, "Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Ha...
An interview with Shaul Magid
51 min
1504
Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Fait...
Interview with Sean Anthony
66 min
1505
Mark James Porter, "Ecologies of Resonance in C...
An interview with Mark J. Porter
42 min
1506
Monika Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, W...
An interview with Monika Black
55 min
1507
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, "Ars Vitae: The Fate of ...
An interview with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
67 min
1508
Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam ...
An interview with Justine Howe
37 min
1509
Timothy Larsen, "The Oxford Handbook of Christm...
An interview with Timothy Larsen
43 min
1510
Ronald Hutton, "The Triumph of the Moon: A Hist...
An interview with Ronald Hutton
26 min
1511
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist...
An interview with Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck
59 min
1512
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History o...
An interview with Jeff Levin
51 min
1513
David Henig, "Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday I...
An interview with David Henig
55 min
1514
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1515
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook...
Maharaj offers first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy...
48 min
1516
Amanda J. Lucia, "White Utopias: The Religious ...
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world...
52 min
1517
E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Cl...
Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided...
35 min
1518
M. T. Mulder and G. Marti, "The Glass Church: R...
Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..
53 min
1519
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Relig...
Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...
57 min
1520
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...
49 min
1521
Jonathan Boyarin, "Yeshiva Days: Learning on th...
Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...
62 min
1522
S. Newcombe and K. O'Brien-Kop, "Routledge Hand...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques...
46 min
1523
Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical...
Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....
51 min
1524
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1525
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min