Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Et...
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?
54 min
1552
Nijay Gupta, "Paul and the Language of Faith" (...
Faith language permeates the letters of Paul. Yet, its exact meaning is not always clear...
48 min
1553
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A His...
Cameron offers a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century...
45 min
1554
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...
46 min
1555
Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and...
Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...
81 min
1556
Jerome Gellman, "The History of Evil from the M...
Gellman discusses the flourishing of analytic philosophy of religion since the war, as well as the diversity of approaches to the topic of God and evil in this era...
48 min
1557
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
1558
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jac...
Dweck tells the story of Jacob Sasportas, the Sephardic rabbi who, alone among Jewish leadership, challenged Sabbetai Zevi’s improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers...
48 min
1559
Leor Halevi, "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s G...
How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?
50 min
1560
Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectu...
For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...
53 min
1561
Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: S...
Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...
38 min
1562
David N. Gottlieb, "Second Slayings: The Bindin...
Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence exerted on Jewish memory by the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac narrative in the Book of Genesis...
63 min
1563
Tim Perry, "The Theology of Benedict XVI: A Pro...
Perry's collection of essays shows how seriously protestants are taking Benedict’s claims...
28 min
1564
Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivam...
While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...
45 min
1565
M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness:...
This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.
62 min
1566
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...
74 min
1567
Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade...
Chamedes explores how World War I galvanized the central government of the Catholic Church to craft its own variety of internationalism...
67 min
1568
Martin Nguyen, "Modern Muslim Theology: Engagin...
What precisely is “Muslim theology?”
34 min
1569
Ian J. Vaillancourt, "The Multifaceted Saviour ...
How should we understand the appearances of the king in Book V of the Hebrew Psalter?
62 min
1570
Zahra Ali, "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between N...
Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...
69 min
1571
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: I...
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology?
33 min
1572
Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World...
Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...
53 min
1573
Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the De...
Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian...
31 min
1574
Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish...
Who are the Jews from Arab countries?
38 min
1575
Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary ...
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...