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1576
Sree Padma, "Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Recon...
Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...
32 min
1577
Michael Slouber, "A Garland of Forgotten Goddes...
Slouber surveys the diversity of India's feminine divine tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess narratives from different regions....
53 min
1578
Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
1579
Jewish Architecture: A Stage for Jewish Liturgy
An interview with Steven Fine
26 min
1580
Earle H. Waugh, “Al Rashid Mosque: Building Can...
In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains...
64 min
1581
Rita D. Sherma, "Contemplative Studies in Hindu...
What counts as contemplative practices in Hinduism? What can Hindu Studies offer Contemplative Studies as a discipline?
56 min
1582
John Loughlin, "Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Chr...
This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition....
71 min
1583
Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant...
Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...
28 min
1584
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democ...
Is religion indispensable to public life?
47 min
1585
Abla Hasan, "Decoding the Egalitarianism of the...
Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?
61 min
1586
Alan Brill, " Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hin...
How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?
34 min
1587
Christopher J. Blythe, "Terrible Revolution: La...
Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...
37 min
1588
Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continen...
Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Morisato focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe’s metanoetics and Desmond’s metaxology...
50 min
1589
Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, He...
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,
45 min
1590
Alan L. Mittleman, "Does Judaism Condone Violen...
How did Biblical figures such as Moses and Joshua justify brutal levels of violence against their enemies?
58 min
1591
Fabio Rambelli, "Spirits and Animism in Contemp...
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural fabric...
51 min
1592
Nicholas H. A. Evans, "Far from the Caliph’s Ga...
Evans offers a sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam,..
44 min
1593
Joshua Esler, "Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chine...
Esler sheds light on this recent development in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism that is gaining increasing momentum in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...
59 min
1594
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God o...
Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...
57 min
1595
Aaron Koller, "Unbinding Isaac: The Significanc...
Koller provides a compelling contemporary perspective on one of the Bible's most famous and difficult texts, the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac...
57 min
1596
E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen, "Varieties of Amer...
This book captures these complex varieties of Sufism in America...
51 min
1597
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Mu...
Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...
37 min
1598
Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang, "Off the Derech:...
This book combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.,,
39 min
1599
Steven Heine, "Readings of Dōgen's 'Treasury of...
Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...
53 min
1600
Yehoshua November, "Two Worlds Exist" (Orison B...
Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America...
53 min