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Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The...
Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...
63 min
1577
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why...
Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?
73 min
1578
T. Campolo and B. Campolo, "Why I Left, Why I S...
Over a Thanksgiving dinner, fifty-year-old Bart Campolo announced to his famous Evangelical pastor father, Tony Campolo, that after a lifetime immersed in the Christian faith, he no longer believed in God....
66 min
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Lauren R. Kerby, "Saving History: How White Eva...
Kerby examines how white evangelicals perceive themselves and their role in American life through an analysis of the narratives told by Christian heritage tours...
57 min
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Alice Connor, "Fierce: Women of the Bible and T...
Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people...
75 min
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Naomi Appleton, "Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A St...
Appleton introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”...
44 min
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Jeffrey J. Kripal, "The Flip: Epiphanies of Min...
Kripal offers an ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars...
45 min
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Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago Católico: Making Ca...
What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?
42 min
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Francis J. Beckwith, "Never Doubt Thomas: The C...
Should you care how Protestant theologians and philosophers view a man generally regarded as of interest primarily to Catholics and as a pillar of Catholic thinking? Absolutely...
81 min
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Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Mediev...
Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...
66 min
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Nathan Carlin, "Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theologi...
Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility...
46 min
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Nyasha Junior, “Reimagining Hagar: Blackness an...
Junior sought to understand how Hagar become Black and what purposes that served...
48 min
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Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translatio...
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...
53 min
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Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition:...
Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?
50 min
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Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreadi...
Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...
36 min
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Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....
62 min
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Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: T...
Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.
65 min
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Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation The...
Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...
44 min
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Mark A. Nathan, "From the Mountains to the Citi...
Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...
90 min
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Marika Rose, "A Theology of Failure: Žižek Agai...
Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....
60 min
1596
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Liv...
The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...
78 min
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Laura S. Grillo, "An Intimate Rebuke: Female Ge...
What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?
77 min
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Mayfair Yang, "Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual ...
Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..
60 min
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Schneur Zalman Newfield, "Degrees of Separation...
Newfield presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview...
61 min
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Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, “Material Acts in ...
This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....
59 min