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Michael M. Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Net...
Knight joins the emerging subfield of literature in Islamic Studies exploring embodiment and materiality as concepts for making sense of the spatial and temporal developments of Muslim subjectivities....
45 min
1652
Richard Muller, "Grace and Freedom: William Per...
Muller argues that we need to re-think our understanding of the debate about “free will” – he prefers “free choice” – and divine sovereignty...
31 min
1653
Jon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020)
Ibn Taymiyya is one of the most prolific and influential Islamic thinkers to date, and was even the only pre-modern Muslim author cited in the 9/11 Report...
54 min
1654
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, Histor...
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable?
38 min
1655
Annapurna Garimella, “The Contemporary Hindu Te...
This book takes as its subject the multiple forms of architecture, design and sociability that Hindu spaces of worship encompass today...
41 min
1656
Danielle Haque, “Interrogating Secularism: Race...
Haque deconstructs liberal accounts of secularism through an examination of the work of authors and artists from ethnic and religious minorities...
56 min
1657
Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migrat...
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan...
76 min
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Philip Jenkins, "Fertility and Faith: The Demog...
Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world’s religions...
65 min
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Peter J. Thuesen, "Tornado God: American Religi...
Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as they experienced the uniquely destructive weather phenomenon of the tornado....
48 min
1660
Anway Mukhopadhyay, “The Authority of Female Sp...
Mukhopadhyay excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining...
35 min
1661
James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Refor...
In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...
86 min
1662
Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Bl...
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...
68 min
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Janet Jakobsen, "The Sex Obsession: Perversity ...
Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?
54 min
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Bihani Sarkar, "Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Du...
Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...
63 min
1665
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
1666
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
1667
Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
1668
Jewish Architecture: A Stage for Jewish Liturgy
An interview with Steven Fine
26 min
1669
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
1670
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
1671
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
1672
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
1673
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democ...
Is religion indispensable to public life?
47 min
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Alan Brill, " Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hin...
How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?
34 min
1675
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