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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 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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”
58 min
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Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Proph...
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...
54 min
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Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions:...
Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...
59 min
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Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgre...
Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...
69 min
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David L. Haberman, “Loving Stones: Making the I...
Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...
72 min
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A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part I: MA i...
In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...
59 min
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Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey...
Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....
60 min
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Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Ri...
Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...
36 min