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1701
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP,...
What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?
30 min
1702
Nicole Lovald, "Om Sweet Om: A Corporate Junkie...
"Om Sweet Om" is the inspiring story of how a stressed-out corporate junkie found her way to a yoga mat--and eventually, back to herself.
39 min
1703
SherAli Tareen, "Defending Muhammad in Modernit...
Tareen takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century South Asian Islam...
65 min
1704
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Thro...
Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...
47 min
1705
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1706
Jaap Doedens, "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4...
Who were the ‘sons of God’ in the book of Genesis—and what did they do?
22 min
1707
Jennifer B. Saunders, "Imagining Religious Comm...
Saunders tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders..
70 min
1708
L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
1709
Stephanie Kaza, "Green Buddhism: Practice and C...
What is Green Buddhism? Find out...
62 min
1710
John Tweeddale, "John Calvin: For a New Reforma...
This book introduces principal themes of Calvin’s life, thought and literary achievements...
29 min
1711
Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Se...
Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.
57 min
1712
Christopher J. Shepherd, "Haunted Houses and Gh...
Anyone who tries to understand the history, religion, and especially the “culture” of Southeast Asia, will soon encounter the phenomenon of animism...
40 min
1713
Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early ...
Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?
32 min
1714
Juliane Hammer, "Peaceful Families: American Mu...
How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?
47 min
1715
Shai M. Dromi, "Above the Fray: The Red Cross a...
How should we understand humanitarian NGOs?
42 min
1716
James K. Wellman, Jr., "High on God: How Megach...
In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...
46 min
1717
Bari Weiss, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (Crown...
Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world...
30 min
1718
Jay Wexler, "Our Non-Christian Nation" (Redwood...
Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all...
60 min
1719
Andrew J. Byers, "Ecclesiology and Theosis in t...
For the author of the fourth Gospel, there is neither a Christless church nor a churchless Christ...
45 min
1720
Mario T. García, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biogr...
García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...
65 min
1721
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Onew...
"Slavery in Islam" also offers a remarkable combination of intellectual and social history, anchored in layers of complex yet eminently accessible textual analysis...
68 min
1722
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Rel...
Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...
41 min
1723
Paul Lay, "Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall o...
"Providence Lost" is the most up to date and accessible narrative of this crucial period...
38 min
1724
Catherine Newell, "Destined for the Stars: Fait...
Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...
35 min
1725
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min