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1726
John Stratton Hawley, “Krishna's Playground: Vr...
What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?
51 min
1727
Gabriel Said Reynolds, "Allah: God in the Qur’a...
Reynolds argues that contrary to many scholarly and popular claims about the God of the Qur’an as either merciful or vengeful, God is in fact both...
49 min
1728
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1729
Deborah Dash Moore, "Jewish New York: The Remar...
"Jewish New York" reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups...
43 min
1730
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...
52 min
1731
Monique A. Bedasse, "Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians,...
Bedasse examines Rastafarian reparation to Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s...
58 min
1732
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (C...
Formichi helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities...
66 min
1733
Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, "None...
In recent decades, the number of Americans and Canadians who identify has nonreligious has risen considerably..
59 min
1734
Vanessa Cook, "Spiritual Socialists: Religion a...
Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...
50 min
1735
Yassir Morsi, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De...
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...
74 min
1736
Johan Elverskog, "The Buddha’s Footprint: An En...
Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...
86 min
1737
Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis...
Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity...
53 min
1738
C. M. Driscoll and M. R. Miller, “Method as Ide...
Whatever strategy one uses there is a relationship between one’s social identity and the categories shaping theoretical and methodological assumptions...
74 min
1739
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Mar...
Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....
53 min
1740
Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bu...
Quammen situates the Bundy standoff within the long and convoluted history of Mormon migration into the American West—and provides an exciting new take on religion in modern American politics...
47 min
1741
Brendan McGeever, "Antisemitism and the Russian...
McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...
47 min
1742
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women...
What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?
63 min
1743
Sarah Schneewind, "Shrines to Living Men in the...
What recourse did you have in Ming China if your very excellent local official was leaving your area and moving on to a new jurisdiction? You could try to block his path, you could wail and tear your hair out – or you could house an image of him in a temple, make offerings before it, and create a ‘living shrine.’
53 min
1744
John D. Caputo, "Hoping Against Hope" (Fortress...
Caputo’s conversation partners in this volume include Lyotard, Derrida, and Hegel, but also earlier versions of himself:...
73 min
1745
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Dialogue and Doxogr...
This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu
57 min
1746
Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in M...
McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...
69 min
1747
Kevin McGrath, "Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic ...
McGrath examines the complex and enigmatic Vyāsa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and a key character in the very epic he composes...
53 min
1748
Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion ...
Rocklin draws on colonial archives and ethnographic work in this pioneering examination of the realities of indentured workers in colonial Trinidad...
53 min
1749
Maria Rashid, "Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affe...
Rashid conducts an intimate and layered ethnography of militarism and death in Pakistan, with a focus on the lives, aspirations, and tragedies of soldiers and their families in rural Punjab...
66 min
1750
A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton of the Oxfo...
Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.
46 min