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1726
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
1727
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
1728
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
1729
Alastair J. Roberts, "Echoes of Exodus: Tracing...
The exodus—the story of God leading his chosen people out of slavery in Egypt—stands as a pivotal event in the Old Testament...
31 min
1730
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Cla...
The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...
76 min
1731
Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...
29 min
1732
Candi K. Cann, "Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Pe...
"Dying to Eat" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the role of food in rituals surrounding death and dying from around the globe...
50 min
1733
Kevin W. Fogg, "Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution"...
Fogg analyzes the religious aspirations that motivated many Muslim revolutionaries to fight the return of Dutch after the Second World War and envision a new nation-state...
49 min
1734
Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" ...
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?
50 min
1735
Pehr Granqvist, "Attachment in Religion and Spi...
Granqvist focuses on the connections between early caregiving experiences, attachment patterns, and individual differences in religious cognition, experience, and behavior...
48 min
1736
Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and the Sun in India...
Why are the myths of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa framed by myths glorifying the Sun, Sūrya?
67 min
1737
Mara Benjamin, "The Obligated Self: Maternal Su...
Benjamin contends that the physical and psychological work of caring for children presents theologically fruitful but largely unexplored terrain for feminists...
74 min
1738
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experienc...
Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...
63 min
1739
Matt Tomlinson, "God is Samoan: Dialogues Betwe...
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God...
49 min
1740
Derek R. Sainsbury, "Storming the Nation: The U...
Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....
41 min
1741
Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan G...
Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...
66 min
1742
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of Eisler’s teachers in Vienna and a major influence on his thought...
53 min
1743
Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History ...
Ryrie offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism...
64 min
1744
Philip A. Craig, "The Bond of Grace and Duty in...
Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...
34 min
1745
Hilde Løvdal Stephens, "Family Matters: James D...
Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...
33 min
1746
Joe Geisner, "Writing Mormon History: Historian...
In this book, well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have influenced our understanding of the Mormon past...
76 min
1747
Imre Salusinszky, "The Hilton Bombing: Evan Ped...
In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel...
70 min
1748
Ionut Moise, "Salvation in Indian Philosophy: P...
Moise offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika...
45 min
1749
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experienc...
Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...
63 min
1750
G. K. Beale and Benjamin L. Gladd, "The Story R...
The authors explore each New Testament book in light of the broad history of redemption, emphasizing the biblical-theological themes of each New Testament book...
15 min