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1751
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
1752
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
1753
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
1754
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
1755
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
1756
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
1757
Gerald Dawe, "The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays ...
Dawe gathers work from the 1980s to the present day that reflects upon the problem of Protestant culture in Northern Ireland. In this careful and deliberate work,..
37 min
1758
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
1759
Abraham Kuyper, "On Education" (Lexham Press, 2...
Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...
42 min
1760
Scott C. Esplin, "Return to the City of Joseph:...
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844...
60 min
1761
Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religi...
The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...
52 min
1762
Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern I...
Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....
51 min
1763
James D. Bratt, "A Christian and a Democrat: A ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.”
55 min
1764
Tad DeLay, "Against: What Does the White Evang...
DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...
63 min
1765
Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cult...
Marsili offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE)...
75 min
1766
Dr. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nun...
Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...
64 min
1767
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Et...
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?
54 min
1768
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...
46 min
1769
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A His...
Cameron offers a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century...
45 min
1770
Nijay Gupta, "Paul and the Language of Faith" (...
Faith language permeates the letters of Paul. Yet, its exact meaning is not always clear...
48 min
1771
Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and...
Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...
81 min
1772
Jerome Gellman, "The History of Evil from the M...
Gellman discusses the flourishing of analytic philosophy of religion since the war, as well as the diversity of approaches to the topic of God and evil in this era...
48 min
1773
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
1774
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jac...
Dweck tells the story of Jacob Sasportas, the Sephardic rabbi who, alone among Jewish leadership, challenged Sabbetai Zevi’s improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers...
48 min
1775
Leor Halevi, "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s G...
How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?
50 min