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1801
Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Har...
Did modern Hinduism truly emerge due to the “reforms” instigated by “progressive” colonial figures such as Rammohun Roy?
58 min
1802
Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: En...
Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...
58 min
1803
G. Clinton Godart, "Darwin, Dharma, and the Div...
Godart brings to life more than a century of ideas by examining how and why Japanese intellectuals, religious thinkers of different faiths, philosophers, biologists, journalists, activists, and ideologues engaged with evolutionary theory and religion....
23 min
1804
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1805
Christopher M. Blumhofer, "The Gospel of John a...
Blumhofer suggests the Gospel of John ought to be read as a narrative argument about how Israel might embrace its future...
43 min
1806
Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Scie...
Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”
61 min
1807
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslim American Politics ...
Curtis argues that the place of Muslim Americans in the narrative and praxis of American law, politics, rights discourse, and much are, must be questioned...
46 min
1808
Yael Shy, "What Now? Meditation for Your Twenti...
Yael Shy shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond—not react—to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them...
46 min
1809
Tweeting the Word of God: Evangelism from a "Di...
An interview with Ryan P. Burge
10 min
1810
Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Un...
Kuru offers a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries...
59 min
1811
Adrian J. Boas, "The Crusader World" (Routledge...
"The Crusader World" is a multidisciplinary survey of the current state of research in the field of crusader studies, an area of study which has become increasingly popular in recent years...
47 min
1812
Michael Daise, "Quotations in John: Studies on ...
Without question the Gospel of John makes rich use of both the Jewish scriptures and the feasts of the Jewish liturgical year...
46 min
1813
Robert P. George and R. J. Snell, "Mind, Heart,...
In the book, George and Snell offer the stories of sixteen Catholic converts, each an intellectual or leading voice in their respective fields...
47 min
1814
Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the ...
Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...
76 min
1815
Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr”...
“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj...
57 min
1816
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic...
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?
75 min
1817
Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolo...
Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...
52 min
1818
Steven D. Smith, "Pagans and Christians in the ...
What does an American political progressive in the 21st Century have in common with a pagan of ancient Rome?
65 min
1819
Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire,...
Li begins with the assertion that transnational jihadists are in fact engaged in their own form of universalism: armed transnational solidarity under conditions of American empire...
82 min
1820
Lynn Neal, "Religion in Vogue: Christianity and...
Christian imagery, symbols, and motifs have long been used and incorporated in fashion.,,
51 min
1821
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP,...
What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?
30 min
1822
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
1823
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
1824
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
1825
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