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1801
Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and...
Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...
81 min
1802
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
1803
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
1804
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
1805
Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectu...
For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...
53 min
1806
Tim Perry, "The Theology of Benedict XVI: A Pro...
Perry's collection of essays shows how seriously protestants are taking Benedict’s claims...
28 min
1807
Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: S...
Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...
38 min
1808
David N. Gottlieb, "Second Slayings: The Bindin...
Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence exerted on Jewish memory by the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac narrative in the Book of Genesis...
63 min
1809
Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivam...
While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...
45 min
1810
M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness:...
This book brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.
62 min
1811
David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic H...
This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...
73 min
1812
Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade...
Chamedes explores how World War I galvanized the central government of the Catholic Church to craft its own variety of internationalism...
67 min
1813
Martin Nguyen, "Modern Muslim Theology: Engagin...
What precisely is “Muslim theology?”
34 min
1814
Ian J. Vaillancourt, "The Multifaceted Saviour ...
How should we understand the appearances of the king in Book V of the Hebrew Psalter?
62 min
1815
Zahra Ali, "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between N...
Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...
69 min
1816
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: I...
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology?
33 min
1817
Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World...
Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...
53 min
1818
Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the De...
Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian...
31 min
1819
Lyn Julius, "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish...
Who are the Jews from Arab countries?
38 min
1820
Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary ...
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...
44 min
1821
Deborah Eden Tull, "Relational Mindfulness" (Wi...
"Relational Mindfulness" is a guidebook on how to embody compassionate awareness in all of our relationships...
40 min
1822
Lior Sternfeld, "Between Iran and Zion: Jewish ...
Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran...
45 min
1823
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1824
Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarian...
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?
51 min
1825
Sebastian Prange, "Monsoon Islam: Trade and Fai...
Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.
54 min