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Religion & Spirituality
1826
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
1827
Tweeting the Word of God: Evangelism from a "Di...
An interview with Ryan P. Burge
10 min
1828
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
1829
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
1830
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
1831
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
1832
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
1833
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
1834
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic...
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?
75 min
1835
Salman Sayyid, "Recalling the Caliphate: Decolo...
Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...
52 min
1836
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
1837
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
1838
Lynn Neal, "Religion in Vogue: Christianity and...
Christian imagery, symbols, and motifs have long been used and incorporated in fashion.,,
51 min
1839
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP,...
What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?
30 min
1840
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
1841
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
1842
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
1843
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
1844
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1845
Jaap Doedens, "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4...
Who were the ‘sons of God’ in the book of Genesis—and what did they do?
22 min
1846
L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
1847
Stephanie Kaza, "Green Buddhism: Practice and C...
What is Green Buddhism? Find out...
62 min
1848
Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Se...
Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.
57 min
1849
John Tweeddale, "John Calvin: For a New Reforma...
This book introduces principal themes of Calvin’s life, thought and literary achievements...
29 min
1850
Christopher J. Shepherd, "Haunted Houses and Gh...
Anyone who tries to understand the history, religion, and especially the “culture” of Southeast Asia, will soon encounter the phenomenon of animism...
40 min