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1926
Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min
1927
Patrick Schreiner, "Matthew, Disciple and Scrib...
Schreiner provides a fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew...
41 min
1928
Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American Histor...
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...
27 min
1929
Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious L...
Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...
52 min
1930
Gregg L. Frazer, "God against the Revolution: T...
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...
34 min
1931
Larry E. Morris, "A Documentary History of the ...
The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...
48 min
1932
Evdoxios Doxiadis, "State, Nationalism, and the...
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty?
48 min
1933
Matthew E. Ferris, "If One Uses It Lawfully: Th...
One of the most enduring debates within protestant theology has been the discussion about how the law of Moses relates to the Christian life...
32 min
1934
E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity an...
It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?
92 min
1935
Holly Rogers, "The Mindful Twenty-Something" (N...
Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.
53 min
1936
Arik Moran, "Kingship and Polity on the Himalay...
Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.
51 min
1937
William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Lumi...
Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...
63 min
1938
Levi McLaughlin, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolutio...
Founded in the 1930s by a group of teachers focused on educational reform, Soka Gakkai has since evolved from its grassroot origins as a movement inspired by Nichiren Buddhism...
45 min
1939
William Elison, "The Neighborhood of Gods: The ...
Elison explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members of other marginalized groups use religious icons to mark urban spaces in Mumbai...
64 min
1940
Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist M...
Jansen discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies...
59 min
1941
M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History...
Did the early Christians believe their myths?
58 min
1942
Max Oidtmann, "Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing...
Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?
72 min
1943
Daniel Veidlinger, "From Indra’s Net to Interne...
Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.
54 min
1944
Jonathan G. Kline, "Keep Up Your Biblical Greek...
Kline has published a series of books that provide one-sentence daily readings in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic...
37 min
1945
Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: ...
The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..
52 min
1946
Julia Cassaniti, "Remembering the Present: Mind...
How do you understand mindfulness?
98 min
1947
Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
1948
Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natu...
Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today...
49 min
1949
Jackson Wu, "Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: ...
What does it mean to “read Romans with Eastern eyes”?
45 min
1950
Jessica Starling, "Guardians of the Buddha’s Ho...
Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...
56 min