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1976
Joseph Hill, "Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic...
Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...
61 min
1977
Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelica...
Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment..
44 min
1978
Patton E. Burchett, "A Genealogy of Devotion: B...
Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...
59 min
1979
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, "The Solemn League and C...
MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...
32 min
1980
Harvard S. Heath, "Confidence Amid Change: The ...
With his secretary’s coaxing over the course of nineteen years, McKay documented how he charted a steady course through institutional storms...
55 min
1981
Amira Mittermaier, "Giving to God: Islamic Char...
Mittermaier conducts a dazzling and at many times moving ethnography of an Islamic economy of giving and charity in Egypt..
53 min
1982
Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Gr...
Contributors combine narrative analysis, visualized data, and dynamic maps with exceptional ease to introduce readers to infant burial practices in late imperial China, grave and cemetery relocation in Shanghai from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and grave relocation during the contemporary period...
70 min
1983
Michael Ruse, "A Meaning to Life" (Oxford UP, 2...
Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today?
59 min
1984
Aaron Rock-Singer, "Practicing Islam in Egypt: ...
Aaron Rock-Singer focuses on three principal characters to tell us the story of the Islamic revival: Salafis, the Muslim Brothers, and state institutions...
80 min
1985
Safet HadžiMuhamedović, "Waiting for Elijah: Ti...
HadžiMuhamedović takes readers through intimate encounters and syncretic moments as he and his interlocutors wait for Elijah’s Day...
72 min
1986
Megan Bryson, “Goddess on the Frontier: Religio...
Bryson’s research explores the various social and historical contexts of the Dali region in Southwest China where the deity was shaped by local expressions of the Buddhist tradition...
56 min
1987
Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuc...
For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...
21 min
1988
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, "The Chinese Sisters of the P...
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu opens up an important new archive in Hong Kong to illuminate the complex and challenging story of the only entirely indigenous congregation of Chinese Catholic sisters...
38 min
1989
Mimi Hanaoka, "Authority and Identity in Mediev...
How do peripheral places assert the centrality of their identity?
51 min
1990
Dirk Jongkind, "An Introduction to the Greek Ne...
Is the New Testament text reliable? What do we do with textual variants? How do I use the Greek New Testament?
26 min
1991
Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: T...
A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...
52 min
1992
John W. Tweeddale, "John Owen and Hebrews: The ...
John Owen is one of the most significant seventeenth-century Protestant theologians...
36 min
1993
David Woodbridge, "Missionary Primitivism and C...
Woodbridge focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and documents the attempts made by their missionaries in China during the first half of the twentieth century...
25 min
1994
Rosalyn LaPier, "Invisible Reality: Storyteller...
Rather than “living in harmony with nature,” as stereotyped by the ecological Indian mythos, the Blackfeet people of the northern plains believed they could marshal supernatural forces to bend the nonhuman world to their will...
56 min
1995
Matthew W. King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood...
Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject...
61 min
1996
Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder, "Reinhol...
Josephson and Holder note that their “focus is Niebuhr himself and what the encounter between his own theology and his practical political experience might reveal in our contemporary situation.”
56 min
1997
Scott S. Reese, “Imperial Muslims: Islam, Commu...
Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...
61 min
1998
Heather R. White, "Reforming Sodom: Protestants...
White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching...
32 min
1999
Deonnie Moodie, "The Making of a Modern Temple ...
Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...
57 min
2000
Dirk Jongkind, "The Greek New Testament: Produc...
Ground-breaking in approach, beautiful in design, this edition has the potential to revolutionize our experience of reading the Greek New Testament...
38 min