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Christian Studies
March 3, 2021
Uncommon Ground
Living Faithfully in a World of Difference
Timothy Keller and John Inazu
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Bestselling author Timothy Keller and legal scholar John Inazu bring together a thrilling range of artists, thinkers, and leaders to provide a guide to faithful living in a pluralistic, fractured …
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East Asian Studies
February 26, 2021
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan
Aspects of Maritime Religion
Fabio Rambelli
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
In The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion (Bloomsbury 2018), Fabio Rambelli invites various fifteen scholars of Japanese religions to reflect on a well taken-for-granted fact: although the sea …
Religion
February 26, 2021
Dangerous Religious Ideas
The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Rachel S. Mikva
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon, 2020) reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because …
Christian Studies
February 26, 2021
@ Worship
Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds
Teresa Berger
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Digital dualism, or a sharp division between online and offline activity as "virtual" or "real" has long been a feature of liturgical studies and discussions around worship gatherings for theorists and …
Indian Religions
February 25, 2021
The Mahabharata
Bibek Debroy
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins the Pandavas and the Kouravas but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma …
East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
Buddhism after Mao
Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions
Zhe Ji, Gareth Fisher, André Laliberté
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted …
Christian Studies
February 19, 2021
Eating Together, Becoming One
Thomas O'Loughlin
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
In November 2015, Pope Francis made a call to theologians to explore whether Catholic practice ought to be amended to include Christians from different churches in full participation in the …
Islamic Studies
February 19, 2021
Women and Gender in the Qur'an
Celene Ibrahim
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Women and Gender in the Qur’an (Oxford University Press in 2020), Celene Ibrahim explores key themes related to gender in the Qur’an, focusing on women, such as female sexuality …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
February 18, 2021
How God Becomes Real
Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
T. M. Luhrmann
Hosted by Jack Petranker
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence …
Christian Studies
February 17, 2021
The Logic of the Body
Retrieving Theological Psychology
Matthew A. LaPine
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Matthew A. Lapine has written a fantastic interdisciplinary study weaving together the history of ideas, contemporary psychological anthropology, and Christian theology. The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology (Lexham Press, 2020) is …
Islamic Studies
February 12, 2021
The Feeling of History
Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
Charles Hirschkind
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
Charles Hirschkind’s lyrical and majestic new book The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (University of Chicago Press, 2020) represents a profound work of retrieval that launches and executes a …
Christian Studies
February 10, 2021
Rhythm
A Theological Category
Lexi Eikelboom
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Philosophers have long approached the concept of rhythm as a significant tool for understanding the human experience, metaphysics, language, and the arts. In her new study Rhythm: A Theological Category (Oxford …
Indian Religions
February 9, 2021
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions
Knut A. Jacobsen
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (Routledge, 2020) presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South …
Celebration Studies
February 4, 2021
Festive Devils of the Americas
Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil—the devil that dances—turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions …
History
February 3, 2021
Mother of American Evangelicalism
The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears
Arlin C. Migliazzo
Hosted by Lane Davis
Arlin Migliazzo’s Mother of Modern Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears (Eerdmans, 2020) documents the life and ministry of one of the most influential teachers of twentieth-century American evangelicalism …
Christian Studies
February 2, 2021
Worship and the World to Come
Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship
Glenn Packiam
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
How does contemporary worship cultivate Christian hope? In a succinct and tightly researched volume, Worship and the World to Come: Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship (IVP Academic, 2020), the Rev. Dr …
East Asian Studies
February 1, 2021
A Fourth-Century Daoist Family
The Zhen'gao, Or Declarations of the Perfected, Volume 1
Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Hosted by Natasha Heller
The Zhen’gao, or Declarations of the Perfected is one of the most important Daoist texts, and a literary classic in its own right. The Declarations of the Perfected collects fragmentary …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Seeking Sakyamuni
South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard M. Jaffe
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the …
Islamic Studies
January 29, 2021
Muslim American City
Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit
Alisa Perkins
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The call to prayer breaks the hustle and bustle of an urban sonic landscape in unique ways. For Muslims living in Hamtramck, Michigan broadcasting the adhān was one way of …
Indian Ocean World
January 28, 2021
Imperial Mecca
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Michael Christo Low
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases …
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