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Religion & Faith
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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Middle Eastern Studies
March 3, 2021
Islam, réforme et colonisation
une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962)
Hosted by Julian Weideman
Islam, réforme et colonisation: une histoire de l'ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962) by Augustin Jomier is an important study of colonial North Africa, Islamic reform, and Ibadi Islam. Jomier, a professor …
Christian Studies
March 2, 2021
Duty and Destiny
The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill
Gary Scott Smith
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Though Churchill harbored intellectual doubts about Christianity throughout his life, he nevertheless valued it greatly and drew on its resources, especially in the crucible of war. In Duty and Destiny …
Indian Religions
March 2, 2021
Yoga in Jainism
Christopher Chapple
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Jaina Studies is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field of inquiry for scholars of Indian religion and philosophy. In Jainism, "yoga" carries many meanings, and this book explores the …
Israel Studies
March 2, 2021
Zion
The Israeli Diaspora in Europe
David Stavrou
Hosted by Yakir Englander
The meaning of being an immigrant has changed significantly in the 21st century. The internet, social media and networks, cost of travels, homeland products of food that one can find …
Islamic Studies
February 26, 2021
Terror Epidemics
Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies …
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 …
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 …
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 …
SSEAC Stories
February 25, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between
A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Hosted by Natali Pearson
As a Thai-Australian woman artist, Phaptawan Suwannakudt has long battled prejudice and discrimination relating to her gender. This disappointment with society’s dictates features at the heart of Phaptawan’s artistic practice …
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 24, 2021
God's Cold Warrior
The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles
John D. Wilsey
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of …
Indian Religions
February 24, 2021
Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
Michale P. Brunner
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Michael P. Brunner's Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Palgrave, 2020) explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a …
Christian Studies
February 23, 2021
Yours, Till Heaven
The Untold Love Story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon
Ray Rhodes Jr.
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Enter the remarkable untold love story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon. Charles Spurgeon is esteemed for his writing, preaching, and passion for the Lord. But behind the great man was …
Jewish Studies
February 23, 2021
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on …
Popular Culture
February 23, 2021
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!
Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
Robert L. Stone
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended …
Political Science
February 22, 2021
Separate But Faithful
The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture
Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we understand the nuances of efforts by Christian conservatives to affect American law – and evaluate their success? What lessons do they hold for other social movements? Dr …
Jewish Studies
February 19, 2021
They Left It All Behind
Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children
Hannah Hahn
Hosted by Robert Snyder
Hannah Hahn’s They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children (Roman and Littlefield, 2020) explores the impact of conflict, social change …
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 …
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