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The Classical Ideas Podcast
Simply stated, religion matters. Religion matters not only for personal reasons, but also for social, economic, political, and military purposes. Unfortunately, studies suggest that religious knowledge and cultural literacy for any religious tradition is either in decline or is non-existent in the United States, despite being one of the most religiously diverse nation on earth. Today, religion is implicated in nearly every major national and international issue. The public arena is awash in…
Episodes
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EP 243: Anarcho-Punk w/Dr. Edward Avery-Natale
Dr. Avery-Natale specializes in race and racism, identity, social movements, and social theory. He is the author of the book, Ethics, Politics, and…
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EP 242: The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature w/Dean Sluyter
Dean Sluyter (pronounced slighter) has taught meditation and led workshops and retreats since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to…
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EP 241: Dr. John Modern & Alison Renna discuss "Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain
John Lardas Modernis professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac…
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EP 240: Awkward Rituals w/Dr. Dana Logan
Buy Awkward Rituals: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo141943025.html
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EP 239: Sincerely Held w/Dr. Charles McCrary
Dr. Charles McCrary is a scholar of American religion, focusing on secularism, religious freedom, race, and science. He is the author of Sincerely Held…
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EP 238: "Buddhish" and the History of Buddhist Medicine w/Dr. C. Pierce Salguero
C. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary humanities scholar who is fascinated by the historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and…
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EP 237: Teaching About Religion and Astronomy w/Dr. Brent Landau
Dr. Brent Landau is on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Religious Studies.
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EP 236: Teaching About Religion in Las Vegas w/Corey Landon Wozniak
Corey Wozniak is a teacher in Las Vegas. Read "The Buddha at the Bellagio": https://therevealer.org/the-buddha-at-the-bellagio-teaching-religion-in-sin-city/
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EP 235: New Rome: The Empire in the East w/Dr. Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson is a historian of late antiquity and the author of New Rome: The Empire in the East and Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor.
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EP 234: Borderlands Curanderos w/Dr. Jennifer Koshatka Seman & Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh
Jennifer Koshatka Seman is a lecturer in history at Metropolitan State University in Denver. Her work has appeared in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses…
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EP 233: The Russian-Chinese Border w/Dr. Franck Billé
Buy the book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979482 Dr. Franck Billé is Program Director at the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies…
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EP 232: Kaya Oakes on "The Defiant Middle How Women Claim Life's In-Betweens to Remake the World"
Visit Kaya Oakes online: https://www.oakestown.org/ Visit "On Religion with Greg Soden" at New Books Network…
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EP 231: Religion, Public Health, and Media w/Dr. Amanda Furiasse
Amanda Furiasse received her PhD in Religion and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Florida State University in 2018. Her research unfolds at the…
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EP 230: The Rise of the Muslim Sitcom w/Dr. Kristian Petersen
Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Interpreting Islam…
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EP 229: Migrational Religion and Latinx Diaspora w/Dr. João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh
In this episode, Dr. João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh discuss Brazil and the book "Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx…
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EP 228: Mexican American Religions w/Dr. Brett Hendrickson and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh
In this episode, Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh is in conversation with Dr. Brett Hendrickson on the book "Mexican American Religions: An Introduction (Religion in…
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EP 227: Meatpacking, Migration, and Faith w/Dr. Kristy Nabhan Warren & Dr. Arlene Sanchez Walsh
Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies and a professor in the Departments of Religious Studies and Gender…
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EP 226: Jewish-Christian Dialogue w/Dr. Alana Vincent
Dr. Alana M. Vincent is Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination at the University of Chester. She works on post-Holocaust Jewish…
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EP 225: Catholic Library, Muslim Books w/NA Mansour
N.A. Mansour is a historian and a PhD candidate at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies, where she is writing a dissertation on the…
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EP 224: Religious Pluralism in South Africa w/Dr. Lee Scharnick-Udemans
Dr. Lee-Shae Salma Scharnick-Udemans is the Senior Researcher in the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape…
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EP 223: Muslim Religious Spaces and the Lives of Muslim College Students w/Dr. Krista Riley
Dr. Krista Melanie Riley (she/her/hers) is a pedagogical advisor at a college in Montreal, Quebec. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia…
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EP 222: Working Beyond the Academy w/Dr. Shannon Trosper Schorey
Dr. Shannon Trosper Schorey is a scholar, writer, and researcher in the tech industry. She is an expert in science and technology studies, American religious…
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EP 221: The Two Faces of Religious Freedom w/Dr. Jolyon Thomas
Jolyon Baraka Thomas (he/him/his) is assistant professor and interim graduate chair of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of…
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EP 220: Comedy and Islam w/Dr. Samah Choudhury
Dr. Samah Choudhury is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ithaca College. She speaks and writes about Islam, humor, and the politics that accompany…
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EP 219: The Young Lords w/ Dr. Jorge J. Rodriguez V
Jorge Juan Rodríguez V, the son of two Puerto Rican migrants, was raised by his mother, father, grandmother, and uncle in a small affordable housing community…
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EP 218: Weddings, Marriage, and Divorce in Islam w/Dr. Kecia Ali
Kecia Ali (Ph.D., Religion, Duke University) is Professor of Religion at Boston University, where she teaches a range of classes on Islam. Her research focuses…
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EP 217: Religion, Science, and the Brain w/Dr. Andrew Ali Aghapour
Andrew Ali Aghapour (he/him/his) is a scholar and comedian based in Durham, North Carolina. He is the Consulting Scholar of Religion and Science for the…
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EP 216: The Unraveling of Nepal's Hindu Monarchy w/Dr. Anne Mocko
Anne Mocko is Associate Professor of Asian Religions at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. She is a specialist in the religions of South Asia, and has spent…
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EP 215: Transnational Online Shinto and Educational YouTube w/Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Kaitlyn Ugoretz (she/her) is a digital anthropologist and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of…
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EP 214: Social Media and Hinduism w/Dr. Dheepa Sundaram
Dr. Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the…
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EP 213: Ecological Ethics in the Jewish Community Farming Movement w/Dr. Adrienne Krone
Dr. Adrienne Krone is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Jewish Life at Allegheny College. She has a Ph.D. in American Religion from Duke…
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EP 212: Heaven Narratives w/Dr. Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Brook Wilensky-Lanford is the author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (Grove Press, 2011), and former editor-in-chief of the online magazine…
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EP 211: Paid Family Leave and the Catholic Church w/Dr. Annie Selak
Annie Selak (she/her/hers) is a systematic theologian, specializing in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston…
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EP 210: Muslim Women and French Anti-Separatism w/Sahar Ahmed
Sahar Ahmed is a PhD candidate in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin. Her research examines and offers a reinterpretation of the right to freedom of…
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EP 209: Muslim Philanthropy and Pillars Fund w/Kashif Shaikh
Kashif Shaikh is the Co-Founder and President of Pillars Fund. In 2010, Kashif and a small group of Muslim philanthropists founded Pillars to strategically…
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EP 208: Medieval Queer Magic w/Kersti Francis
Kersti Francis is a writer, editor, and medievalist based in Tucson and Los Angeles. Francis' works at the intersections between religion, magic, gender, and…
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EP 207: A conversation w/ Dr. Felipe Hinojosa and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh
Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh: https://twitter.com/AmichelSW Guest host Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh, Ph.D., is a professor of religious studies and the author of the…
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EP 206: How God Becomes Real w/Dr. Tanya Luhrman and Dr. Brian Carwana
Dr. Tanya Luhrmann is the author of "How God Becomes Real" and is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. She is a medical…
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EP 205: Texts After Terror w/Dr. Rhiannon Graybill
Dr. Rhiannon Graybill is Associate Professor of religious studies at Rhodes College and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible whose work brings together biblical texts…
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EP204: Roman Catholic Womanpriests w/Dr. Jill Peterfeso
Download "Womanpriest" for free as an eBook from Fordham Press here: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823288298/womanpriest/ Jill M. Peterfeso is Associate…
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EP 203: Early Christian Magic w/Dr. Shaily Patel
Dr. Shaily Patel is Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech. She is an expert on ancient magic, early Christian literature, and ideological…
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EP 202: Himalayan Histories w/Swati Chawla
Swati Chawla is assistant professor at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University and a Ph.D. candidate in history at the…
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EP201: Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and Gorampa Sonam Senge w/Dr. Constance Kassor
Dr. Constance Kassor is an assistant professor of religious studies at Lawrence University, where she teaches courses on Buddhist thought and Asian religious…
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EP200: Early Christian Deathscapes w/Sarah F. Porter
Sarah F. Porter (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University with a concentration in New Testament /…
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EP 199: Trafficking Hadassah and Book of Esther w/Dr. Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar (she/her/hers) is an adjunct professor at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) in the Religious Studies Department. She received her Ph.D…
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EP 198: Protestant Sex Scandals w/Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya
Suzanna Krivulskaya (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of History at California State University San Marcos, where she teaches courses in U.S. and digital…
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EP 197: We Who Must Die Demand a Miracle and MCC San Francisco w/Dr. Lynne Gerber
Dr. Lynne Gerber (she/her/hers) is an independent scholar. She is the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual-Reorientation in…
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EP 196: Sacred Sites, Indigenous History, and Spanish Colonialism w/Abel Gomez
Abel R. Gómez (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religion Department and earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies from the Women's and Gender Studies…
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EP 195: Black religion, Music, and Friendship w/Ambre Dromgoole
Ambre Dromgoole (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. She graduated…
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EP 194: Your Life is Meditation w/Mark Van Buren
Mark Van Buren is a Mindful Living Trainer, yoga/meditation instructor, personal trainer, and musician, that has been promoting health and wellness for years…
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EP 193: A Life in Buddhism w/Gary Gach
Gary Gach is the author of Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism. Follow Gary Gach's work online at: https://linktr.ee/GaryGach Follow Classical…
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EP 192: Ripples in the Universe, QANON, and January 6 w/Dr. Susannah Crockford
Dr. Susannah Crockford is Crockford, an anthropologist with interests in spirituality, politics, ecology, economics, and survivalism. Follow Dr. Crockford on…
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EP 191: Affect Theory and Religion w/Dr. Donovan Schaefer and Dr. Brian Carwana
Dr. Donovan Schaefer is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Schaefer is the author of Religious…
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EP 190: "Abusing Religion" w/Dr. Megan Goodwin
Megan Goodwin, PhD, is Program Director for Sacred Writes, a Luce-funded project promoting public scholarship on religion hosted by Northeastern University…
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EP 189: The Lives of Objects w/Dr. Maia Kotrosits
Dr. Maia Kotrosits is assistant professor of religion at Denison University and is the author of the book "The Lives of Objects." Follow Dr. Maia Kotrosits on…
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EP 188: Hope in a Secular Age w/Dr. David Newheiser
Dr. David Newheiser is a research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. His first book, Hope in a…
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EP 187: The Saint Makers w/Joe Drape
Joe Drape is an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Times. He is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers Our Boys: A Perfect…
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EP 186: Awakening My Heart w/Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller is an editor at Lion's Roar magazine and is the author of "Awakening My Heart: Essays, Articles and Interviews on the Buddhist Life," out now…
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EP 185: Stories from Baltimore 21217 w/Karim Amin
Karim Amin is an Educator and Arts Activist from West Baltimore. Karim is currently a graduate degree candidate pursuing a Masters in Public Administration at…
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EP 184: Mural Art and Latinx Islam w/Dr. Harold Morales
Dr. Harold D. Morales is responsible for developing the center's vision, recruiting committee members, organizing and overseeing committee work, and speak…