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Thinking About Religion
Your window on cutting-edge scholarship on the religions
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S1 E9 Benjamin Sommer on God’s Bodies
Could a human being literally shake hands with God? If so, then God must have at least one hand – and one would think, not only a hand, but a complete humanoid body. While sophisticates have long scorned the idea that God could in any sense have a body, as Dr. Benjamin Sommer points out...
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S1 E8 Graham Oppy on Atheism and Agnosticism
Are you a theist, an atheist, an agnostic, or an innocent?
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S1 E7 Jonathan A. C. Brown on the Qur’an and the Hadith
When many of us think of a scripture, we think of the Protestant Christian Bible: a well-defined, reasonably small library of writings which can be printed in a single, thick volume. . It’s not that simple in Islam. While there is the Qur’an, there is also an enormous body of reports about...
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S1 E6 Donald Lopez on A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet
In 1712 Italian Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri set off an dangerous mission to Tibet, his goal to win souls to Roman Catholic Christianity. But his plan was not to merely preach the gospel, or to combine preaching and charitable works. He would learn Tibetan, familiarize himself with Tibetan...
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S1 E4 Wendy Doniger on Hinduism
Dr. Wendy Doniger’s On Hinduism is a sort of captstone on an epic career exploring Hindu literature, religion, and history. In this conversation we discuss a number of themes from the book, including her own religious background, common misconceptions about Hinduism, the caste system…
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S1 E3 Amy-Jill Levine on The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Typically religious scholars will comment on the scriptures of their own religion. But sometimes, bold scholars will go where others fear to tread, commenting the scriptures of another religion. The situation is all the more sensitive when historically, one religion branched off of the other.…
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S1 E2: Richard Weikart on Hitler’s Religion
The ghost of Hitler has been drafted into the culture wars – for the other team. Christian leaders have suggested that Nazism was a variety of “atheist extremism.” Atheist champion Richard Dawkins retorted that “Hitler was a Roman Catholic.“ Is either side correct? After analyzing thousands of...
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S1 E1: David McMahon on Buddhist Modernism
Before recent times, most Buddhists, and even most Buddhist monks, did not meditate. Yet today, many consider sitting meditation to be the essence of Buddhist practice. How does the Buddhism one encounters in the religious marketplace today differ from what was taught by its ancient Indian…
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S1 E5 – Andrei Buckareff on Alternative Concepts of God
Dr. Andrei Buckareff and some of his co-authors are convinced that in recent times philosophers of religion have been too traditional, focusing too much of their attention on an understanding of God as a perfect creator of the cosmos who is distinct from that cosmos, someone who created it out of...
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