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The audio feed of American Academy of Religion (AAR), the world's largest scholarly and professional association of academics, teachers, and research scholars dedicated to furthering knowledge of religions and religious institutions in all their forms and manifestations. Featuring interviews with award-winning scholars and sessions recorded during the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
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The Roots of Reproductive Injustice: A conversation with Elizabeth O'Brien
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The Sovereignty of Hope: Scholarship, Precarity, and the Future of Academic Freedom
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The Role of Religion in Today's Democratic Crises
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature with Max K. Strassfeld
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with AAR Book Award Winner Karen V. Guth
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with AAR Book Award Winner William Robert
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with William Calvo-Quirós
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May 16, 2025 |
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The RSN Podcast: In Conversation with AAR Book Award Winner Mary Dunn
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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American Secularism and Its Believers with Charles McCrary
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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A Comparative Study of the Cántico Espiritual and the Rāsa Līlā with Gloria Maité Hernández
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Metamodernism and the Future of Theory with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Art as Embodied Experience with Kathryn R. Barush
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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2023 AAR Presidential Address - Amir Hussain
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May 06, 2024 |
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Buddhist Chaplaincy in Japan with Adam Lyons
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May 06, 2024 |
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Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible with Rhiannon Graybill
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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AAR 2022 Presidential Address - Mayra Rivera
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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AAR Presidents Address - Mayra Rivera
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran with Niloofar Haeri
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Building on Jonathan Z. Smith's Study of Religion with Sam Gill
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
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May 16, 2022 |
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The Death of Children in Late Antiquity with Maria E. Doerfler
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Aztec Religion and Art of Writing with Isabel Laack
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism with Kathryn Tanner
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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AAR 2021 Presidential Address - Marla Frederick
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Competing Constructions of Religious Freedom in Allied-Occupied Japan
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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State and Religious Rituals of Religion and State among the Buryat People
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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The Little Ice Age and Devotional Practices in the Transforming Landscape of Northern India
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May 20, 2021 |
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A Counternarrative of Buddhism in Modern History with Matthew W. King
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Caretaking and Childrearing in Modern Jewish Theology with Mara Benjamin
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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The Flying House of Loreto and the Growth of Catholicism with Karin Vélez
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz on the Nepalese Hindu Goddess Svasthani
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Religious Studies and the 2020 Election: Tips for Sharing Scholarship with the Public
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Making a Match: Finding the Right Publisher for Your Work
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May 28, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - The Art of Writing AAR Proposals
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May 21, 2020 |
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2019 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum: Wade Clark Roof
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May 14, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - The 50th Anniversary of Black Theology and Black Power: Looking Back, Moving Forward
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May 07, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Conversation with Kate Bowler & Laurie Patton on Becoming a Public Intellectual
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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2019 AAR Presidential Address by Laurie Patton - “And Are We Not of Interest to Each Other?”
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Women and Publishing
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Book Panel: "Who Owns Religion?" by Laurie Louise Patton
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Death to the Term Paper! Building Better Assignments and Assessments
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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2019 AAR Award-Winning Religion Journalists: What We Covered in 2018 and What's Next
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - How to Get Published in Religious Studies Journals
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Aurora, a New E-Learning Platform: An Information Session with Co-Creator, Maren Wood
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Career Services for Non-Academic Careers
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Considering Careers and Success outside of Academy: A Book Discussion with Kelly J. Baker
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Presenting at the AAR/SBL Annual Conference Made Easy
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Housing, Health, and Equity: Government as a Site for Intersectional Justice
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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AAR 2019 - Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-Academic Careers: What’s a Faculty Member to Do?
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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The Aural Experience of the Hagia Sophia with AAR Book Award Winner Bissera Pentcheva
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Religion in the Life and Work of Langston Hughes: A Conversation with Wallace Best
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Modernity's Commitment to Reality with Nancy Levene, 2018 AAR Book Award Winner
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Conversion in America: A conversation with Lincoln Mullen
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Career Services for Nonacademic Careers (2019)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Contingency Possibilities: Career Options within and beyond the Academy
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Preparing Scholars of Religion for Nonacademic Careers: What’s a Faculty Member to Do? (2019)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Beyond the Ivory Tower: Putting Religion Expertise to Work outside the Academy
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Seeing the Myth in Human Rights with author Jenna Reinbold
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Considering the Sudanese Islamic State with Noah Salomon
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Faculty Members on Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-academic Careers
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Populism through the Lens of Religion and Race
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May 24, 2018 |
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Protecting the Vulnerable on Campus - Academic Labor, LGBTIQ Persons, and Grad Students
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May 10, 2018 |
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2017 Plenary Address: Deval Patrick
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May 03, 2018 |
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2017 Marty Forum: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Recolonizing the Academy Under a Trump Presidency
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Another Plan “A”: Religious Studies and Careers Beyond the Academy
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Lena Salaymeh on Critiques and New Directions in Studying Islamic Legal Traditions
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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Inside the State Department: Scholars Reflect on Working for the Government
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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2017 Annual Meeting Plenary: Linda Sarsour
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Reformation and Reformations
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Religion on Television: Production, Positives and Perils/Pitfalls
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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Career Services for Nonacademic Careers
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Existentialism, Authenticity, and Asceticism with Noreen Khawaja
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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2017 AAR Presidential Address - Eddie Glaude: Religion and the Most Vulnerable
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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"Goddess and God in the World": An Embodied Theological Conversation
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Black Liberation Theologies of Disability
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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Writing Religion Online: Scholars and Journalists in Conversation (SBLAAR16)
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report Roundtable Discussion
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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2016 Plenary Address: Michelle Alexander with Kelly Brown Douglas
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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Religion, Immigration, and Politics: North American and European Perspectives
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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Fatemeh Keshavarz: Unsilencing the Sacred – Poetic Conversations with the Divine
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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Reclaiming the Radical Revolutionary: Celebrating Obery Hendricks' "The Politics of Jesus"
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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2016 Presidential Address: Serene Jones on Revolutionary Love
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Father J. Bryan Hehir: 2016 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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Preparing Scholars for Nonacademic Careers: What's a Faculty Member to Do?
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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Preparing for a Nonacademic Career: What's a Scholar to Do?
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Revolutions of Love: The Politics and Flesh of Religion
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Bhrigupati Singh on Questions of Secularity, Religion, and Quality of Life in Rural India
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May 25, 2017 |
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2016 AM: Cornel West's Neglected Contribution to the Pragmatist Canon
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May 18, 2017 |
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AM 2016 Plenary Address: Julián Castro
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Apr 28, 2017 |
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AM 2016: Love and Hate in American Religion
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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AM 2016: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Critical Appraisals of Love as a Civic Value
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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AAR AM: Roundtable on Religion, Race, and the 2016 Elections
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Christians and Zoroastrians in Ancient Iran – Richard E. Payne
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Francis J. Beckwith on Reason, Faith, and Beliefmaking
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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How Repentance Became Biblical: An Interview with David Lambert
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Christianity in the Kingdom of Kongo: An Interview with Cécile Fromont
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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Mood, Emotion, and Affect in Hindu and Christian Theologies
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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Honoring Karen McCarthy Brown
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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Ziba Mir-Hosseini with Diana Eck on Islamic Law, Gender, and Women's Rights (2015 Marty Award Forum)
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Razi's Impact on the Islamic Tradition: A Conversation with Tariq Jaffer
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May 19, 2016 |
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Media Representations Of ISIS - ISIL
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May 05, 2016 |
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Religious Liberty, The Supreme Court, RFRA, And RLUIPA
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Chaplaincy, Secular Space, and the US Constitution: A Conversation with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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Tillich's Theological Legacies
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Ebola, Africa, And Beyond: An Epidemic in Religious and Public Health Perspectives
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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The Value of Religious Studies in an Age of Budget Cuts
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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Morality Without Religion: Empathy, Fairness, and Prosocial Primates
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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Anya Bernstein, Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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The Study of Religion and Responses to Terrorism: Paris, Beirut, and Beyond
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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Valuing the Study of Religion: Thomas A. Tweed 2015 AAR Presidential Address
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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“Normativity” and the Academic Study of Religion: Theology v. Religious Studies
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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Racial Injustice and Religious Response from Selma to Ferguson (2015 AAR Plenary Panel)
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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Leela Prasad, Moved by Gandhi -- A Documentary Film
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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Mark Rowe, Female Priests in Japanese Temple Buddhism
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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Brian Pennington, Natural Disaster and Divine Agency: Hindu Theodicies of Climate Change
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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SherAli Tareen, Islam, Tradition, and Democracy: The Case of the Deoband Madrasa
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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Judith Butler's Parting Ways (Columbia University Press, 2012)
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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Plenary Panel: Public Understanding of Religion and Issues of Religious Pluralism: Plenary Panel
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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What Americans Want from Immigration Reform: Insights from the PRRI/Brookings Religion Survey
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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Special Topics Forum: Remembering Robert N. Bellah (1927-2013)
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Marty Forum: Wendell Berry
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Presidential Address: John Esposito
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Plenary: A Lifetime of Learning: An Interview with Diana Eck
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Plenary Panel: Pope Francis and the State of Global Catholicism
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Plenary: Karen Armstrong: The Science of Compassion
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Andrew Quintman, The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Saint Milarepa
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May 06, 2015 |
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Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
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Apr 05, 2015 |
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Anna Sun, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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Willis Jenkins, The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity
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Feb 03, 2015 |