The Classical Ideas Podcast

Latest Episodes:

EP 241: Dr. John Modern & Alison Renna discuss "Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain May 23, 2022

Show notes

John Lardas Modernis professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs and Secularism in Antebellum America, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Alison Renna is a PhD candidate studying the history of ideas. In her dissertation, "The Symbiotic Mind: A History of Religion, Ecology, and the Microbial World," she writes about the ways that religion, social theory, philosophy, ecology, neuroscience, and psychology shaped one another through the twentieth century, beginning with the birth of information theory in the 1940s and ending with research into the human microbiome-brain connection in the 2010s.

Buy "Neuromatic" from Class 200 at the University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo105080439.html

EP 240: Awkward Rituals w/Dr. Dana Logan May 21, 2022

Show notes

Buy Awkward Rituals: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo141943025.html

EP 239: Sincerely Held w/Dr. Charles McCrary May 12, 2022

Show notes

Dr. Charles McCrary is a scholar of American religion, focusing on secularism, religious freedom, race, and science. He is the author of Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers. His work has been published in academic journals including the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religion & American Culture, and Religion. He also has written for popular outlets such as Religion & Politics, The Revealer, and The New Republic, many of which are linked in the show notes of this episode. Before coming to ASU, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.

EP 238: "Buddhish" and the History of Buddhist Medicine w/Dr. C. Pierce Salguero May 02, 2022

Show notes

C. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary humanities scholar who is fascinated by the historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and cross-cultural exchange. He has a PhD in the history of medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010) and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is the author of many books on the history and practice of Buddhism and Asian medicine. Connect with him online at piercesalguero.com.

Visit "Buddhish": http://www.beacon.org/Buddhish-P1771.aspx

EP 237: Teaching About Religion and Astronomy w/Dr. Brent Landau Apr 28, 2022

Show notes

Dr. Brent Landau is on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Religious Studies.

EP 236: Teaching About Religion in Las Vegas w/Corey Landon Wozniak Apr 19, 2022

Show notes

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/

EP 235: New Rome: The Empire in the East w/Dr. Paul Stephenson Apr 07, 2022

Show notes

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.

EP 234: Borderlands Curanderos w/Dr. Jennifer Koshatka Seman & Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh Mar 23, 2022

Show notes

Jennifer Koshatka Seman is a lecturer in history at Metropolitan State University in Denver. Her work has appeared in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses and the Journal of the West.

Visit "Borderlands Curanderos" at University of Texas Press:

https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/seman-borderlands-curanderos

Follow Dr. Jennifer Koshatka Seman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jenniferseman

Follow Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmichelSW

EP 233: The Russian-Chinese Border w/Dr. Franck Billé Mar 15, 2022

Show notes

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, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and editor of three books about East Asia, including Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity.

EP 232: Kaya Oakes on "The Defiant Middle How Women Claim Life's In-Betweens to Remake the World" Mar 02, 2022

Show notes

Visit Kaya Oakes online: https://www.oakestown.org/

Visit "On Religion with Greg Soden" at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/academic-partners/on-religion

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

The Classical Ideas Podcast

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected