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EP 171: In Memory of George Frissell Aug 03, 2020

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In this special episode, friends, family, past students, and colleagues of George tell stories about why they loved him. George founded Classical Ideas and World Religions at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri in 1989-1990 and taught the course until 2016. George passed away May 14, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri.

Ep 170: What Mindfulness Is and Where It Comes From w/Dr. Sarah Shaw Jul 27, 2020

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Dr. Sarah Shaw is a faculty member and lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has taught and published numerous works on the history and practices of Buddhism, including An Introduction to Buddhist Meditation and The Spirit of Meditation.

Order Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means from Shambhala here: https://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/sarah-shaw.html

EP 169: "The Lover and The Jealous" w/Dr. Laury Silvers Jul 20, 2020

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About Dr. Laury Silvers:

The Sufi Mysteries arise out of my desire to talk about the people and places I researched as a scholar of early Islam and Sufism beyond the constraints of academic skepticism. They are my love song to these early pious folk, mystics, and Sufis as human beings—who lived in a particular historical moment with all its complications—and to my experience of Islam. I am a North American Muslim of the Sufi variety and a retired academic and activist. I received my doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook in 2002 and taught Religion and Islamic Studies at Skidmore College and the University of Toronto. I am presently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. I live in Toronto with my partner, Michael, and our dog, Billie Girl, and near my stepdaughters, their partners, and their mother.

You can find Dr. Silvers online at: https://www.llsilvers.com/

Ep 168: Ayahuasca and Icaros w/Chris Hannah (Propagandhi) Jul 13, 2020

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Chris Hannah is the vocalist and guitarist of the band Propagandhi.

Propagandhi "Duplicate Keys Icaro": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGf8vrXhFQY

Follow Chris Hannah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/propagandhi

Follow Chris Hannah on Patreon here.

EP 167: Tibetan Buddhism, Gender, and the Life of Mingyur Peldron w/Dr. Alison Melnick Dyer Jul 03, 2020

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Alison Melnick Dyer is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at Bates College. She is an expert on gender and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently writing a book about the life of Mingyur Peldrön, an 18th century Buddhist nun and religious leader. Melnick Dyer is especially interested in the ways that privilege influences gender in religious communities. She earned her B.A. at the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.

Follow Dr. Melnick-Dyer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ALISONMELNICK

EP 166: Jewish Sexual Ethics w/Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi Jun 27, 2020

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Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University. She's an expert on Jewish sexual ethics, and is working on a book project on sex, risk, and rabbinic text. She has written for Alma, Religion Dispatches, Feminist Studies in Religion, the Jewish Theological Seminary's newsletter Gleanings, StyleWise Blog, and State of Formation.

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EP 165: "Dying to Be Normal," LGBTQ History, and The Revealer w/Dr. Brett Krutzsch Jun 23, 2020

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Dr. Brett Krutzsch is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States and a scholar at NYU's Center for Religion and Media, where he serves as editor of The Revealer. He is the author of the 2019 book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsday, Medium, the Advocate, and he has been featured on NPR and several podcasts.

Follow Dr. Brett Krutzsch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrettKrutzsch

Visit the Revealer Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7rxDzi4FmQN0GYMuxseHyS

Visit The Revealer Podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-revealer/id1497578518

EP 164: American Islam and the 2020 Election w/Dr. Sajida Jalalzai Jun 16, 2020

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Dr. Sajida Jalalzai is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is an expert in the study of North American Islam. Jalalzai earned her PhD from Columbia University, specializing in American Religions. She is currently writing a book on Muslim leadership education in three Protestant Christian seminaries in the United States and Canada: Hartford Seminary, Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto, and Claremont School of Theology.

Follow Dr. Jalalzai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SajidaJalalzai

Read Bernie Sanders has brought out the Muslim vote in ways I've never seen before.

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EP 163: Dr. Kayla Wheeler on Contemporary Black Islam and the Black Islam Syllabus Jun 09, 2020

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Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler is an assistant professor and an expert in contemporary Black Islam in the United States. Dr. Wheeler is writing a book on the history of Black Muslim fashion in the United States. The book is based on five years of research, including interviewing Black Muslim fashion designers and attending fashion shows in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Newark. Dr. Wheeler is also the creator of the Black Islam Syllabus, a free resource guide that highlights the experiences of Muslims of African descent. Her writing has been featured in Sapelo Square and The Conversation.

Visit Dr. Kayla Wheeler on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/krw18

Visit the Black Islam Syllabus here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1avhgPrW30AFjegzV9X5aPqkZUA3uGd0-BZr9_zhArtQ/edit

EP 162: Yoga, Cultural Appropriation, and Racism w/Dr. Shreena Gandhi Jun 03, 2020

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Dr. Shreena Gandhi is a multi-faceted cultural historian of religion with expertise in religion, race, the Americas and Hinduism. Trained at Swarthmore, Harvard and the University of Florida, Professor Gandhi currently teaches at Michigan State University, where she starts off the first few weeks of all her classes introducing students to the concept of structural white supremacy and why that is important for a better understanding religion in the U.S. Her research and public scholarship are on the history of yoga, and she is revising a manuscript on this using the framework of white supremacy and cultural appropriation.

You can follow her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/shreenaniketa

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