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EP 141: Pious Fashion and Muslim Women with Dr. Liz Bucar Dec 06, 2019

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Dr. Liz Bucar is a professor in the department of philosophy and religion and Dean's Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Bucar is the author of the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress which came out from Harvard University Press in 2017, and was issued in paperback in July 2019. Furthermore, Bucar writes and teaches about gender, sexuality, and politics in everyday religious practice. Her public scholarship has appeared in The Atlantic, The Los AngelesTimes, and Teen Vogue.

Black Friday Birthday Bonus Podcast with Dr. Liz Bucar Nov 29, 2019

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Dr. Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist who studies sexuality, gender, and moral transformation within Islamic and Christian traditions and communities. She is author of three books, including the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress (Harvard University Press, 2017). At Northeastern Bucar teaches courses on sexual ethics, Islam, the politics of the veil, and the popular comparative religion program in Spain that includes a 150-mile hike on the Camino. Her public scholarship has appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, and Teen Vogue.

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EP 140: American Jews: How 1789 Created 2019 w/Dr. Shari Rabin Nov 24, 2019

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Dr. Shari Rabin is a scholar of modern Judaism and American religions. Her first book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (New York University Press, 2017), was the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Rabin is currently an assistant professor of Jewish studies and religion at Oberlin College.

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EP 139: Brad Warner on Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen Nov 15, 2019

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Ordained as a Soto Zen priest, Brad Warner is also a punk bassist, filmmaker, and blogger. He is the founder of Angel City Zen Center in Los Angeles and the author of Hardcore Zen, Sit Down and Shut Up, and several other books about Zen Buddhism. His writing appears on SuicideGirls.com and in Lion's Roar, Tricycle, Buddhadharma, and Alternative Press. He lives in Los Angeles.

You can visit him online at https://www.hardcorezen.info

Ep 138: Undergraduate Religious Studies & Study Abroad w/ Jordan Baggs Nov 05, 2019

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Jordan Baggs is a senior at The Ohio State University. She double-majors in International Religions and Religious Studies and minors in French. She is a member of The Ohio State Marching Band.

Cycling Through the End of History with Mike Dimkich of Bad Religion (BONUS EPISODE) Nov 02, 2019

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Mike Dimkich is a guitarist in the band Bad Religion, a cyclist, and a runner.

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https://www.instagram.com/miketheserb/

Ep 137: America's Most Famous Catholic, Stephen Colbert (w/Dr. Stephanie Brehm) Oct 13, 2019

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Dr. Stephanie Brehm, author of the brand new book, America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century, out now from Fordham Press. She received her PhD from Northwestern in Religious Studies Department. Her academic work uses ethnographic and media studies methods to explore the intersection of entertainment, mass media, and religion in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American society. She is currently the Assistant Director for Academic and Strategic Initiatives in The Graduate School at Northwestern.

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EP 136: Conversion Therapy w/ Dr. Chris Babits Oct 06, 2019

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Dr. Chris Babits is an Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in History from UT-Austin in May 2019. His work examines the intersections of religion, medicine, gender, and sexuality in the modern United States. His current in-progress book project, To Cure a Sinful Nation: A History of Conversion Therapy in the United States, will tell the 140 year comprehensive history of conversion therapy practices in the United States.

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Ep 135: Dr. Amy Artman on Charismatic Christianity and the Life of Kathryn Kuhlman (Featuring Dan Jones) Sep 29, 2019

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Dr. Amy Artman teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Her research interests are in Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity, focusing on women in American religions, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman. Her other research interests include world religions, and bodies and theories of American religion. Artman's newest book is "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity," out now from Eerdsmans. You can buy the book here. You can follow Artman on Twitter here.

Guest host Dan Jones is an independent scholar in religious studies, media studies, communication, nature studies, and more. He serves as a book review editor at the journal Religious Studies Review. You can follow Dan Jones on Twitter here.

Ep134: From Suffering to Peace with Mark Coleman Sep 24, 2019

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Mark Coleman has taught meditation retreats and trainings worldwide for twenty years. He is the founder of the Mindfulness Institute and Awake in the Wild Programs. A senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, he lives in Northern Calilfornia.

Visit him online at https://www.markcoleman.org

Buy "From Suffering to Peace" here

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