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Ep 133: Charismatic Religions and the Vineyard Movement w/ Dr. Maren Freudenberg Sep 16, 2019

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Dr. Maren Freudenberg is a research associate at the Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and the associate editor of the journal Entangled Religions.

You can visit her online: https://ceres.rub.de/en/people/maren-freudenberg/

Read the article "Dynamics and Stability in Globally Expanding Charismatic Religions: The Case of the Vineyard Movement in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland" here:

https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8353/7701

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Ep 132: The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul with Dr. Alex Gardner Sep 08, 2019

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Dr. Alex Gardner is the author of the brand new biography, "The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great," out now from Snow Lion, an imprint of Shambhala Publications. Gardner is the director and Chief Editor of the Treasury of Lives, which we talk about extensively in this conversation. Gardner completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan. You can follow Gardner on Twitter at twitter.com/treasuryoflives.

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Ep 131: Tonglen Meditation w/Lama Palden Drolma Aug 25, 2019

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Lama Palden Drolma is a western teacher trained by Tibetan Buddhist masters. She the founder of Sukhasiddhi Foundation. She is a licensed psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, coach, and has studied Buddhism in the Himalayas with some of the preeminent Tibetan masters of the 20th century. She was authorized to become one of the first western lamas by Kalu Rinpoche. You can find Lama Palden's work online at https://www.LamaPalden.org

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Ep 130: The First Amendment and "Our Non-Christian Nation" w/Jay Wexler Aug 17, 2019

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Jay Wexler is a professor at the Boston University School of Law and is the author of the new book, "Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life." The book is out from Stanford University Press.

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Ep 129: Prescribing the Dharma w/Dr. Ira Helderman Aug 10, 2019

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Dr. Ira Helderman is a psychotherapist in private practice and he holds a PhD in religious studies.

Buy "Prescribing the Dharma" (University of North Carolina Press) here.

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Ep 128: The Character Gap w/Dr. Christian Miller Aug 01, 2019

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Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. Miller's research is primarily in contemporary ethics and philosophy of religion. For examples of some of his work, please see recent pieces in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, Prospect Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Michael Hyatt Magazine, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, Greater Good Magazine, Nautilus Magazine, Fathom Magazine, Institute of Art and Ideas, Character.org, and Christianity Today.

Miller's first trade book has just been released: The Character Gap: How Good Are We? from Oxford University Press. Miller has also published two academic books with Oxford – Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), and Character and Moral Psychology (2014). The edited volume from the Character Project, Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology, is out with Oxford.

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Ep 127: Gesshin Claire Greenwood on "Just Enough," Oryoki, and Japanese Cooking Jul 26, 2019

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Gesshin Claire Greenwood is the author of Bow First, Ask Questions Later and the popular blog That's So Zen. She trained in Japanese Zen monasteries, including in the kitchen, for several years before returning to the United States to obtain a master's degree in East Asian Studies. She lives in San Francisco, where she cooks, teaches meditation, and works in the mental-health field.

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https://www.gesshin.net

https://twitter.com/GesshinClaire

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Ep 126: The Epic of Gilgamesh w/Dr. Stanley Lombardo Jul 22, 2019

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Stanley Lombardo is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Kansas. His previous translations include Homer's Iliad (1997, Hackett) and Odyssey (2000, Hackett), Hesiod's Works & Days and Theogony (1993, Hackett), and Sappho, Tao Te Ching (1993, Hackett, with Stephen Addiss), Poems and Fragments (2002, Hackett), a PEN Center USA 2003 Literary Award Finalist.

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Ep 125: The Myth of Disenchantment w/ Dr. Jason Storm Jul 15, 2019

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Jason Josephson-Storm is Professor of Religion and Chair of Science and Technology Studies at Williams College in Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University in 2006 and has held visiting positions in the US, France, and Germany. He has three primary research foci: Japanese Religions, European Intellectual History, and Theory more broadly. He spoke to me on the cusp of a research leave for the 2019-2020 school year, in which he will complete his next book. You can follow him on Twitter @Ghost_Image_.

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Ep 124: The Enchanted Politics of Marianne Williamson and Jonathan Cahn w/Sam Kestenbaum Jul 11, 2019

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Sam Kestenbaum is an independent religion journalist. He writes for The New York Times and is a contributing editor and former staff writer for The Forward. He spent several years working in Asia and the Middle East, where he edited a newspaper in Sana, a website in Ramallah, and a magazine in Beijing.

In recent pieces, Sam explores enchanted politics in his profiles of of Jonathan Cahn, a doomsday prophet-pastor who says the Bible predicted the presidency of Donald Trump, and Marianne Williamson's run for the presidency in the 2020 Democratic Primary race. Sam's two most recent long pieces, titled #MAGA Church: The Doomsday Prophet Who says the Bible Predicted Trump," and "The Curious Mystical Text Behind Marianne Williamson's Presidential Bid," are both out now in the New York Times.

Read "The Curious Mystical Text Behind Marianne Williamson's Presidential Bid" here.

Read #MAGA Church: The Doomsday Prophet Who Says the Bible Predicted Trump here.

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