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Ep 113: Religion, Food, and Eating with Dr. Nora Rubel and Dr. Ben Zeller May 12, 2019

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Dr. Nora Rubel is the Jane and Alan Batkin Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester in New York. Dr. Ben Zeller is associate professor of religion at Lake Forest College in Illinois. They are co-editors of the book "Religion, Food, and Eating in North America" from Columbia University Press (2014).

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Ep 112: Eric Ripert on Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics May 05, 2019

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Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District, author of the autobiography "32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line" from Random House, numerous cookbooks, and host of the television series AVEC Eric.

Buy Eric Ripert's books: Eric Ripert Books

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Visit Le Bernardin: https://www.le-bernardin.com/

Ep 111: Early American Yoga w/Philip Deslippe May 02, 2019

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Philip Deslippe is a historian of American religion with a background in American Studies and literature. His research focuses on Asian, metaphysical, and marginal religions in modern America. Philip is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and writing a dissertation on the early history of yoga in the United States from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

https://www.yogicstudies.com/courses

Find Philip Deslippe online at: https://philipdeslippe.com/

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Ep 110: Exorcism w/Dr. Kate Kingsbury and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Apr 25, 2019

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Dr. Kate Kingsbury obtained her doctorate in Anthropology from Oxford University. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta where she teaches anthropology courses such as Introduction to Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion and Ethnographic Field Methods.

Kate Kingsbury on Academia.edu

Follow Kate Kingsbury on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfKingsbury

Dr. Andrew Chesnut earned his Ph.D degree in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and joined the History Department faculty at the University of Houston in 1997. He quickly became an internationally recognized expert on Latin American religious history. Professor Chesnut was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at VCU in 2008. Professor Chesnut's early work, Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (Rutgers University Press, 1997), traces the meteoric rise of Pentecostalism among the popular classes in Brazil following the disestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church. His second book, Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003) focuses on the three groups that have prospered most in the region's pluralist landscape, Protestant Pentecostalism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and African disasporic religions (e.g., Brazilian Candomble and Haitian Vodou). Professor Chesnut's most recent book is Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012). It is the first in-depth study of the Mexican folk saint in English and has received widespread media coverage.

Follow Dr. Andrew Chesnut on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AndrewChesnut1

Visit: https://skeletonsaint.com/

Buy Devoted to Death by Andrew Chesnut:

https://www.amazon.com/Devoted-Death-Santa-Muerte-Skeleton/dp/0190633336/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Devoted+to+Death%3A+Santa+Muerte%2C+the+Skeleton+Saint&qid=1553112579&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Further reading on exorcism:

Driving Out the Devil from Catholic Herald

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/04/exorcising-the-demons-of-africa/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/08/why-is-exorcism-all-the-rage/

Ep 109: Dr. Ann Gleig and Buddhism Beyond Modernity Apr 23, 2019

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Dr. Ann Gleig is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida. She is co-editor of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism and has published widely on contemporary Buddhism. She is the author of "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity," from Yale University Press.

Buy the book: American Dharma

Follow Dr. Ann Gleig on Twitter: https://twitter.com/agleig

Ep 108: Koans with Corey Ichigen Hess Apr 17, 2019

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Corey Ichigen Hess is an ordained Zen monk and body therapist. He lived a monastic life for many years at Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan. He teaches meditation classes and works with individual clients doing private embodiment process coaching sessions, Sourcepoint Therapy®, Structural Integration®, and Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy at his home on Whidbey Island in Langley, Washington.

Here are the links mentioned in the show:

Zen Embodiment Blog

Corey Hess Body Therapy

Ep 107: Should you do a PhD? with Michael Van Hartingsveldt Apr 14, 2019

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Michael Vanhartingsveldt (featured in episode 47 & 92) is a contributing columnist at Buddhistdoor Global. He works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He did his masters in East Asian Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, and he also works as a lecturer for the Japan Foundation.

Link to episode #37 from "The Way Of Improvement Leads Home" podcast episode mentioned in the introduction can be found here: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-way-of-improvement-leads-home?selected=ADL9037171567

Ep 106: Dr. Rachel Lindsey on "Communion of Shadows" and Arch City Religion Apr 10, 2019

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Dr. Rachel Lindsey is Assistant Professor in Saint Louis University's Department of Theological Studies. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in American Religion from Princeton University, and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Missouri State University. She is the author of Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth Century America from University of North Carolina Press. We discussed Communion of Shadows and her fantastic projects, Lived Religion in the Digital Age and Arch City Religion. You can find Dr. Lindsey's projects at archcityreligion.org and religioninplace.org.

Follow Rachel Lindsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmclindsey

Ep 105: Teaching College Religious Studies w/Dr. Chris Jones Apr 05, 2019

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Dr. Chris Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts from Oklahoma Baptist University, a Master of Theology from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and a PhD from Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the sole religious studies professor at Washburn University.

You can find his spectacular Twitter presence here:

https://twitter.com/ProfChrisMJones

You can find his professional website here:

https://hcommons.org/members/profchrismjones/

Ep 104: Myth of Divine Chosenness w/Dr. Michael Coogan Apr 02, 2019

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Dr. Michael Coogan is lecturer on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School and the director of publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum. He is the author of God and Sex, The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, and numerous textbooks on the Old Testament. He joined me on the phone to talk about his brand new book, God's Favorites: Judaism, Christianity, and the Myth of Divine Chosenness, out from Beacon Press.

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