The Classical Ideas Podcast

https://www.bradonishi.com/ The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in  Preparing for War . Combining his own experiences in the youth...

Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and translator living in southern Greece. In addition to thirty volumes of translations of works of Greek literature, he is the author of numerous books, ranging from children's fiction to Greek history, most recently  The Making of a King , also published by the University of Chicago Press The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential S...

If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between "civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far," the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written by an American missionary in 1971. In a sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular d...

Dr. Lloyd Daniel Barba  is Assistant Professor of Religion and core faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He has published essays on the history of race and religion, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, the Sanctuary Movement, and material religion. Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh guest hosts and the topic of conversation is Barba's new book, Sowing the Seed: Mexican Pentecostal Farmw...

Dr. Elizabeth Bucar is the Director of Sacred Writes, Professor of Religion, and Dean's Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University. An expert in comparative religious ethics who has published on topics ranging from gender reassignment surgery to the global politics of modest clothing, Bucar's current book, Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, is on the ethics of religious a...

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Arson and vandalism at houses of worship. Bullying at schools and harassment at the grocery store. Political scapegoating and institutionalized discrimination. Muslims in the United States--and beyond--have faced Islamophobia in a range of forms. This ground-breaking book argues that Christians should be at the forefront of efforts to end the prejudice, discrimination, and violence, that Muslims f...

 NOTES Stacie Stukin is an arts and culture writer born and raised in Los Angeles. She has written about travel, design, women's health and food for publications like The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , National Geographic , Architectural Digest , W Magazine and  Lucky Peach . She's also the West Coast Editor of Naturally, Danny Seo Magazine.   Philip DeSlippe is a historian of American r...

Dr. Erin MacLeod's work situates itself in the perspectives of postcolonial studies, social movements, intercultural communication, migratory processes and globalization through its investigation into issues of identity, gender, culture, class, race and space/geography. She is the author of Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (NYU Press, 2014). MacLeod hol...

Dr. William "Chip" Gruen is professor of religious studies at Muhlenberg College and is Director of the Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding.  The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries (2019) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reception-of-jesus-in-the-first-three-centuries-9780567000194/ Religionwise Podcast: https://www.muhlenberg.edu/religionandculture/religionwisepodcast/

http://hardcorezen.info/ Brad Warner was born in Ohio, grew up in Africa, and lived in Japan for eleven years, where he got ordained as a Zen monk. He now resides in the Hipsterville part of Los Angeles. He began sitting zazen when he was eighteen years old under the instruction of Tim McCarthy and was made a dharma heir of Gudo Nishijima Roshi in the futuristic year 2000. He also travels the worl...

Dr. Avery-Natale specializes in race and racism, identity, social movements, and social theory. He is the author of the book, Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia.

Dean Sluyter (pronounced  slighter ) has taught meditation and led workshops and retreats since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. A grateful student of sages in several traditions, he has completed numerous retreats and pilgrimages in India, Tibet, Nepal, and the West. Dean's previous books include  Natural Meditation , winner of the 2015 Nautilus Gold A...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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/

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 .

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 Foll...

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 .

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Amanda Furiasse received her PhD in Religion and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Florida State University in 2018. Her research unfolds at the convergence of religion, health, and technology and explores how African communities use religious ritual as a mechanism to heal from violence and trauma. She is Co-Founder and Curator at the Religion, Art, and Technology Lab where she produces...