The Classical Ideas Podcast

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  • EP 234: Borderlands Curanderos w/Dr. Jennifer Koshatka Seman & Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

    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

    Follow Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmichelSW

    1 hr 17 min
  • EP 233: The Russian-Chinese Border w/Dr. Franck Billé

    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.

    55 min
  • EP 231: Religion, Public Health, and Media w/Dr. Amanda Furiasse

    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 multi-sensory exhibitions for the public on the relationship between faith, aesthetics, and innovation. She has worked previously at the Museum of Florida History and Loyola University Museum of Art where she has produced public programming and educational curricula for K-12 learners and the general public. She maintains an active commitment to producing educational programming, public scholarship, and research which excites and inspires people to take an active role in their worlds and explore religion's dynamic and evolving role in their lives and societies.

    Visit The Religion, Art, and Technology Lab: https://www.ratlabmuseum.org/projects

    RAT LAB Twitter: https://twitter.com/RatLabMuseum

    Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/2021-cohorts

    43 min
  • EP 230: The Rise of the Muslim Sitcom w/Dr. Kristian Petersen

    Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab (Oxford University Press in 2017), and editor of Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology (ILEX Foundation & Harvard University Press, 2021), and New Approaches to Islam in Film (Routledge, 2021). He also co-hosts the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast on the New Books Network.

    Follow Dr. Kristian Peterson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/babakristian

    Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/2021-cohorts

    1 hr 7 min
  • EP 228: Mexican American Religions w/Dr. Brett Hendrickson and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

    In this episode, Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh is in conversation with Dr. Brett Hendrickson on the book "Mexican American Religions: An Introduction (Religion in America)," out now from Routledge!

    Follow Dr. Hendrickson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbhendrickson

    Follow Dr. Sánchez-Walsh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmichelSW

    Visit Dr. Hendrickson at Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/authors/i21462-brett-hendrickson

    1 hr
  • EP 227: Meatpacking, Migration, and Faith w/Dr. Kristy Nabhan Warren & Dr. Arlene Sanchez Walsh

    Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies and a professor in the Departments of Religious Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author, most recently, of Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland, out now from the University of North Carolina Press.

    Follow Dr. Nabhan-Warren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KristyNabhan

    Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh, PhD, is a professor of religious studies and the author of the award-winning book Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society (Columbia University Press, 2003). She has authored more than a dozen articles and book chapters on the subject of Latino/a Pentecostalism, and has served as a media expert for outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and On Being with Krista Tippett, and served as an expert on Latino/a religious history for the PBS series God in America. Sánchez-Walsh's current writing projects include a textbook on Pentecostalism in America, and a monograph on Latinos/as and the prosperity gospel. Her current research is on the rise of nonbelief among Latinos/as.

    Follow Dr. Arlene Sanchez-Walsh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmichelSW

    1 hr 6 min
  • EP 226: Jewish-Christian Dialogue w/Dr. Alana Vincent

    Dr. Alana M. Vincent is Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination at the University of Chester. She works on post-Holocaust Jewish thought, Jewish-Christian dialogue, and popular culture (primarily science fiction and fantasy).

    Dr. Alana Vincent on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfAMV

    Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/

    46 min
  • EP 225: Catholic Library, Muslim Books w/NA Mansour

    N.A. Mansour is a historian and a PhD candidate at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies, where she is writing a dissertation on the transition between manuscript and print in Arabic-language contexts. She produces podcasts for different venues, co-edits Hazine.info, and works for different museums and archives. She also writes for the general public on culture, Islam and history.

    Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/2021-cohorts

    41 min

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