The Classical Ideas Podcast

S. Brent Rodriguez Plate is a writer, editor, public speaker, and college professor. He's interested in how sensuality affects spirituality. His writings all circle around questions of the ways sense perceptions influence ways of being religious, and how religious traditions change our ways of perceiving the world around us. In other words, religion and spirituality are rooted in the body. Along these lines, he has authored and edited fifteen books, while his essays have appeared in Salon.com, the Los Angeles Review of Books, America, Religion Dispatches, The Christian Century, The Islamic Monthly, Killing the Buddha, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other venues. Having taught at the University of Vermont and Texas Christian University, he is currently visiting associate professor at Hamilton College, NY.

Visit Dr. Brent Plate online at: https://www.sbrentplate.net

Dr. Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College where she teaches classes on religion and masculinity, Catholics in the Americas, urban religion, and religions of Latin America. She is an ethnographer and her research focuses on material culture, contemporary Catholicism, and gender and embodiment. She is the author of Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2020).

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Jonathan McFarland teaches Classical Ideas and World Religions at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri.

In this special episode, friends, family, past students, and colleagues of George tell stories about why they loved him. George founded Classical Ideas and World Religions at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri in 1989-1990 and taught the course until 2016. George passed away May 14, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri.

Dr. Sarah Shaw is a faculty member and lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has taught and published numerous works on the history and practices of Buddhism, including An Introduction to Buddhist Meditation and The Spirit of Meditation.

Order Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means from Shambhala here: https://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/sarah-shaw.html

About Dr. Laury Silvers:

The Sufi Mysteries arise out of my desire to talk about the people and places I researched as a scholar of early Islam and Sufism beyond the constraints of academic skepticism. They are my love song to these early pious folk, mystics, and Sufis as human beings—who lived in a particular historical moment with all its complications—and to my experience of Islam. I am a North American Muslim of the Sufi variety and a retired academic and activist. I received my doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook in 2002 and taught Religion and Islamic Studies at Skidmore College and the University of Toronto. I am presently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. I live in Toronto with my partner, Michael, and our dog, Billie Girl, and near my stepdaughters, their partners, and their mother.

You can find Dr. Silvers online at: https://www.llsilvers.com/

Chris Hannah is the vocalist and guitarist of the band Propagandhi.

Propagandhi "Duplicate Keys Icaro": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGf8vrXhFQY

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Alison Melnick Dyer is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at Bates College. She is an expert on gender and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently writing a book about the life of Mingyur Peldrön, an 18th century Buddhist nun and religious leader. Melnick Dyer is especially interested in the ways that privilege influences gender in religious communities. She earned her B.A. at the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.

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Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University. She's an expert on Jewish sexual ethics, and is working on a book project on sex, risk, and rabbinic text. She has written for Alma, Religion Dispatches, Feminist Studies in Religion, the Jewish Theological Seminary's newsletter Gleanings, StyleWise Blog, and State of Formation.

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Dr. Brett Krutzsch is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States and a scholar at NYU's Center for Religion and Media, where he serves as editor of The Revealer. He is the author of the 2019 book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsday, Medium, the Advocate, and he has been featured on NPR and several podcasts.

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