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Interview Archives: Religion
Wednesday June 06, 2012, 10:06 AM
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Behavior • Politics • Religion
Monday August 15, 2011, 11:06 AM
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
Robin Wright, Award-Winning Journalist; Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Politics • Religion • Middle East
Wednesday July 20, 2011, 11:06 AM
Heaven in the American Imagination
Gary Scott Smith, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of History, Grove City College
Host: Celeste Quinn
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Categories: History • United States history • Religion • Spirituality
Tuesday January 18, 2011, 11:06 AM
Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know
Paul Waldau, Ph.D., J.D., Scholar; President of Religion and Animals Institute
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Animals • Cultural Studies • Ethics • Law • Religion
Monday December 06, 2010, 10:06 AM
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life
Richard Cohen, Author; Former Publishing Director of Hutchinson and of Hodder & Stoughton; Founder of Richard Cohen Books
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Art and Design • Literature • Religion • Science
Tuesday October 19, 2010, 11:06 AM
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Eliza Griswold, Journalist; a Fellow at the New American Foundation
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Religion • Asia • Africa
Thursday October 07, 2010, 10:06 AM
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Gardner Bovington, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures; Associate Professor, Political Science, Indiana University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History • Religion • Asia • China
Wednesday October 06, 2010, 11:06 AM
The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Religion in the Public Schools
Steven Shiffrin, Ph.D., Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Education • Law • Religion
Tuesday September 28, 2010, 10:06 AM
Muslims in America: A Short History
Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Host: Steve Shoemaker
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Categories: Community • Religion
Thursday September 23, 2010, 11:06 AM
A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion for the Twenty-first Century
John A. Buehrens, D.D., Unitarian Universalist Minister of the First Parish Church, Needham, Massachusetts
Rebecca Ann Parker, D.D., D.Min., Ordained Methodist Minister, President and Professor of Theology, Star King School for the Ministry
Host: Steve Shoemaker
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Categories: Justice • Religion • Spirituality









