Ranked #1
Religion and Democracy in a New Global Era
Religion and Democracy in a New Global Era
13 Feb 2017
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #2
Religion Conflict and Terrorism in the Public Consciousness
Religion Conflict and Terrorism in the Public Consciousness
This September will be fifteen years since the attacks of 9/11. How has our view of the relationship between religion, p... Read more
23 Sep 2016
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1hr 27mins
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Ranked #3
Human Rights and Humanitarianism: Distinctions With or Without a Difference?
Human Rights and Humanitarianism: Distinctions With or Without a Difference?
Over the last two decades the human rights discourse has become increasingly hegemonic and become increasingly prominent... Read more
4 Apr 2016
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1hr 30mins
Ranked #4
What Citizens Owe Strangers: Human Rights, Migrants and Refugees
What Citizens Owe Strangers: Human Rights, Migrants and Refugees
"The age of humanitarian intervention to protect civilians is not over, because civilians keep dying."–Michael Ignatieff... Read more
25 Feb 2016
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #5
The Future of Faith
The Future of Faith
“For the last four decades, Harvey Cox has been the leading trend spotter in American religion.”—Stephen Prothero, autho... Read more
28 Jan 2016
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #6
Sacred Battles: Violence in Southern Sport and Culture
Sacred Battles: Violence in Southern Sport and Culture
Eric Bain-Selbo is the Department Head of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University and Co-Founder of the W... Read more
17 Nov 2015
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #7
A Conversation with Anand Gopal
A Conversation with Anand Gopal
Almost 15 years after the beginning of the United States’ War on Terror, many would describe the American global counter... Read more
5 Nov 2015
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #8
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Religious self-identification is on the decline in the United States. Some analysts have cited the cause as being a post... Read more
19 Oct 2015
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1hr 39mins
Ranked #9
Violence and Vulnerable Communities
Violence and Vulnerable Communities
Marginalized and vulnerable individuals and communities often face multiple forms of violence--economic, cultural, physi... Read more
25 Sep 2015
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1hr 46mins
Ranked #10
Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Alice Kang is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She r... Read more
24 Apr 2015
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1hr 24mins
Ranked #11
Beyond the Hijab_ Pakistani Women’s Perspectives
Beyond the Hijab_ Pakistani Women’s Perspectives
The media shapes our perception of the world, oftentimes advancing stereotypes and partial truths. Nowhere does this see... Read more
26 Mar 2015
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1hr 24mins
Ranked #12
Neuroscience and the Religious Imagination
Neuroscience and the Religious Imagination
How does an accomplished neuroscientist and bestselling writer of fiction view issues of religion and conflict? Dr. Dav... Read more
12 Feb 2015
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #13
Ledfeather/ A Reading and Discussion with author Stephen Graham Jones
Ledfeather/ A Reading and Discussion with author Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones, Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will be reading from his novel Ledf... Read more
4 Feb 2015
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #14
Apocalyptic Violence: The Desire for Universal Destruction and Its Historical Origins
Apocalyptic Violence: The Desire for Universal Destruction and Its Historical Origins
Matthias Riedl is an associate professor of history and holds the privately supported Chair of Comparative Religious Stu... Read more
1 Dec 2014
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #15
Talking to the Enemy: The Making and Unmaking of Terrorists
Talking to the Enemy: The Making and Unmaking of Terrorists
Professor Scott Atran is Research Director in Anthropology at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, Institut... Read more
14 Nov 2014
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #16
Measuring Religion: Sacred Values in Human Conflict
Measuring Religion: Sacred Values in Human Conflict
Professor Scott Atran is Research Director in Anthropology at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, Institut... Read more
13 Nov 2014
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1hr 41mins
Ranked #17
Measuring Religion: Political and Economic Influences on Religious NGOs
Measuring Religion: Political and Economic Influences on Religious NGOs
Evelyn Bush is an associate professor of sociology at Fordham University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Corne... Read more
7 Nov 2014
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #18
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
American power around the world is facing new challenges, and our government is often paralyzed by gridlock. How did we ... Read more
23 Oct 2014
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #19
Rethinking the History of Human Rights
Rethinking the History of Human Rights
Samuel Moyn is the James Bryce Professor of European Legal History in the Department of History at the University of Col... Read more
3 Apr 2014
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1hr
Ranked #20
There is no Peace with Patriarchy(ies)
There is no Peace with Patriarchy(ies)
Zillah Eisenstein has been Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in New York for the last 35 years and is currently a ... Read more
3 Apr 2014
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57mins