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MIPodcast #70—A Hindu perspective on being a disciple-scholar, with Ravi Gupta
A Hindu perspective on being a disciple-scholar, with Ravi Gupta [ 55:00 | 75.89 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWho owns religion? Who gets to say what is right or wrong, fact or fiction about any religious tradition? Religious believers and scholars of religion don’t always see eye to eye on this question. In this episode, Dr. Ravi Gupta joins us to talk about where the academic study of religion meets the practice of […]
Read More“What history does to you is its use” (Nibley Fellow Reflections)
Katherine Kitterman received a Nibley Fellowship during the 2016–17 school year. Kitterman is currently a PhD candidate in American History at American University in Washington, D. C. Her fields of emphasis are public history and women’s history. As the Maxwell Institute redirects our Nibley Fellowship funding away from individual stipends into a full post-doctoral fellowship, we’re […]
Read More#69—Setting down the sacred past of African Americans, with Laurie Maffly-Kipp [MIPodcast]
Setting down the sacred past of African Americans, with Laurie Maffly-Kipp [ 1:03:58 | 88.21 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAn estimated twelve million Africans were forced into slavery from the seventeenth century until Emancipation. Torn from their land, separated from family and kin, their bodies were stolen and their very identities were at risk of annihilation. So Africans became African Americans. Years before Reconstruction, they began reconstructing their own past. Many of them combined patriotism, […]
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