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“Orthodox Mindset Unveiled: Navigating Life, Faith, and Tradition” Uncover the treasures of ancient wisdom as we delve into the Orthodox mind. Our podcast invites you on a transformative journey, exploring the intersection of everyday life with Scripture, Tradition, theology, and hagiography. 📜🕊️ 🎧 What to Expect: Thought-Provoking Discussions: Dive deep into timeless truths and contemporary issues. Sacred Narratives: Uncover inspiring stories of saints and spiritual luminaries. Better Under ...
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Medieval Pod is a podcast focused on conversations with medievalists, scholars, and enthusiasts about themes related to medieval culture that can be seen in our modern life. This podcast and its accompanying website are a resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the medieval period, from some of the most exciting new voices in medieval studies and related fields.
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The Theocentric Life - Embark on a Transformative Journey Do you yearn for a life fully centered on Christ? This episode sets the stage for The Theocentric Life podcast, a sacred space dedicated to exploring what it means to live a Christ-centered life. In this episode, you'll discover: Why simply believing in Christ isn't enough for a truly theoce…
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Welcome to ‘The Theocentric Life,’ where everything revolves around the Son, the Christ, the only begotten of the Father who took on human flesh and dwelt among us. This podcast is fundamentally a reclamation project. It’s an endeavor to regain the identity and orientation of true Christians, which modernity seeks to disintegrate. I’m your host, Jo…
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In this episode I speak with Dr. Lucy Barnhouse about the medieval hospital and its connections to contemporary medicine. You can find an episode bibliography, show notes, and additional resources at medievalpod.newmedialab.cuny.edu/. Our theme music is "Through the City II" by Crowander. Our logo was designed by Kat Schneider.…
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In the first episode of the podcast, I speak with Dr. Alicia Spencer-Hall about hagiography, trans sainthood in the medieval period, and the academic job market. You can find an episode bibliography, show notes, and additional resources at https://medievalpod.newmedialab.cuny.edu/. Our theme music is "Through the City II" by Crowander. Our logo was…
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This Dialogue welcomes Archdiocese of Philly Renaissance Man Fr. Stephen Thorne to talk accountability and representation within the Catholic Church. We touch upon the dynamics of his life and work as an African American priest, the Bishop's letters concerning antiracism and where the Church continues to fall short in terms of serving as a truly in…
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Early Modern Hindu Theology SeminarsDr Anand Venkatkrishnan16 May 2016 The Bhāgavata Purāṇa (BhP) is primarily considered the prerogative of Vaiṣṇava religious communities. This paper complicates that commonplace historiography by exploring what the BhP meant to a group of Śaivas in Kerala in the fifteenth century. I locate these Śaivas at the nexu…
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2 Men's Basketball National Championships in 3 years have catapulted the Villanova community into a realm of unprecedented exposure and attention. With an elite collegiate athletic program catalyzing bursts in enrollment and campus expansion, the question of mission and presence of God in these pursuits becomes pressing. This Dialogue welcomes Dr. …
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Shivadasani SeminarDr Prabhavati Reddy9 Jun 2016 By the fifteenth century, the Nath lineage of Siddhas had emerged as influential teachers and wonder-working yogis in the Telugu-speaking region of Srisailam in South India. Both textual and archaeological evidence suggest that Nath gurus have gained popularity among royal families and common people …
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This episode welcomes the remarks of longtime Villanova Philosopher and Theologian Dr. John Caputo as he describes his approach to what he calls Radical, or Weak Theology. Based on the work of German philosopher Schelling, Dr. Caputo posits whether existence can make itself worthy of the Name of God.…
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J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellows lectureProf. Tony K. Stewart27 Oct 2016 Satya Pīr has been for scholars one of the most puzzling figures in Bengali religious history: for Muslims a Sufi saint and for Hindus none other than Satya Nārāyaṇ. The index to their truly puzzling nature is the fact that in spite of their ubiquity—his manuscript and …
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In this episode, Eric Kindler sits down with Massimo Faggioli, Professor of Theology at Villanova University, and young adult fiction author and New York Times Op-ed contributor Patricia McCormick to discuss the effects of the sexual abuse crisis in the catholic church from a academic and personal perspective.…
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Shivdasani lectureProf. G. C. Tripathi3 Nov 2016 The lecture would shed light on the Indian phenomenon of monasticism (shrama, shramana) and asceticism (tapas,tapasvin). Buddhist monks are referred to as shramanas, the toilers. The concept of shrama (labour) has a spiritual connotation in the Vedic literature. Monastic way of life, according to me,…
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J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellows lectureProf. Tony K. Stewart10 Nov 2016 The early modern Bangla tales of the legendary or mythic pīrs are romantic narratives that speak to the often strange and puzzling encounters between Hindus, especially Vaiṣṇavs, and Muslims, primarily Sufis. They bring together foreigners and locals, courtiers and coun…
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Shivdasani lectureProf. G. C. Tripathi24 Nov 2016 The paper shall try to trace the close relationship of the Orissan Tantrism and also Vishnuism to Kashmir of the 10th-12th Century. It were most probably the Orissan students learning in the Pathashalas of Kashmir, mentioned (sarcastically) by Kshemendra who brought the philosophy and ritual of Kash…
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Lectures of the J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting FellowProf. Tony K. Stewart31 Jan 2017 In 1287 bs [=1879/80 ce] a short Bangla work was published in Calcutta under the title of Iblichnāmār punthi by the highly productive scholar Garībullā, who had composed the text about a century earlier. This somewhat unusual text is a colloquy between the Prophe…
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Lectures of the J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting FellowProf. Tony K. Stewart16 Feb 2017 A number of Bangla tales dedicated to the fictional or mythic holy men (pīrs) and women (bibīs) in the Muslim community have circulated widely over the last five centuries alongside the tales of their historical counterparts. They are still printed and told today…
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Dr. Martin Gansten3 May 2017 Tājika is the designation of the Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology that arose as an independent school following the second wave of astrological transmission into India in the early centuries of the second millennium CE. It is thus the form of Indian astrology most closely resembling western medieval and Renaissance a…
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The Rādhā Tantra (RT), also known as Vāsudevarahasya (Vāsudeva’s secret), is a fairly extensive, anonymous Tantric work dealing with the story of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Contrary to what the name might indicate, the RT is not a Vaiṣṇava text; rather, it is a Śākta text giving a Śākta reinterpretation of a Vaiṣṇava story. The RT is by all standards a late …
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Majewski Lecture Jan Westerhoff The Madhyamaka school of philosophy has been credited as being the central philosophy of Buddhism and also as a kind of anti-philosophy of pure critique that simply seeks to demonstrate the contradictory nature of all statements about the world. This lecture explores the nature of philosophical argument in Madhyamaka…
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Dr Sharada Sugirtharajah Nineteenth-century colonial India offers examples of both Hindu iconoclasts and iconic worshippers, but there has been a tendency to privilege the former and regard them as agents of modernity, and the latter as backward. Most nineteenth-century studies of Hindu attitudes to image worship have mainly focussed on two promine…
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Religious Practice in Comparative Perspective SeriesDr Mohammad TalibThe idea of prayer in Islam is vague in the sense that it ranges from the mandatory to the most optional and spontaneous. This lecture will deal with the issue of prayer from an anthropological perspective. Dr Mohammad Talib is lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anth…
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Religious Practice in Comparative Perspective Series Dr Martin Ganeri The routine activity of the ‘hours of prayer’ forms a major part of the daily life of the different Christian religious orders. This talk will consider what function this prayer plays in the life and goals of religious communities. Dr Martin Ganeri O.P. is Vice Regent of Blackfri…
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Prof. Shrikant Bahulkar: There is seen the tendency of Vedism and Brahmanism through out the Buddhist literature, right from the early Pāli canon through the Mahāyāna to the late Buddhist Tantric texts. In the Pāli canon, the terms such as veda, vijjā, tevijja, yañña and so on. These terms have basically Vedic connotations; however they have been u…
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Dr Jessica Frazier: Gadamer saw culture, religion, and art as 'living texts' that integrate our life experience into a meaningful worldview that allows us to think, act, and create. But no worldview is ever static or finished; in 'understanding' we use bias (that of ourselves and others) as the raw material from which a new worldview is created. In…
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Prof. Dilip LoundoFar from antinomic terms and more than just compatible terms, śruti and tarka seem to converge, in Advaita Vedanta, to the same soteriological discipline that constitutes the only means to attain liberation (mokṣa). Accordingly, śruti is revelation in the sense that it, basically, reveals a method of dialogical reasoning (anugṛhit…
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