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While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.
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- Added: Nov 07, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sounds Jewish commemorates the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 04, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Jewish people's busy autumn holiday season culminates next week with Simchas Torah, the day for Rejoicing with the Hebrew Bible.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Oct 14, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The next “Sounds Jewish” marks Tisha B’Av, a day for mourning the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people on that day in history.
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- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Where did antisemitism come from—is it racism? Religious bigotry? Something else?
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- Added: Jun 20, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 7
Where did antisemitism come from—is it racism? Religious bigotry? Something else?
- Added: Jun 14, 2022
- Length: 54:00
HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
In tribute to the Druids who were canceled by Saint Patrick, we will tell some stories. Ghost stories. From those ancient Celtic lands that gave us...
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- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 28:00
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This week on the show: Religious tolerance in danger -
Inspiring the struggle for freedom: new excavations solve a decades old mystery about US ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 30:00
HOUR ONE: "Worshiping Waterfalls" - Jane Goodall has seen chimpanzees stop at a roaring waterfall and bristle with excitement. Are they having spir...
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
The story of Kaldi the goat herder discovering coffee by accident is a common tale. Religious studies scholar Jamel Velji explores a few more origi...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In June, 2002 I overheard an American woman now living in Israel passionately describe her belief that teaching children to be suicide bombers is t...
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
There are over 70 examples of knights fighting snails in illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s. But why? First meme? A silly inside joke? A weird ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:47
A two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of "Original Politics: Makin...
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- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...
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- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 59:01
There are fakes all around us. No, this isn’t about “fake news.” In fact, the overuse of that term as given real fakes a bad name. That’s right. We...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In the 1960s, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed i...
- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Is Jewish philosophy more about Judaism or about universal philosophical issues?
Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, WGBH Radio Boston and more
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 35:44
JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 58:15
