Ep 328: Dr. Tess Starman joins me to discuss “A Corrupted Faith” — exploring Christian disaffiliation, power, and the rise of #ReligiousNones.
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21.07.2025 13:24 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Episode 329 with Dr. Swasti Bhattacharya discusses the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram, a spiritually-focused women’s community in rural central India!
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24.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 327 of Classical Ideas features Dr. Rebecca Wolfe discussing dieting and religious shame!
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Thank you to @rebeccathewolfe.bsky.social and @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
09.07.2025 14:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Ep 326 of Classical Ideas features a conversation with Dr. Celene Ibrahim about fertility, abortion, reproductive care and its relation to Islam!
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24.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Ep 325 of Classical Ideas features Dr. Amanda Hernandez on her academic journey and her 2024 book Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism.
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19.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
Guest Lecture Open Call
Be a Guest Lecturer for Religion for Breakfast Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public engagement? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, globally diverse audience that’s hungry...
Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public scholarship? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, global audience hungry for deeper learning? We’re inviting scholars to give lectures in a live Zoom series hosted by Religion for Breakfast. More here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Thank you again for having me on the podcast!
12.06.2025 16:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dr. Sohini Sarah Pillai joined me on episode 324 to discuss her project "Epic Bollywood: Religion and Representation in Modern Indian Cinema." Thanks so much to @sohinipillai.bsky.social and @sacredwrites.bsky.social!
Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas
12.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I had such a great time chatting with you, Greg! Very grateful for you and @sacredwrites.bsky.social for this opportunity
09.06.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New episode about about cinematic adaptations of Indian epics with @sohinipillai.bsky.social this Thursday, June 12 at Classical Ideas Podcast! We had a lot of fun with this episode!
Follow along: linktr.ee/classicalideas
09.06.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
EP 323 of Classical Ideas Podcast features a chat with Dr. Lucas Wilson @lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social about the new book "Shame-Sex Attraction: : Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy" from Jessica Kingsley Publishers! Thank you to @sacredwrites.bsky.social
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05.06.2025 16:55 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Celebrated Star Wars Day today by hosting a dinner for my 2021 Epic Epics first year seminar, which was the first @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social class I ever taught. 9/15 students came, including one who transferred! I’m going to ugly crying HARD during their graduation in June #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
05.05.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’ve had some good @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social Religion Department sweatshirts before, but this one is my favorite.
30.04.2025 19:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
what a lineup!! honored to be included with so many brilliant thinkers
(also if y'all don't know, you need to pick up *Lifeblood of the Parish*, which we just featured on #KeepingIt101, and *Vodou in Vogue*, written by @xroadproj.bsky.social 2025-6 fellow Dr. Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha!!)
31.03.2025 15:27 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
First day of the @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social spring term! This term I’m teaching Princesses, Demonesses, and Warriors: The Women of the South Asian Epics and the Junior Seminar in Religion. Super excited to read these books with our juniors! @profirmf.bsky.social @mpgphd.bsky.social
31.03.2025 15:21 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Looking forward to returning to my beloved alma mater today and giving a talk on my new book project for members of the @wellesley.edu community!
25.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Religion and Computer Science departments hosted an Iftar dinner for Ramadan for K’s Muslim students last night and we had a wonderful time. I love our K College community! @taylorpetrey.bsky.social
11.03.2025 14:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of my favorite Kalamazoo College events was last night: the Religion Senior Integrated Project (SIP) Symposium! So proud of all our Religion seniors, especially our three SIP students 🧡 @taylorpetrey.bsky.social
28.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So excited to be part of the 2025 @sacredwrites.bsky.social spring public scholarship cohort for scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality!
27.02.2025 20:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I’d love to be added!
23.01.2025 02:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What a Beauty! I'm delighted to share the cover for my forthcoming book on Indian history... all of it.
5,000 years, dozens of languages and cultures, 1 author. Coming from @princetonupress.bsky.social to wherever you buy books on June 3, 2025.
Preorder: princeton.press/8r8idcye
15.01.2025 14:04 — 👍 85 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 1
First day of the K College Winter term! Teaching my Star Wars class again and a new Religion/Theatre Studies course called Dance, Drama, and Devotion in South Asia!
06.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My department is hiring a Lecturer in Religions of Premodern South Asia and we’re working with several programs at the university on longer-term plans for a permanent position. This is renewable up to 3 years.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
14.12.2024 01:14 — 👍 26 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 3
One can never have too many Star Wars ugly Christmas sweaters.
13.12.2024 13:14 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
PhD in Sociology
Incoming Assistant Professor at Simpson College
Studying intersections of religion, politics, race, gender, and sexuality.
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Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization, Lehigh *
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Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
Postdoc Fellow @ Center for Mind and Culture | scholar of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast | Visiting Scholar @ GWU
I host Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi, The Classical Ideas Podcast, and like to ride my bike. I live in Buffalo and I'm from Missouri.
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associate professor at kalamazoo college // evolutionary ecology, plasticity, pedagogy. also trying to study soccer with a bio lens // 🇦🇷
PhD | Writer | Editor of SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/shame-sex-attraction-survivors-stories-of-conversion-therapy/9781805011323.html
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