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A Spiritually Inspired Future: Chopra, Cohen and Huffington
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Wed, May 11, 2011
Deepak Chopra and Andrew Cohen discuss the nature of modern spirituality, in a conversation moderated by Arianna Huffington. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Urban Zen Foundation, on December 5, 2010.
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What is driving us as we look towards the future? Is it fear of disaster or is it a spiritually inspired motivation to create a better world? For those of us who feel responsible, this is a burning question. If we are to work together to create the next steps that so urgently need to be taken, it is essential that we begin to articulate and agree upon the values and principles that will guide us.
Spiritual pioneers Deepak Chopra and Andrew Cohen, moderated by syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, will engage in an afternoon of inquiry into the key questions that can help us navigate this challenging and rewarding terrain. In particular, they will focus on the place of spirit in today’s secular culture, and examine the role of spiritual development in forging the future. - Urban Zen Foundation
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Interfaith Families: Cokie and Steve Roberts
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Wed, Apr 13, 2011
Following up on their New York Times bestseller From This Day Forward, an exploration of interfaith marriage, veteran news journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts offer Our Haggadah, a contemporary guide to conducting a Passover Seder open to all faiths. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, on March 14, 2011.
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Married for 45 years, Steven is Jewish. Cokie is Catholic. Together they now host an annual Passover seder that is attended by upwards of forty guests of all faiths and that has become a Washington tradition. Hear how the Roberts have integrated family traditions with new rituals and have brought new meaning to Passover. - Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Cokie Roberts is a senior news analyst for NPR News, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program "This Week." In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
Steve Roberts has been a journalist for more than 45 years, covering some of the major events of his time, from the antiwar movement and student revolts of the 60s and 70s to President Reagan's historic trip to Moscow in 1988 and eleven presidential election campaigns. A well-known commentator on many Washington-based TV shows, Roberts also appears regularly as a political analyst on the ABC radio network and is a substitute host on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show." His many honors include the Dirksen Award for covering Congress, the Wilbur Award for reporting on religion and politics, the Bender prize as one of GW's top undergraduate teachers, and four honorary doctorates.
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Mark Salzman: An Atheist in Free Fall
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Wed, Mar 09, 2011
Author Mark Salzman, Iron and Silk, The Soloist, Lying Awake, became a stay-at-home parent in 2001. Eight years and three failed book manuscripts later, he had a nervous breakdown. He joins LIVE to tell a sad story with a happy ending and to explore:
What kind of person gets panic attacks when he meditates? Can an atheist have a mystical experience? Is free will a necessary illusion? Do dogs bark on purpose? Where does faith fit in?
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Mark Salzman is an author whose works include Iron and Silk, The Laughing Sutra, Lost in Place, The Soloist and Lying Awake.
Salzman is an award-winning novelist and nonfiction author who has written on a variety of subjects, from a graceful novel about a Carmelite nun’s ecstatic visions and crisis of faith to a memoir about growing up a misfit in a Connecticut suburb -- clearly displaying a range that transcends genre. As a boy, all Salzman ever wanted was to be a Kung Fu master, but it was his proficiency on the cello that facilitated his acceptance to Yale at the age of 16.
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Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values?
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Wed, Feb 23, 2011
Atheist author and cultural critic Sam Harris discusses his book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. This program was recorded in collaboration with Berkeley Arts and Letters, on November 10, 2010.
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In this highly anticipated, explosive new book, the author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation calls for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. In The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values to dismantle the most common justification for religious faith -- that a moral system cannot be based on science.
The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In its aftermath, Harris discovered that most people, from secular scientists to religious fundamentalists, agree on one point: Science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Even among religious fundamentalists, the defense one most often hears for belief in God is not that there is compelling evidence that God exists, but that faith in Him provides the only guidance for living a good life. Controversies about human values are controversies about which science has officially had no opinion. Until now.
Bringing a fresh, secular perspective to age-old questions of right and wrong, and good and evil, Harris shows that we know enough about the human brain and its relationship to events in the world to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. Because such answers exist, cultural relativism is simply false -- and comes at increasing cost to humanity. And just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our "culture wars," Sam Harris delivers a game-changing argument about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation. - Berkeley Arts and Letters
Sam Harris is an American non-fiction author, and CEO of Project Reason. He received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA, and is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University. He has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is a proponent of scientific skepticism and is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to criticism of his first book, and The Moral Landscape (2010).
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Karen Armstrong: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
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Wed, Jan 19, 2011
Karen Armstrong, one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in modern life, joins LIVE for a talk about making the world a more compassionate place. This program was recorded in collaboration with LIVE at the New York Public Library, on January 11, 2011.
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Karen Armstrong believes that while all human beings are intrinsically compassionate, we each need to work to cultivate and expand our capacity for this important instinct. She demonstrates that a compassionate life is not a matter of only heart or mind but a deliberate and often life-altering commingling of the two.
This program is part of a series of events related to NYPL’s exhibition Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam on view in the Gottesman Exhibition Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building through February 27, 2011. - New York Public Library
Karen Armstrong is one of the most provocative, original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world. Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who left a British convent to pursue a degree in modern literature at Oxford. In 1982 she wrote a book about her seven years in the convent, Through the Narrow Gate, that angered and challenged Catholics worldwide; her book The Spiral Staircase discusses her subsequent spiritual awakening after leaving the convent, when she began to develop her iconoclastic take on the great monotheistic religions.
She has written more than 20 books around the ideas of what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and around their effect on world events, including the magisterial A History of God and Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World and The Bible: A Biography. Her latest book is Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life. Her meditations on personal faith and religion (she calls herself a freelance monotheist) spark discussion -- especially her take on fundamentalism, which she sees in a historical context, as an outgrowth of modern culture.
In February 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began working on The Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public, crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, and launched globally in the fall of 2009. She lives in London.
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Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
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Wed, Jan 05, 2011
This program was recorded in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, on September 5, 2010.
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Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist and author of the recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?.
With all the current talk about the revival of religion, political scientist Eric Kaufmann takes a look at the statistics and muses that if demography is any guide, the world over the next half century will become much more religious and much more conservative. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Eric Kaufmann is a writer, researcher and teacher of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History and The Rise and Fall of Anglo America.
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The Moth - OMG: Stories of the Sacred
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Wed, Dec 15, 2010
This program was recorded in collaboration with the New York Public Library, on October 21, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on religion, visit http://fora.tv/tag/religion.
"Gotta have faith." - George Michael
The Moth, in conjunction with LIVE at the NYPL, in celebration of the exhibit Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, presents:
OMG: Stories of the Sacred
Moshe, Musa or Moses. Join The Moth as we explore the common and uncommon threads through three different religions, all of which extol the virtues of humility, service, compassion, forgiveness and most of all, love. Hear tales of hallowed spaces and blessed events. Soul searchers, devotees and agnostics tell stories of faith, doubt and the places in between. Can we get a witness?
Hosted by:
Mike Daisey
Stories by:
Peter Hyman
Imam Khalid Latif
Reverend Wayne Reece
Reverend Al Sharpton
Andrew Solomon
among others
Curated by:
Meg Bowles
Paul Holdengräber
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Michael Krasny's Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Award-winning radio host Michael Krasny discusses his book, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on October 20, 2010.
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Unlike recent authors who emphatically say No! or Yes! to God, Michael Krasny joins the millions who know they don't know. As a radio host, college professor, and literary scholar, he has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic. He has discussed life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers in virtually every discipline. And yet answers to some questions -- the big, three-o'clock-in-the-morning questions -- elude him. Despite this, Krasny does not discount belief systems or ridicule faith. Instead, he seeks. He explores morality, eternal life, why we do good, and why evil sometimes triumphs, and his quest is informed by artists, scientists, world events, and even films. Personal and universal, timely and timeless, Spiritual Envy is a deeply wise yet warmly welcoming conversation, an invitation to ask one's own questions -- no matter how inconclusive the answers.
Michael Krasny, PhD, hosts the nation's most listened to locally produced public radio talk show, Forum with Michael Krasny. Forum is heard weekdays on KQED-FM in San Francisco, an affiliate of National Public Radio, as well as on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio. An award-winning broadcaster who has interviewed many of the great cultural icons of our era, he is the author of Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life (Stanford University Press) and coauthor of Sound Ideas (McGraw-Hill). Krasny is also an English professor at San Francisco State University.
Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED's award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and technology.
Before coming to KQED Public Radio in 1993, Dr. Krasny hosted a night-time talk program for KGO Radio and co-anchored the weekly KGO television show Nightfocus. He hosted Bay TV's Take Issue, a nightly news analysis show, programs for KQED Public Televison, KRON television and National Public Radio, and did news commentary for KTVU television.
Since 1970 he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University and is a widely published scholar and critic as well as a former regular contributor to Mother Jones magazine and a fiction writer. He has also worked widely as a facilitator and host in the corporate sector and as moderator for a host of major non-profit events.
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Father Patrick Desbois: Holocaust by Bullets
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Wed, Nov 17, 2010
Father Patrick Desbois discusses his book, Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews. This program was recorded in collaboration with Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, on July 28, 2009.
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Father Patrick Desbois, a resident of Paris, speaks about his investigation of the mass murder of Eastern European Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War.
His extraordinary work in unearthing evidence of Nazi atrocities in Ukraine from 1941-1944 is recorded in his book Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews. His team visits the sites of these murders and interview surviving witnesses, many of whom were recruited by the Germans to assist in the executions.
He has received a number of awards for this work, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Humanitarian Award. Father Desbois is president of Yahad-In Unum, an ecumenical organization that supports Catholic and Jewish projects in Europe, and has been involved in Catholic-Jewish relations in France and around the world throughout the past decade. - Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
Father Patrick Desbois has devoted his life to researching the Holocaust, fighting anti-Semitism, and improving the relations between Catholic and Jews. He is the advisor to the Vatican on Jewish relations and the founder of Yahad-in Unum.
In 2004, Father Desbois began leading missions to the Ukraine and Belarus, where he interviews witnesses to the Jewish massacres between 1941 and 1943. In these interviews, he allows the witnesses to give voice to what they saw, recording their testimony in the first-ever systematic investigation of the Nazi's massacres of Jews in former Soviet territory.
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Elliott Sober: Darwin and Intelligent Design
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Wed, Nov 03, 2010
Philosophy professor Elliott Sober discusses Darwinian evolution and intelligent design. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, on April 22, 2010.
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The split between creationism and evolutionism has been the cause of massive debate, which has increased in recent years. One side, led by Richard Dawkins, uses the theory of evolution to disprove the existence of God, while the other uses their belief in the existence of God to disprove the theory of evolution.
Speaking as part of the Sydney Ideas lecture series, Philosopher Elliott Sober argues that it is philosophically consistent to believe in both God AND evolution, and examines the religious views of Charles Darwin, and his late-in-life crisis of faith.
Professor Elliott Sober received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University. He has taught at Stanford University and the London School of Economics, and is currently the Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2008 the American Philosophical Association named him the Prometheus Laureate. His latest book, Evidence and Evolution: The Logic behind the Science was published in 2008.
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John Bryson Chane - Jerusalem: A Holy City in Crisis
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Wed, Oct 13, 2010
Rev. John Bryson Chane, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., gives a lecture on the topic of "Jerusalem: A Holy City in Crisis." This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution's Summer Lecture Series, on August 13, 2010.
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The Chautauqua Institution's Department of Religion observes Abrahamic week by focusing on the most iconic of sacred spaces -- considered by the three Abrahamic Faiths as the most holy of sacred places -- Jerusalem.
Invited from Jerusalem to participate in the conversation are members of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths who can impart both their understandings of how this penultimate sacred space came to be so regarded, as well as their visions of how it might be shared in peace. - The Chautauqua Institution
The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, D.D. has presided as the Eighth Bishop of Washington, D.C. since 2002. As Bishop of Washington, Bishop Chane serves 93 congregations and 45,000 members in the District of Columbia and in the Counties of Prince George's, Montgomery, Charles, and Saint Mary's in Maryland. An active member of many boards and advisory committees, including the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, The University Council Committee On Religious and Spiritual Life at Yale University, The Episcopal Church Publishing Company, and The Virginia Theological Seminary, Bishop Chane serves as Co-Chair of the "Bishops Working for a Just Society" Coalition and on the Episcopal Church's Committee on National Affairs. He serves on a Global Anglican Task Force investigating human rights violations in the Kingdom of Swaziland, Africa, and his diocese has established a partnership with the Anglican Church of the Province of Southern Africa.
Bishop Chane has made many peace trips to the Middle East, has participated in two international affairs panels hosted by the Washington Press Club, and is the author of numerous published articles on the Church and Secular Society, Global Terrorism, and The Episcopal Church and Human Sexuality. He was recently honored for his ongoing work in Abrahamic Dialogue by the Inter-Faith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, and he was a recipient of the Inter-Faith Bridge-Builders' Award. This winter of 2010 he is organizing and chairing a powerful Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Jerusalem. He holds degrees from Boston University (BA) and Yale Divinity School (M.Div.), and has received honorary doctorates from both Virginia Theological Seminary and the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
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Daisy Khan - Muslim Leadership: The Challenge
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Wed, Sep 29, 2010
Muslim-American activist Daisy Khan delivers a lecture titled, Muslim Leadership: The Challenge. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution's 2010 Summer Lecture Series, on July 6, 2010.
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Daisy Khan is Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing an American Muslim identity and to building bridges between the Muslim community and general public through dialogues in faith, identity, culture, and the arts. Ms. Khan mentors young Muslims on challenges of assimilation, gender, religion and modernity, and intergenerational differences. In the aftermath of 9/11, she created interfaith programs to emphasize commonalities among the Abrahamic faith traditions, such as a groundbreaking theater presentation, Same Difference, and the interfaith Cordoba Bread Fest.
To prioritize the improvement of Muslim-West relations and the advancement of Muslim women globally, Ms. Khan has launched two cutting edge intra-faith programs to start movements of change agents among the two disempowered majorities of the Muslim world: youth and women. The MLT: Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow and WISE: Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality programs were launched on an international scale in Doha (MLT) and in Malaysia (WISE). Both programs seek to convene, empower, and build networks in their target groups, and to facilitate the emergence of a leadership that speaks with a credible, humane, and equitable voice in the global Muslim community.
Ms. Khan frequently lectures and debates in the United States and internationally, having debated Christopher Hitchens on National Public Radio. After the Danish cartoon crisis, she moderated a discussion in Denmark between young Muslims and Flemming Rose, the original publisher of the controversial cartoons. In May 2007 she became the first Muslim woman to speak at Thanksgiving Square in Dallas, Texas on the National Day of Prayer. Ms. Khan frequently comments on important issues in the media, and has appeared on ABC, PBS, BBC World, CNN, Fox News, National Geographic, Al Jazeerah, and the Hallmark Channel. She has also been quoted in numerous print publications, such as Time Magazine, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Saudi Gazette, The National and Khaleej Times. In July 2007 Ms. Khan appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine along with 40 members of ASMA. In the same issue of the magazine, she also co-wrote an article on the symmetry between core Islamic values and the constitution of the United States.
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Otis Moss III - A Love Supreme: Jazz, Justice, Democracy
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Wed, Sep 15, 2010
Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, lectures on the topic of "The Ethics of Leadership." This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution's 2010 Summer Lecture Series, on July 7, 2010.
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The Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution examines "The Ethics of Leadership" from the perspective of well-known civic and religious leaders. These leaders share angles of vision that define ethical leadership as a social responsibility that safeguards the foundations for the flourishing of civil society. This talk features Rev. Otis Moss III. - The Chautauqua Institution
Rev. Otis Moss III serves as Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Prior to joining the pastoral staff at Trinity United Church of Christ, Rev. Moss served as pastor of the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, whose membership grew from 125 to over 2100 members under his leadership.
Rev. Moss received his B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Morehouse College, and graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Yale with a concentration in Ethics and Theology. He has been Adjunct Professor of Voorhees College, and has served as a guest lecturer for the Interdenominational Theological Center, Emory University, Presbyterian College, Paine College, Dillard University, Howard University, Yale, Harvard University, and Morehouse College. He has preached at Chautauqua on numerous occasions, and has also shared Chautauqua's pulpit with his father, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr.
Engaging in continuing ministry to youth and young adults, Rev. Moss also pursues a love for African-American American homiletics and church history. He has done extensive research in the areas of African-American culture, theology, and youth development. He is the author of Redemption in a Red Light District, and his essays, articles, and poetry have appeared in Sojourners Magazine, The Urban-Spectrum, and The African American Pulpit Journal, which, along with BeliefNet, named Reverend Moss as one of the "20 to Watch" ministers who will shape the future of the African American Church. His passion for youth and intergenerational ministry has led him to create the Issachar Movement, a consulting group designed to bridge the generation gap within churches and to train a new generation of prophetic church leadership.
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Yossi Klein Halevi: Lessons From a Jewish Journey Into Christianity and Islam
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Tue, Aug 31, 2010
Author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevei gives a lecture titled "Lessons From a Jewish Journey Into Christianity and Islam." This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution's 2010 Summer Lecture series, on August 12, 2010.
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The Chautauqua Institution's Department of Religion observes Abrahamic week by focusing on the most iconic of sacred spaces -- considered by the three Abrahamic Faiths as the most holy of sacred places -- Jerusalem.
Invited from Jerusalem to participate in the conversation are members of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths who can impart both their understandings of how this penultimate sacred space came to be so regarded, as well as their visions of how it might be shared in peace. - Chautauqa Institution
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow in the Shalem Center's Institute for Zionist History and Thought and the Israel correspondent of the New Republic. Halevi is the author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (1995) and At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (2001).
He has been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular contributor on Israeli affairs to the Los Angeles Times, and a frequent guest on CNN and other national and international broadcast media. The 1983 documentary film, "Kaddish," directed by Steve Brand, focuses on Halevi's relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, and was named by the New York-based Village Voice as one of the ten best films of the year. Halevi is currently writing a book about the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem in 1967.
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John Shelby Spong: The Bible, It Ain't Necessarily So!
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Wed, Aug 18, 2010
Retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong lectures on interpretations of the Bible in the modern era. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Summer Lecture Series, on June 29, 2010.
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Bishop John Shelby Spong leads the 2:00 pm audiences through a week-long conversation based on his newest book: Eternal Life: A New Vision -- Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell.
This week having been inspired by the Eileen and Warren Martin Lectureship Fund for Emerging Studies in Bible and Theology, Jack Spong in his unique style makes accessible to the ordinary layperson emerging understandings within contemporary theology, and offers new ways in which to engage with traditional concepts. - Chautauqua Institution
John Shelby Spong, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. Acclaimed as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary layperson, he is considered the champion of an inclusive faith, both inside and outside the Christian church. In one of his recent books, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Discover the God of Love (2005), Bishop Spong sought to introduce readers to a new way to engage the holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition. A committed Christian who has spent a lifetime studying the Bible and whose life has been deeply shaped by it, Bishop Spong says that he is a believer who knows and loves the Bible deeply, but who recognizes that parts of it have been used to undergird prejudices and to mask violence.
A visiting lecturer at Harvard and at universities and churches worldwide, Bishop Spong delivers more than 200 public lectures each year to standing-room-only crowds. He was previously a 2:00 pm Lecturer of the Week at Chautauqua in 2000. His bestselling books include Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, A New Christianity for a New World, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and Here I Stand. His extensive media appearances include a profile segment on "60 Minutes" as well as appearances on "Good Morning America," "Fox News Live," "Politically Incorrect," "Larry King Live," "The O'Reilly Factor," "William F. Buckley's Firing Line," and "Extra." His newest book is Eternal Life: A New Vision - Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell.
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Galia Golan: Women in the Search for Middle East Peace
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Wed, Aug 04, 2010
Diplomacy expert Dr. Galia Golan discusses the role of women in the search for peace in the Middle East. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution, on July 12, 2010.
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Chautauqua Institution's Interfaith Lecture Series invites five women from the Middle East to present the unique and specific experiences of women in this part of the world -- women who lead as well as women who hold civil society together beneath the radar of the media and the political decision-makers.
Invited to this conversation are women from Israel, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. This lecture features Galia Golan.
Dr. Galia Golan is Professor Emerita and former head of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She presently leads the program in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in the School of Government, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. At Hebrew University she was the founder of Israel's first program in women's studies and head of the Lafer Center for Women's Studies, as well as the head of the Mayrock Center for Soviet and East European Research. She is a leader of Peace Now (the Israeli Peace Movement), Bat Shalom (of the Jerusalem Link, a Palestinian and Israeli Women's Joint Venture for Peace), and the International Women's Commission for a Just Peace. She also serves on the Council of Pugwash and on the editorial board of The Palestine-Israel Journal and is a member of the executive committee of Meretz (Social Democratic Party).
Dr. Golan is the recipient of the New Israel Fund Women's Leadership Award and the Gleitsman Foundation Activism Award. The author of nine books, mainly on Soviet policies in the Middle East, she has also written on women and politics, non-state actors in conflict resolution, and globalization. Her most recent book is Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals from Oslo to Disengagement (Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton).
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Richard Cizik: An Interfaith Awakening to Save America
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Wed, Jul 21, 2010
Former evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik lectures on the topic of "An interfaith awakening needed to save America?" This program was recorded in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institute, on July 8, 2010.
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The Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution examines "The Ethics of Leadership" from the perspective of well-known civic and religious leaders.
These leaders share angles of vision that define ethical leadership as a social responsibility that safeguards the foundations for the flourishing of civil society. This talk features Richard Cizik.
Richard Cizik is the President of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, an organization committed to a broad, holistic, moral vision for evangelical engagement.
Rev. Cizik served for ten years as vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, a post he left in 2008 after expressing conditional support for civil unions. He has been a leader in bringing evangelicals and scientists together in the search for common ground on climate change.
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Rebecca Goldstein and Stephen Pinker on Reason, Fiction and Faith
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Wed, Jul 07, 2010
Rebecca Goldstein talks about her book, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, in a conversation with Harvard psychologist (and her spouse) Stephen Pinker. This program was recorded in collaboration with the RSA, on March 5, 2010.
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Award-winning novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's latest novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, tackles one of the great debates of our time - between God-believers and the so-called "new atheists" - and explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.
Join her and her husband, cognitive theorist Steven Pinker at the RSA for a very special conversation, addressing a fascinating array of topics at the the interface of literature, science, religion and philosophy, including the dynamic between reason and emotion, the role of fiction in intellectual life and the mystery of consciousness.
Rebecca Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written several novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. She is married to Harvard cognitive psychologist Stephen Pinker.
Steven Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and popular science writer known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is also a Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
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Reverend Bingham and Rabbi Pearce: Is Your God Green?
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Wed, Jun 23, 2010
"Is Your God Green?" Presented in collaboration with Climate One and the Commonwealth Club of California. This program was recorded on March 23, 2010.
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What would Jesus say about climate change? What does the Torah say about stewardship of God's creation?
Leaders from different religious traditions (Reverend Sally Bingham and Rabbi Stephen Pearce) discuss how their respective philosophies and scriptures guide their approach to today's energy challenges. They also address how congregations around the country are getting involved in the movement to build a cleaner energy future. - Climate One and the Commonwealth Club of California
The Rev. Sally Grover Bingham is a Priest in the Diocese of California currently working as the Environmental Minister at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She has been the chair of the Episcopal Diocesan Commission for the Environment for the last eight years. Bingham has been active in the environmental community for twenty years and serves on the national board of Environmental Defense Fund. She is the founder and executive director of The Regeneration Project, a nonprofit ministry, at this time, focusing on a response to global climate change.
Stephen S. Pearce, D.D., Ph.D., is senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. For twenty years he was a faculty member in the Human Relations Department of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, and he also taught at the University of San Francisco, the University of Connecticut, and St. John's University, where he earned his doctorate in counselor psychology.
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Keith Ward - Religious Perspectives on Euthanasia
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Wed, Jun 09, 2010
British theologian Keith Ward considers various religious perspectives on euthanasia. This program was recorded in collaboration with Gresham College, on December 9, 2009.
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All the major religions are opposed to euthanasia (in their official statements at least), but why is this?
The most basic religious attitude is one that seeks to preserve the affirmation of life, and it is very fearful of anything which might undermine that. But against this is the seeming negation of the religious and moral decree of compassion and care, by increasing the amount pain and suffering a terminally ill person will have to undergo in a sustained or extended life.
How do the major religions stand on these issues and what help can it offer us in contemplating this political hot potato? - Gresham College
Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Gresham College from 2004 - 2008, Professor Keith Ward has a BA from the University of Wales, an MA from the University of Cambridge, an MA and B Litt from the University of Oxford, a DD from Cambridge and a DD from Oxford.
Professor Ward is an ordained priest in the Church of England and was until 2003 Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Free University of Amsterdam, is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and of the University of Wales.
He is a member of the Governing Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the editorial boards of Religions Studies, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Studies in Inter-Religious Dialogue, and World Faiths Encounter. He has been a Visiting Professor at Drake University, Iowa, at Claremont Graduate School, California and at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
He also holds the Regius Professorship of Divinity at the University of Oxford for over a decade. Professor Ward has delivered numerous prestigious public lectures and is the author of many books.
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Judith Shulevitz - The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
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Wed, May 26, 2010
Journalist Judith Shulevitz discusses her book, The Sabbath World. This program was recorded in collaboration with Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, on March 25, 2010.
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A Blackberry free day, a religious observance, a day spent with family, a 40 hour work week -- what exactly does the Sabbath mean today? The Sabbath is not just the holy day of rest. It's also a utopian idea about a less pressured, more sociable, purer world. Is there value in withdrawing from the world one day per week, despite its obvious inconvenience in an age of convenience? And what will be lost if the Sabbath goes away?
In The Sabbath World, author Judith Shulevitz finds insights into the Sabbath in both cultural and contemporary sources -- the Torah, the Gospels, the Talmud, and the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, as well as in the poetry of William Wordsworth, the life of Sigmund Freud, and the science of neuropsychology. - Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
Judith Shulevitz is a literary critic and a former columnist for the New York Times and Slate. Her work has also appeared in The New Republic and The New Yorker.
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The Rise of Intellectual Reform in Islam
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Wed, May 12, 2010
Islamic scholars Baber Johansen, Ebrahim Moosa and Abdulkarim Soroush discuss intellectual reform in Islam, in a conversation moderated by Talal Asad. This program was recorded in collaboration with the City University of New York, on April 20, 2010.
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In a world increasingly governed by ideals of democracy and pluralism, this program explores both the evolution of religion and freedom in Islam -- focusing on the recent rise of intellectual reform and the role of the religious intellectual -- as well the debate surrounding these changes.
Featuring Baber Johansen, Professor of Islamic Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School; Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University; and Abdulkarim Soroush, philosopher, reformer, Rumi scholar, and former professor at the University of Tehran. Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, moderates the discussion.
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Sam Keen - In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred
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Wed, Apr 28, 2010
Sam Keen discusses his book, In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred. This program was recorded in collaboration with Berkeley Arts and Letters, on March 11, 2010.
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As global residents within a culture of fanaticism, materialism, and greed, is it possible to bridge our differences and dwell in harmony in the twenty-first century? Celebrated author Sam Keen believes that a new understanding of the role of religion in our lives is essential for such a transformation. And that nothing less than our existence hangs in the balance.
In In the Absence of God, Keen offers a provocative critique of the present state of religion and leads the way down a new path -- one of renewal for us and our troubled society. By recovering the experience of the sacred, Keen argues, we may renew our own relationship with God and discover the religious commonality we all share, ending bridging differences that have divided Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and others.
Known throughout religious and philosophical circles alike, Keen has spent his life asking the "big questions," and in In the Absence of God, he does not shy away from some of the most difficult and provocative questions concerning religion today:
What does religion offer us in today's world? How has religion failed us? Must we choose between religious fundamentalism and atheism -- or is there a hopeful alternative? How can religion address the challenges and violence we face every day?
Keen reminds us that the answers to these questions lie at the heart of religion and shows us how to access them. By reviving the sacred in everyday life through an appreciation of such elementary emotions as wonder, gratitude, anxiety, joy, grief, reverence, compassion, outrage, hope, and humility, we may rediscover God for ourselves and find a way to live in peace. - Berkeley Arts and Letters
Sam Keen is a noted author and lecturer, who has written thirteen books on philosophy and religion. He earned graduate degrees from the Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University, and spent twenty years working as an editor of Psychology Today. Keen co-produced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary "Faces of the Enemy," and was the subject of a PBS special with Bill Moyers titled "Your Mythic Journey."
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Gina Welch - Land of the Believers: A Journey to the Heart of Evangelical America
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Wed, Apr 14, 2010
Journalist Gina Welch talks about her book, Land of the Believers: A Journey to the Heart of Evangelical America. This program was recorded in collaboration with Book Passage bookstore, on March 23, 2010.
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Gina Welch talks about In the Land of the Believers: A Journey to the Heart of Evangelical America. Welch, a young secular Jew from Berkeley, joined Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church. Over the course of nearly two years, Welch immersed herself in the life of the devout: she learned to interpret the world like an evangelical. - Book Passage
Gina Welch, a 2001 graduate of Yale University, teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She has also taught writing at the University of Virginia, American University, UVA Young Writer Workshop, and WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her writing has previously appeared in Meridian, Time Out New York, and Playboy.
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Stephen Batchelor: Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
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Wed, Mar 31, 2010
Stephen Batchelor talks about Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. This program was recorded in collaboration with Book Passage bookstore, on March 19, 2010.
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Stephen Batchelor discusses Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.
According to Batchelor, the outlook of the Buddha was far removed from the religiosity that has come to define much of Buddhism as we know it today. He argues that the Buddha was a man more focused on life in this world than the afterlife.
Stephen Batchelor is an author and Buddhist scholar whose works include Living with the Devil, Meditation for Life, and Buddhism without Beliefs.
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Great Issues Forum: Immigration and Islam
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Wed, Mar 17, 2010
Featuring Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow in Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Tariq Modood, professor of sociology at the University of Bristol and Director of the University’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship; and Aristide Zolberg, Walter P. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at The New School University.
Chase Robinson, Provost of the Graduate Center, moderates a discussion including questions such as: What impact do Muslim immigrants and Islamic practices have on the societies they join? What unique challenges do Muslim immigrants face? In both America and Europe, which have welcomed greater numbers of Muslim immigrants than ever before, how is the Enlightenment ideal of tolerance balanced against the realities of vast cultural and religious differences? How do Western nations promote self-perceived openness in the face of anti-Muslim sentiment in their countries? - CUNY
José Casanova is a prominent scholar in the sociology of religion. He is a Professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular.
Tariq Modood is professor of sociology at the University of Bristol, his research interests include racism, racial equality, multiculturalism and secularism. He is the founding director of the Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, and the Bristol director of the Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship with UCL. He is also a co-founder of the scientific journal Ethnicities.
Aristide Zolberg is Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University in New York City and director of its International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship.
Chase Robinson is Provost of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is the author of The Formation of Islam, Sixth to Eleventh Century (vol. 1 of the 6-volume New Cambridge History of Islam, 2009), The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600-1300 (Cambridge, 2009), and other works.
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Great Issues Forum: Varieties of Nonbelief
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Wed, Mar 03, 2010
Journalist Susan Jacoby, philosopher Colin McGinn, and theologian Denys Turner explore questions such as: Is humanism another kind of religion? Is it religion's evolutionary future, rather than just one of several alternatives? What light does the recent scientific study of religion throw on these possibilities?
How do the new humanists compare to the new atheists? Can an atheist identity be shaped by a positive ethic, or must it be primarily an anti-religious sentiment? How will the persistence of belief and disbelief, as well as the tension between them, shape thought and culture in the 21st century? - CUNY
This program was recorded in collaboration with the City University of New York, on December 7, 2009.
Susan Jacoby is the author of The Age of American Unreason. She began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post, and has been a contributor to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers for more than 25 years on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, political dissent in the Soviet Union and Russian literature.
William P. Kelly was appointed president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on July 1, 2005. From 1998 through June 2005, he served as the Graduate Center's provost and senior vice president, a tenure that was marked by the recruitment of a remarkable cadre of internationally renowned scholars to the school's faculty.
Colin McGinn (B.Phil., Oxford University), joined the UM Philosophy Department in 2006, having taught previously at University of London, University of Oxford, and Rutgers University. He was the recipient of the John Locke Prize at Oxford University in 1973. His research interests are in philosophy of mind (particularly consciousness, intentionality and imagination), metaphysics, ethics and philosophical logic.
Gustav Niebuhr is an associate professor of Religion and the Media, director of the Religion and Society Program, director of the Carnegie Religion and Media Minor, and co-director of the Luce Project in Religion, Media, and International Relations at Syracuse University.
Denys Alan Turner is a British academic in the field of philosophy and theology. He is currently Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University having been appointed in 2005, previously having been Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from Oxford University.
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Richard Harries: Does God Believe in Human Rights?
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Wed, Feb 17, 2010
Gresham College Professor of Divinity Richard Harries asks, does God believe in human rights? This program was recorded in collaboration with Gresham College, on January 14, 2010.
The movement to establish an international legal basis for human rights after World War II has been one of the great achievements of our time. But do human rights have a sound theological basis? Sometimes it seems religions give the impression that God is indifferent to them. This challenge needs to be faced in order to find a firm foundation for rights. - Gresham College
Before being the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006, Lord Richard Harries was previously the Dean of King's College London, where he is now a Fellow and an Honorary Professor of Theology. He is an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and of St Anne's College, Oxford.
He also holds a number of other prestigious positions in other top British Universities. In 2006 he was made a Life Peer as Lord Harries of Pentregarth of Ceinewydd in the County of Dyfed and sits on the crossbenches.
Professor Harries has published 24 books and numerous articles, covering a wide range of interests. These include: Art and the Beauty of God (Mowbrays, 1993), Christianity and War in the Nuclear Age (Mowbrays, 1986), Is there a Gospel for the Rich? (Mowbrays, 1992), After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism after the Holocaust (OUP, 2003), C. S. Lewis: The Man and his God (Collins, 1987), and a collection of his contributions to 'Thought for the Day' on Radio 4's Today Programme to which he has been a regular contributor since 1972, In Gladness of Today (Harper Collins, 1999).
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Robert Wistrich and Jeffrey Herf - A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism Then and Now
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Wed, Feb 03, 2010
Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Robert Wistrich and University of Maryland, College Park professor Jeffrey Herf trace the history of anti-Semitism from its earliest recorded roots through the present. Furthermore, they discuss the potential impacts of its modern-day resurgence. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on January 4, 2010.
Jeffrey Herf is professor of modern European history at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World examines the Nazi regime's efforts to spread its ideas to North Africa and the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust.
Herf has lectured widely at major universities and research centers in the United States, Europe and Israel, and has also brought a historian's perspective to bear on issues of contemporary policy and politics in his contributions to The New Republic online and in essays in The American Interest, The International Herald Tribune, The National Interest, Partisan Review, The Washington Post and major German newspapers including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, and Die Zeit.
Robert Wistrich is director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Neuburger professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A prolific author, Wistrich has written extensively on the history of anti-Semitism, Jews and socialism, Nazi Germany, and related topics. Between 1999 and 2001 Wistrich was one of six scholars appointed to an international Catholic-Jewish historical commission to examine the wartime record of Pope Pius the XII.
More recently, in June 2003, he initiated and acted as chief historical advisor for a BBC film documentary on contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism, entitled "Blaming the Jews." Since 2003, he has edited the research journal Anti-Semitism International and the Posen Papers in Contemporary Anti-Semitism. Most recently, Wistrich is the author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad.
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Jacob Needleman - What Is God?
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Wed, Jan 20, 2010
Jacob Needleman talks about his latest book, What Is God?. In this deeply personal work, religious scholar and philosopher Needleman cuts a clear path through today’s debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power. - Book Passage
Jacob Needleman is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including The American Soul, The Wisdom of Love, Time and the Soul, The Heart of Philosophy, Lost Christianity, and Money and the Meaning of Life.
In addition to his teaching and writing, he serves as a consultant in the fields of psychology, education, medical ethics, philanthropy, and business, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's acclaimed PBS series "A World of Ideas."
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René Girard - Myth, Conflict and Desire in Human History
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Wed, Jan 06, 2010
An interview with historian and philosopher René Girard. This program was recorded as a part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, Uncommon Knowledge, on December 1, 2009.
Born in Avignon on Christmas Day 1923, philosopher René Girard is the author of works that are published in more than two dozen languages, including The Scapegoat and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. His latest book, Achever Clausewitz, will be published in the United States in 2010 as Battling to the End: Politics, War, and Apocalypse. In 2005, Professor Girard received the highest honor in France, induction as one of the forty members of the Academie Francaise.
First describing the triangular structure of desire -- object, model, and subject -- Girard tells how conflicts are resolved and why human society is not marked by total conflict all the time. He further speaks of the intersection of the universal themes of mythology and Christianity and Christianity's future.
"History...is a test of mankind," says René Girard, and "mankind is failing that test." - Hoover Institution
René Girard (born December 25, 1923, Avignon, France) is a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. He is the author of several books in which he developed the ideas of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism, and how they relate to the Bible.
Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.
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Panel Disussion: What Is Religion?
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Wed, Dec 16, 2009
Featuring Daniel Dennet, David Sloan Wilson, John F. Haught, William P. Kelley, and Gustav Niebuhr. Recorded in collaboration with the City University of New York, on November 17, 2009.
The Forum's year-long exploration of religion launches with a program featuring distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett and noted evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.
They are joined by additional participants to discuss questions such as: What is the nature and purpose of religion? Is it a product of our evolution and something we can now do without? Is it a system of belief and practice that humans require in order to build communities and construct meaning for their lives? What in human make-up renders religion possible? How has religious belief developed and changed over the years, and how does it continue to do so? - CUNY
Born in Boston, Dr. Daniel Dennett received his B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, and earned his Doctorate in Philosophy at Oxford University in 1965. After teaching at U.C. Irvine for six years, Dennett joined the faculty at Tufts University in 1971, where he is now a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
David Sloan Wilson uses evolutionary theory to explain all aspects of humanity in addition to the rest of life, as he recounts for a general audience in Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives (Bantam 2007). He is a distinguished professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York.
John F. Haught (Ph.D. Catholic University, 1970), is Senior Fellow, Science and Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. He was formerly Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University (1970-2005) and Chair (1990-95).
William P. Kelly was appointed president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on July 1, 2005. From 1998 through June 2005, he served as the Graduate Center's provost and senior vice president, a tenure that was marked by the recruitment of a remarkable cadre of internationally renowned scholars to the school's faculty.
Gustav Niebuhr is an associate professor of Religion and the Media, director of the Religion and Society Program, director of the Carnegie Religion and Media Minor, and co-director of the Luce Project in Religion, Media, and International Relations at Syracuse University.
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Matthieu Ricard - On Compassion
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Wed, Dec 02, 2009
Matthieu Ricard, molecular biologist, Bhuddist monk, translator to the Dalai Lama, best-selling author, and photographer, spent the evening of October 16, 2009, at swissnex San Francisco for a closed, private dinner, where he spoke on Compassion in Action.
Ricard is founder of Karuna-Shechen, a charitable foundation that provides medical, social, and educational services in the Himalayan region. Brain scans done by neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin peg him as the happiest man on Earth. - Swissnex San Francisco
Matthieu Ricard is a best-selling author, translator and photographer highly regarded for his scholarship and knowledge of Buddhism and Tibetan culture. He has lived and worked in the Himalayan region for over forty years.
After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972 at the Institute Pasteur under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob, Mr. Ricard decided to forsake his artistic and scientific careers and concentrate on Tibetan Buddhist studies. He lived in the Himalayas with the greatest living teachers of that tradition.
The Monk and the Philosopher, a dialogue with his father, Jean-Francois Revel, was a best seller in Europe.The Quantum and the Lotus, about science and Buddhism, was published the next year. Happiness: A Guide to Life's Most Important Skill is in its third printing. His books have been translated in over twenty languages.
His intimate knowledge and unprecedented access to Tibetan teachers and culture has enabled him to capture on camera rare and surprising moments and events. He is the author and photographer of Spirit of Tibet, Buddhist Himalayas, Tibet: An Inner Journey, Motionless Journey, and Bhutan: The Land of Serenity. He has had numerous international shows of his photography.
He is a major participant in the research collaboration between cognitive scientists and Buddhist practitioners, spearheaded by the Dalai Lama and the Mind and Life Institute. He received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in the East.
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Deepak Chopra - Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You
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Wed, Nov 18, 2009
Spiritual guru Deepak Chopra talks about his book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You. This program was recorded in collaboration with Berkeley Arts and Letters, on October 22, 2009.
"You can't change the body without changing the self, and you can't change the self without bringing in the soul," says Deepak Chopra, a renowned pioneer in holistic medicine. Chopra believes the highest choice is to reinvent your body and resurrect your soul.
He discusses aging, the many lifestyle diseases he says are the result of the steady loss of energy inside the body, and how awareness can reverse the process.
From early childhood, each of us has been inventing our body, through beliefs, habits, conditioning, and our mental responses to everyday stress. We've done this unconsciously, and may now feel dissatisfaction on all levels: body, mind and spirit.
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul offers three keys to creating the self you desire: the soul shift, the subtle action, and the core participation. Chopra's message is that your highest vision of yourself can be turned into physical reality. - Commonwealth Club of California
Deepak Chopra is the author of more than fifty books translated into more than thirty-five languages. Dr. Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management, and a senior scientist with the Gallup Organization. He is founder and president of the Alliance for a New Humanity.
Time magazine heralds Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as "the poet–prophet of alternative medicine."
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Richard Dawkins - The Evidence for Evolution
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Wed, Nov 04, 2009
Celebrated biologist Richard Dawkins talks about his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. This program was recorded in collaboration with Berkeley Arts and Letters, on October 7, 2009.
Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God's existence. Now, in The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins presents a stunning counterattack against advocates of "Intelligent Design" that explains the evidence for evolution while keeping an eye trained on the absurdities of the creationist argument.
More than an argument of his own, it's a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the interstices of life on earth. Taking us through the case for evolution step-by-step, Dawkins looks at DNA, selective breeding, anatomical similarities, molecular family trees, geography, time, fossils, vestiges and imperfections, human evolution, and the formula for a strong scientific theory.
Dawkins' trademark wit and ferocity is joined by an infectious passion for the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, proving along the way that the mechanisms of the natural world are more miraculous -- a "greater show" -- than any creation story generated by any religion on earth. - Berkeley Arts and Letters
Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology.
He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale The God Delusion, and most recently, The Greatsest Show on Earth.
Professor Dawkins's awards have included the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1990), The International Cosmos Prize (1997) and the Kistler Prize (2001).
He has Honorary Doctorates in both literature and science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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An Interfaith Religion Panel: Living Faith Responsibly In a Globalized World
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Wed, Oct 21, 2009
The Global Nomad Salon hosts a discussion on global religion framed around the question: "How can faith be lived responsibly in our globalized world?" - JANERA
Rabbi Justuc Baird is the Director of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Seminary.
The Rev. Chloe Breyer is the Director of the Interfaith Center of New York.
Faisal Devji is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He teaches at The New School for Social Research in New York City.
Elizabeth Garnsey is an Episcopal priest of the Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Anthony Gottlieb is a rational philosopher and author of The Dream of Reason.
Dr. Uma Mysorekar is the Director of the Hindu Temple Association of North America.
Sharon Salzberg is a Buddhist teacher and author of among others The Kindness Handbook.
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The Atheon Project: A Temple of Science for Rational Belief
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Wed, Oct 07, 2009
Is the future of religion scientific? Is the future of science religious? UC Berkeley and the Magnes co-host a panel discussion on faith and reason in the 21st Century, inspired by The Atheon, a public artwork by Jonathon Keats - The Judah L. Magnes Museum
Robert A. Burton, M.D., graduated from Yale University and the University of California at San Francisco medical school, where he also completed his neurology residency. At age thirty-three, he was appointed chief of the Division of Neurology at Mt. Zion-UCSF Hospital, where he subsequently became Associate Chief of the Department of Neurosciences. His non-neurology writing career includes three critically acclaimed novels and a neuroscience and culture column at Salon.com-- Mind Reader. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
John Campbell is Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley and author of Past, Space and Self (1994) and Reference and Consciousness (2002).
Alla Efimova is the Chief Curator at the Judah L. Magnes Museum.
Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, novelist, and critic. He is creator of Atheon. For his most recent exhibition, at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco, he customized the metric system. He has also attempted to genetically engineer God in a petri dish, in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, and petitioned Berkeley to pass a fundamental law of logic. He has been awarded Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships, and his projects have been documented by The San Francisco Chronicle, KQED-TV, and the BBC World Service.
Dr. Iian Roth is Senior Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley. Dr. Ilan Roth has extensive experience in the application of analytical and numerical methods to problems in space physics: aurora, cusp, ring current, planets, solar and astrophysical environments. He is Co-Investigator on the Cluster satellites and is involved in the FAST, WIND and POLAR satellite projects. He is the co-author of the theory of the He-3 and heavy ions acceleration in solar flares as well as numerous magnetospheric acceleration processes from thermal auroral ions to relativistic electrons. He was also involved in an analysis of the recently discovered spikes on auroral field lines.
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Gene Robinson - Strength, Spirituality, and Being a Gay Bishop in America
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Wed, Sep 23, 2009
This program was recorded in collaboration with the Tides: Momentum Conference, in San Francisco, CA, on September 7, 2009.
Bishop Gene Robinson presents at Momentum 2009 on the Power plenary: Pathways to opportunity and prosperity in America continue to be blocked by racism, homophobia, and elitism. Who defines the rules of engagement? How do private perceptions inform public choices and vice versa? How can we use ideas, network, and technology to reformulate hierarchies and enact progressive values? What does it mean to speak truth to power in the Obama era?
Robinson's momentum: "As a human being and as a Christian, I am passionate about joining God in loving and liberating the poor, the marginalized and the disenfranchised. The closer we are to those who are in the margins, the closer we get to God." - Momentum Conference
Gene Robinson is the Ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Widely recognized for his work on civil rights for gay, lesbian, and transgender people; he is also known for advocating for debt relief, socially responsible investment, and access to healthcare.
He holds two honorary doctorates and has received numerous awards from national civil rights organizations including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Equality Forum.
His story is featured in the 2007 feature-length documentary, "For the Bible Tells Me So." Bishop Robinson gave the invocation at the opening inaugural ceremonies for President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.
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