On Tibetan Buddhism, Gender, and the Life of Mingyur Peldron
Alison Melnick Dyer is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at Bates College. She is an expert on gender and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently writing a book about the life of Mingyur Peldrön, an 1...
26 Aug 202242min
On Jewish Sexual Ethics
Rebecca Epstein-Levi is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University. She’s an expert on Jewish sexual ethics, and is working on a book proj...
25 Aug 202236min
On Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
Brett Krutzsch is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States and a scholar at NYU's Center for Religion and Media, where he serves as editor of The Revealer. He is the author of the...
24 Aug 202231min
On Contemporary Black Islam and the Black Islam Syllabus
Kayla Renée Wheeler is an assistant professor and an expert in contemporary Black Islam in the United States. Dr. Wheeler is writing a book on the history of Black Muslim fashion in the United States....
23 Aug 202242min
On Yoga, Cultural Appropriation, and Racism
Shreena Gandhi is a multi-faceted cultural historian of religion with expertise in religion, race, the Americas and Hinduism. Trained at Swarthmore, Harvard and the University of Florida, Professor Ga...
22 Aug 202251min
On Yoruba Christianity and Music
Vicki Brennan is an anthropologist who studies religion, sound, music, and urban space in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is an Associate Professor of Religion and the Director of African Studies...
19 Aug 20221h 3min
On Surviving Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
Dr. Brian Clites is a professor at Case Western Reserve University. He is an expert in clergy sexual abuse, and he has spent the last eight years interviewing Catholic survivors in Pennsylvania, Massa...
18 Aug 202242min
On African-American Catholic Identity, Sex Abuse, and Systemic Racism
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt is a higher education professional, researcher, and inclusion and diversity specialist based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her PhD in sociology from Fordham University. A soci...
17 Aug 202241min
