Category: Media - Part 3

A Secular Age: Charles Taylor

A radio episode from Rethinking Religion with Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the Templeton Prize and the Kyoto Prize. He is in conversation here with Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Hosted by Norris J. Chumley. Running time 52 minutes….

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Laurie Anderson: Refiguring the Spiritual

Listen to a conversation with Laurie Anderson, an American experimental performance artist and musician. Moderated by Irving Sandler, an art critic and historian and founder of Artist’s Space. “Refiguring the Spiritual” is a yearlong series of conversations with leading contemporary artists on the implications and influence of the changing spiritual landscape for the…

Category: Podcasts

After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement

Listen to a panel discussion with contributors to After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement, the first volume in the book series by Columbia University Press and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life. Participants include: Courtney Bender, Associate Professor, Religion, Columbia University J. Terry Todd, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Drew University…

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Terry Eagleton: The New Atheism and the War on Terror

Terry Eagleton is an influential literary theorist and Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster. He has written more than forty books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), and, most recently, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009). Terry Eagleton: The reason…

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Religion, Imagination and Writing: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is a novelist and essayist, author of Midnight’s Children, which won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, Shalimar the Clown, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Satanic Verses, for which a fatwa was issued on him in 1989. Listen to this episode at iTunes University or here: https://ircpl.org/audio/RR_episodes/6-RR-Salman_Rushdie-MP3.mp3

Category: Media Rethinking Religion Episodes