S1 E8 Graham Oppy on Atheism and Agnosticism
Are you a theist, an atheist, an agnostic, or an innocent?
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S1 E4 Wendy Doniger on Hinduism
Dr. Wendy Doniger’s On Hinduism is a sort of captstone on an epic career exploring Hindu literature, religion, and history.
In this conversation we discuss a number of themes from the book, including her own religious background, common misconceptions about Hinduism, the caste system, orientalism, the so-called “Hindu Trinity,” Hindu nationalism, a controversy in India over the charge that she committed blasphemy, goddess worship and its relationship to the status of women, non-violence, how Western cultures have influenced recent Hindu thought, and reincarnation.
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- Dr. Wendy Doniger @ The University of Chicago
- On Hinduism
- The Hindus: An Alternative History
- To The Point: The controversy with Wendy Doniger’s book ‘The Hindus’
- The Doniger Affair: Censorship, Self-Censorship, and the Role of the Academy in the Public Understanding of Religion
- The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
- Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes
- Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
- “Glossing Anti-Dharma with Dharma”
- the problem of evil
- Hindu Philosophy
- pantheism
- the Hindu pantheon
- “Hinduism vs Hindutva”
- Maqbool Fida Husain
- Orientalism
- Ramayana televisions series
- a Ramayana plot summary
- Babri Masjid
- “On Counting Gods” (on defining the categories: atheism, polytheism, monotheism)
- This episode’s Thinking Music is “Xi” by Andy G. Cohen.
S1 E2: Richard Weikart on Hitler’s Religion
The ghost of Hitler has been drafted into the culture wars – for the other team. Christian leaders have suggested that Nazism was a variety of “atheist extremism.” Atheist champion Richard Dawkins retorted that “Hitler was a Roman Catholic.“
Is either side correct? After analyzing thousands of primary sources, historian Dr. Richard Weikart has written the definitive book on Hitler’s own religious views. In this episode we discuss his findings in Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich.
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Dr. Weikart’s home page- Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich
- Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
- The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
- John 2:13-25
- Great Minds with Michael Medved: Hitler’s Religion
- Richard Weikart “Hitler Was Very Careful Not To Alienate People Over Their Religious Views”
- What Motivated Hitler to Commit Genocide?
- The Truth about Adolf Hitler’s Religion with Richard Weikart
- Debate: Adolf Hitler – Christian, Atheist, or Neither? | Richard Carrier vs Richard Weikart
- Debate: Hector Avalos vs Richard Weikart Nazism Darwinism or AntiSemitism
- trinities 164 – On Counting Gods
- This episode’s thinking music is “Your Pulse” by Little Glass Men.
S1 E5 – Andrei Buckareff on Alternative Concepts of God
Dr. Andrei Buckareff and some of his co-authors are convinced that in recent times philosophers of religion have been too traditional, focusing too much of their attention on an understanding of God as a perfect creator of the cosmos who is distinct from that cosmos, someone who created it out of nothing.
To remedy this many of them propose that God just is the cosmos (pantheism) or that God is like a soul and the cosmos is God’s body (panentheism).
As it’s philosophy, though, intellectual diversity is on display; other authors criticize such views, or explore alternatives within or outside of traditional theistic theologies.
In this wide-ranging interview, we hear about this ongoing research project, some of these alternative concepts of God (i.e. the unique, ultimate reality), and what motivates such explorations.
Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine, edited by Andrei Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa.
- The Pantheism and Panentheism Project
- interviews with Dr. Buckareff at Closer to Truth
- papers by Dr. Buckareff
- Charles Hartshorne
- William L. Rowe
- Linda Zagzebski, “Omnisubjectivity“
- tian
- Mark Johnston, Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
- John Hick’s “religious pluralism”
- Advaita Vedanta
- “God is love” in the Bible
- John B. Cobb
- Robert Oakes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism, 2nd ed.
- omnipresence
- podcast 111 – Dr. Joseph Jedwab on divine omnipresence – Part 1
- Paul Tillich
- J.A.T. Robinson, Honest to God
- Shūsaku Endō
- This week’s thinking music is “Procreation,” by Little Glass Men.
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