Religious Studies Podcasts

These podcasts are regularly updated. To save them, right-click on the link, and select "Save Target as..." The files are mp3 format, playable on a computer or portable mp3 player.

• NPR: Religion News (Last update: 04-29-2012) | Click for previous week's stories
      Stories: 1) Party Of Reagan? No, Party Of Falwell, Writer Says 2) Thieves'
      Cover-Ups Raise Concerns Among Muslims 3) Profiled By The TSA? There's An
      App For That 4) Pastor Joel Osteen: An Everyday Message, Magnified

• PBS Religion & Ethics News Weekly (Last update: 04-13-2012)
      1) Justice and Race in the Shooting of Trayvon Martin 2) The Joys and
      Frustrations of Being a Protestant Minister 3) The Social, Emotional
      and Spritual Challenges of Caring for an Aging Parent

Be sure to check back for updates. Most programs are updated weekly.

Most of the following are linked to mp3 versions of the podcasts. If not, they can be found online:

• IOT indicates episodes of the BBC program In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg.
• BB indicates episodes of the BBC program Beyond Belief.
• Philosophers Zone is a program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
• SOF indicates episodes of the Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippet (now called On Being).

Buddhism

• Meditation (BB)
• The Silk Road (IOT)
• Buddhism and the West (BB)

Chinese Traditions

• Confucius (Philosophers Zone)
• Daoism (IOT)
• Chinese Philosophy (Philosophers Zone)

Christianity

• Saint Paul (IOT)
• The Nicene Creed (IOT)
• The Catholic Church (BB)
• The Anglican Communion (BB)
• The Crusades (BB)
• The Spanish Inquisition (IOT)
• St Thomas Aquinas (Italy; 1225-1274) (IOT)
• La Reconquista and the Alhambra (How Stuff Works)
• Savanarola, the Unarmed Prophet (How Stuff Works)
• Wyclif and the Lollards (IOT)
• Dante's Inferno (IOT)
• Erasmus (IOT)
• Calvinism (IOT)
• The Quakers (IOT)
• The Oneida Utopia (How Stuff Works)
• Apocalyptic Language (BB)
• The Dissolution of the Monasteries (IOT)
• Guilt (IOT)
• Heaven (IOT)
• Lourdes (BB)
• Miracles (IOT)
• Mormonism (BB)
• The Pagan Origins of Christmas (BB)
• Patron Saints (BB)
• The Pilgrim Fathers (IOT)
• Mystical Experiences (IOT)
• The Religious Life (BB)

Hinduism

• The Ramayana (BB)
• The Bhagavad-gita (IOT)
• The Kama Sutra (IOT)
• The Holy City of Ayodhya (BB)
• Meditation (BB)
• The Heart's Reason - Hinduism and Science (Speaking of Faith)

Islam

• Al-Biruni (Persia; 973-1048) (IOT)
• Sunni Islam / Shiia Islam (BB)
• The Abbasid Caliphs (IOT)
• The Library of Nineveh (IOT)
• The Translation Movement (IOT)
• Science and Islam (BB)
• The Crusades (BB)
• Sharia Law (BB)
• Islamic Law (IOT)
• The Arabian Nights (IOT)
• Avicenna (Persia; 980-1037) (IOT)
• Averroes (Andalusia; 1126-1198) (IOT)
• Ibn Khaldun (Tunis; 1332-1406) (IOT)
• Islam and Philosophy (Tariq Ramadan) (Philosophers Zone)
• The Safavid Dynasty (Iran, 16th-18th century) (IOT)
• Sayyid Qutb and Islamist Ideology (Philosophers Zone)
• Islam in Europe (BB)
• Islam and the Veil (BB)

Judaism

• Judas Maccabeus (IOT)
• Bar Kokhba vs. the Romans (How Stuff Works)
• Maimonides (Córdoba; 1135-1204) (IOT)
• The Spanish Inquisition (IOT)
• The Golem of Prague (How Stuff Works)
• Moses Mendelssohn (Germany; 1729-1786) (IOT)
• Holocaust Theology (BB)

Atheism

• New Atheism (BB)