Here’s a list top ten list from Booklist, mainly popular (as opposed to scholarly) religion titles for 2008.
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I’ve been listening to a bunch of fundamentalist Christian podcasts of late. This is food for thought for many in our country, though it might seem a bit distant at Temple University. You can learn about how the Book of Daniel presaged the split in the Alexandrian empire and the rise of the first Anti-Christ, Antiochus, and how Antiochus presaged the coming of the next Anti-Christ during the Tribulation (whether you believe in the pre-Trib or post-Trib rapture). I also listened to someone explain how you need to go back to Adam and Eve to fully understand the essence of the Anti-Christ. She has evidently spent her life searching for the Anti-Christ.
Have a listen:
http://www.revelationsradionetwork.com/.
Check out the Academy Blog, the newest edition to the web site of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The blog posts often contain links to podcasts as well as links to the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
Book Review of new book by Alan Sokel, author of the now famous hoax in Social Text hoax.
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy, and Culture, by Alan Sokel
Book Review (reviewer: James Ladyman)
Here’s the original article: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity”
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A piece on Democracy Now on Palin’s church and religious views. Listen to it or read the transcript.
Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Church of God
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This looks interesting, a review of five books, which should be of interest to students of religion and classics: “Remapping the Landscape: Early Christianity and the Graeco-Roman World. A Review Article” Journal of Religious History ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, trial goes through 10/17/08. (For all current database trials, go here.) “Now expanded and updated, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Revised extensively in 2004 to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship, the Guide currently features 52 new entries and subentries and is updated annually. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field’s most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.” from the web site Have a look at it. Let me know what you think. Fred ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–
Looks like an interesting program presented by the Temple Premodern Studies Colloquium:
Premodern Sovereignties and the Discourses of Political Theology and Biopolitics
Friday, September 5, 2008
Try out the free audio books on LibriVox. You can listen to them on your computer, iPod, or MP3 player.
“LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.”
I just downloaded the Anti-Federalist and the Federalist Papers to iTunes and plan to listen to them when I get a chance. These are works I’ve been meaning to read forever. I’ll try to listen to them instead. I searched the catalog a bit and discovered audio works of Descartes, Plato, Martin Luther, Augustine, Aquinas, among others.
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A nice site on the Ancient Olympics. Have a look.