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Stephanie Kaza, "Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times" (Shambhala, 2019)
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Stephanie Kaza is Professor Emerita of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and has written widely on Bud... Read more
20 Feb 2020
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E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think of Religion" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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David C. Posthumus, “All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Mira Beth Wasserman, “Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities” (U Penn Press, 2017)
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Alan Jacobs, "The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Dan Barker, “God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction” (Sterling, 2016)
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Jon Mills, “Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality” (Routledge, 2016)
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21 May 2017
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Robert Orsi, “History and Presence” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Theodore Vial, “Modern Religion, Modern Race” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Michael Ruse, “On Purpose” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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