Thinking About Religion

Did you know that we’re living in the Golden Age of scholarship about religions? You probably don’t, because our media generally ignores it, focusing on religion only when it impacts politics or culture war issues. But most people in the world are and always have been religious, and scholars are delving ever deeper into the history, meaning, and rationales for religious doctrines, experiences, and traditions. If you’re curious about the subject of religion, than the Thinking about Religion is for you. We give you unfiltered access to opinionated and brilliant scholars who study religions, such as historians, philosophers, textual scholars, and social scientists. In every episode, you’ll enjoy a full intellectual meal – not a tasty little sound bite or a fashionable nugget of wisdom. Whether you embrace a religion yourself, try to embrace them all, or hold them all at arm’s length, Thinking About Religion will illuminate your thoughts on this fascinating subject. Could a human being literally shake hands with God? If so, then God must have at least one hand – and one would think, not only a hand, but a complete humanoid body. While sophisticates have long scorned the idea that God could in any sense have a body, as Dr. Benjamin Sommer points out…