00:00 Marilyn Monroe’s networks pulled her apart, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141257
10:00 Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141245
17:00 How to live given the certainty of death, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Hu465KL1w
20:00 ‘School athletics at the center of attention devalues intellectual students’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141254
26:00 Seven Reasons Cops Are Disliked, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141252
36:30 Why Be Jewish? (Jonathan Sacks), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA2U3zF_BmY
54:00 Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140872
1:22:00 Getting to Know the North American Association for the Study of Religion, https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/getting-to-know-the-north-american-association-for-the-study-of-religion/
1:29:00 Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136098
1:55:00 Reflections on “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith”, https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/reflections-on-thinking-with-jonathan-z-smith/
1:57:00 Religious scholar of Jonathan Z. Smith, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Z._Smith
1:58:00 Jonathan Z. Smith, Now You See it Now You Won’t’: The Study of Religion Over the Next Forty Years, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfuypty7LGw
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