 |
Name It!Your Encyclopodia of Big Ideas Author: Iman AbdoulKarim and Kohar Avakian
Our story begins in the woods of New Hampshire...no, but really... We're two best friends who met at Dartmouth College and have been bonding over our nerdom since. We started Name It! to share the ideas we've picked up from books, classrooms, sister-friends, and ancestors. Ideas that have helped us name what it means to live at the intersections. Each episode we do the reading and research on one of those ideas so you don't have to. Whether it's Audre Lorde's notion of "the erotic" or Toni Morrison's "safe harbors," consider Name It! your encyclopodia of big ideas that are gonna change how you talk about the world... and you can go ahead and consider us your newest internet besties! Language: en Genres: Arts, Books, Education Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
Listen Now...
What's the Difference Between Religion and Spirituality?
Episode 12
Sunday, 15 March, 2026
What's the difference between religion and spirituality? This is the second most frequently asked question I get as a scholar of religion, next to “Oh, so you're a minister?" And to be honest, folks tend to be disappointed by my answer to both.When it comes to the religion versus spirituality question, that is often because my answer focuses less on defining the terms and more on the question itself. I am fascinated by what is really going on in people’s thought worlds when they want me to distinguish between religion and spirituality in the first place.This week, I'm thinking through my own experiences alongside Robert Orsi’s Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (Princeton University Press, 2005).If you like the episode, don’t forget to follow me over at the grounded pages (on spotify and apple podcasts), share Grounded, with a friend and follow me @imanabdk on socials.
