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One Day University presents a series of video lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Since the beginning of recorded civilization roughly 6,000 years ago, religious groups have been making war on someone. What is there in monotheism and in the...
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Drawing upon the history of early humans and highlighting contemporary indigenous lifeways, John Grim, School of Forestry, and Environmental Studies, Yale University, and Melissa Nelson, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, explain the sustaining power of ritual and celebratory acts that locate humans within the rhythms of Earth’s transformative systems.
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Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. charts the ancient rise of Christianity and Islam, whose economic and cultural influence stretched from Egypt to Ethiopia. Learn of African religious figures like King Lalibela, an Ethiopian saint, and Menelik, bringer of the Ark of the Covenant.
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This is an account of the birth of Islam and a history of conquest stretching from Persia to Spain. For the conquered, what was their place in this empire? For the polytheists they had little choice but to convert, for the People Of The Book, Jews and Christians would be allowed to practice their religions, protected but restricted.
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In 1945, the world discovers the horror of the Nazi camps. In 1948, the birth of Israel aroused anger and bitterness among Arabs and Muslims, but triggered joy and exultation throughout the Jewish world. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled or fled with the hope of a future return. Within just a few decades, the vast majority of Jews living in the Muslim world would leave Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Morocco and Tunisia.
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History now takes us to Europe: the French Revolution. Nation-states. The Jews, now European citizens, became the target of a more asserted anti-Semitism. But having incorporated the new national elites, they began to take a greater interest in the fate of the Jews in the Muslim world and to play the role of their protectors. Trapped between Zionism and Arabic nationalism, Palestine — called “Southern Syria” by the Ottomans — became the object...
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In the year 721, the Muslim Empire was vast. Across the empire Jews and Christians were minorities motivated by a desire to obtain the most favorable status. Their quest for an elevated status within the empire did not hinder cultural exchanges as can be determined with the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, nor prevent the occurrence in the 11th Century of the massacre of Jews in Granada and the persecution and forced conversion of Jews & Christians under...
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Designed specifically with students and classrooms in mind, this video explores major themes in the history, geography, and culture of India. Emphasizing the diversity of this vast and ancient land, Images of India provides an overview of the country, with sections on Land, Culture, Religion, History, and Life Today, including current economic and social conditions. Spectacular footage helps viewers appreciate the varied population and topography...
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From Boston's African Meeting House, founded in 1804, to Birmingham and Montgomery in the 1960s, this film tells the story of the African-American church in America. Meet former slave Richard Allen, who founded the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, leading his first worship services in a Philadelphia blacksmith shop; and Absalom Jones, who became the nation's first ordained black clergyman. Their vision personified the courage and community...
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Explore the history of Israel from ancient times through the Ottoman period. Part 1 delves into the central role that Israel plays in the three major monotheistic faiths. The first part of the mini-series serves as a narrative of the land of Israel from a Biblical inheritance to a modern state.