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Spirit Matters Podcast
Interviews with teachers and scholars and spiritual leaders with a wide range of perspectives: East and West; religious and secular; metaphysical and scientific; philosophical and experiential.

The Way Things Are by Huston Smith
Publication Date: 2003

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A Seat at the Table by Huston Smith
Publication Date: 2007

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READ and RESEARCH: Full-Text Access for Hindu Journals

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Of Gods and Men: Treasures of the Indus

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READ and RESEARCH: Full-Text Access to Buddhist Journals

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The Buddha

• "We Can be Buddhas." TED with Robert Thurman

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Chinese Ancestor Worship by William Lakos
Publication Date: 2010

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From Confucius to Mao
Film about how the change from traditional religion to Communism affected women in China
Religions of China
In this program, Hans Küng seeks to understand the religions of China—officially a religion-free zone during China’s period of strict Communist rule—as well as the holistically oriented practices of traditional Chinese medicine and tai chi.

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Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping religion and public life using opinion polling, demographics, media analysis & research.
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
An examination of the American multireligious landscape for the purpose of engaging and educating the next generation of religious and civic leaders.
Public Religion Research Institute
Attempts to understand debates on public policy issues and the role of religion in American public life through data collection and research.
USA.gov
The official web portal of the United States federal government. It is designed to improve the public's interaction with the US government by quickly directing website visitors to the services or information they are seeking.
American Academy of Religion
Professional association of teachers and research scholars whose mission is to foster excellence in the academic study of religion and enhance the public understanding of religion.

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FactCheck.org
Fact checks political and scientific statements, videos etc., as well as talking points of political parties and presidential speeches.
Snopes
Researches urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of questionable or unknown origin.
Politifact
From the Tampa Bay Times. Researches and rates the accuracy of claims made by national,state and local elected officials, candidates, leaders of political parties and political activists.
American Press Institute - Fact Checking Resources
Provides fact-checked answers to widely asked questions and the reliable sources they used to find those answers.

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AllSides
Provides media bias ratings for 600 media outlets and writers. Allows you to conduct balanced searched by providing news from the Left, Center, and Right for each search.
Media Bias Fact Check
Evaluates over 1300 news sources for bias, and rates them on a continuum (left, left-center, least biased, right-center, right). Also rates news sources on how factual their reporting is, and the quality of their sources. Provides lists of news sources that are 'fake'.
Open Sources
Curates a spreadsheet of unreliable sources, tagging them according to twelve categories of credibility, from fake to credible, including 'conspiracy theory', 'rumor mill', 'click bait', etc.

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