David McConeghy

David McConeghy is an independent researcher living outside Boston. Since 2019 he has served as Co-Editor and Co-Host of the RSP. He has taught world religions, American religious history, and ethics at Chapman University in Orange, California, as well as Salem State University and Springfield College in Massachusetts. He runs an infrequent blog on religious […]

The World Religions Paradigm: An RSP Remix

This RSP Remix answers the question “What is the world religions paradigm?” with an abridged version of our 2013 interview with James Cox.

The World Religions Paradigm: An RSP Remix [transcript]

The World Religions Paradigm: An RSP Remix Presented by David McConeghy (22 November 2021) Includes clips from the following previous episodes:– “The World Religions Paradigm”, featuring James L. Cox interviewed by David G. Robertson Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/the-world-religions-paragdigm-an-rsp-remix KEYWORDS World Religions Paradigm, Essentialism, Colonialism, Imperialism, world religions, Study of […]

Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix

In the first RSP Remix, Dave McConeghy guides us through recent RSP discussions of fieldwork and its impact on scholarship. This episode features excerpts from conversations with Christopher R. Cotter, Spencer Dew, Liz Bucar, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Robin Veldman, Elizabeth Pérez, and Cristina Rocha.

Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix [transcript]

Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix A RSP Remix Podcast (18 October 2021). Presented by David McConeghy Includes clips from the following previous episodes: Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion with Christopher R. Cotter by Breann Fallon Race and the Aliites with Spencer Dew by David McConeghy Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black […]

On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021 (with video)

It’s a bumper episode of Discourse this month, as four (count them, four!) RSP editors sit down to discuss how the media are talking about religion this month. First, Breann, David, and Dave introduce Andie as the RSP’s new Managing Editor, before we discuss mass COVID cremations in India, a new synagogue at the site of a Nazi massacre in the Ukraine, protests over a new telescope in Hawaiʻi, and the scandal over the remains of the victims of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. It’s not our most lighthearted episode.

On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021 [transcript]

On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021 Podcast with David G. Robertson, Breann Fallon, David McConeghy, & Andie Alexander (1 June 2021). Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/on-human-remains-discourse-may-2021/ KEYWORDS Ritual, Death, Burial Sites, Commodification, Discourse David Robertson (DR)  00:05 Welcome, welcome, welcome to Discourse! for May 2021. I’m your host, David […]

Sovereignty, Historical Memory, and the Importance of Aliite Worldviews

“The processes by which the Aliites imagine their history reveal much about how state sanctioned ideas and institutions gain and maintain seeming natural validity,” writes Chernoh Sesay, Jr., in response to our interview with Spencer Dew on the Aliites.

Is Climate Denial ‘Bad Religion’?

the cover art for Robin Veldman's book.

“Climate change demands intellectual adaptation by scholars of all disciplines, religious studies included,” writes Evan Berry in response to our interview with Robin Veldman on evangelical opposition to climate action.

Masculinity and the Body Languages of Catholicism [transcript]

Masculinity and the Body Languages of Catholicism Podcast with Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada (24 May 2021) Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/masculinity-and-the-body-languages-of-catholicism/ KEYWORDS Masculinity, Devotion, Catholicism, material religion, lived religion, Ethnography David McConeghy (DM)  0:03  I’m Dave McConeghy. And today my guest is Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Assistant Professor […]

Power and Diversity in 4th Century Martyr Shrines [transcript]

Power and Diversity in 4th Century Martyr Shrines Podcast with Nathaniel Morehouse (3 May 2021). Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/power-and-diversity-in-4th-century-martyr-shrines/ KEYWORDS Christianity, Power, Identity, Shrines, Martyrdom, Saints David McConeghy (DM)  00:04 Hello and welcome. My name is David McConeghy. And today it’s my pleasure to be […]

Master Archive Responses

RSP Master Archive — Responses Field Name Response to Episode , The Varieties of Environmental Myth-Making EPISODE_#: This field doesn’t exist yet. PERMALINK PERMALINK: “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/the-varieties-of-environmental-myth-making/” FEATURED_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/pipeline_protes-min.jpg DATE 2021-04-16 07:00:00 TITLE The Varieties of Environmental Myth-Making CATEGORY: Responses, Season 10 TERMS: environmental ethics, Myth, nonbelief, Nonreligion TYPE: response EXCERPT: Stories can “exert an agentic force” […]

Master Archive

The Religious Studies Project Master Archive Below is the abstracted data from our episodes, presented text-only to be used in data-validation by our web team.  If images or audio players appear, it is because they are contained WITHIN an episode’s post content in WordPress. The goal of this item is to be able to make […]

About the RSP

About the RSP What is the RSP? The Religious Studies Project (RSP) is an international collaborative enterprise producing weekly podcasts and resources on the social-scientific and critical study of religion. Since January 2012 we have released over 400 podcasts, along with response essays broadening the conversation, with religious studies scholars on cutting-edge theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues. And […]

Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action [transcript]

Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action Podcast with Robin Veldman (April 12, 2021). Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/understanding-evangelical-opposition-to-climate-action/ David McConeghy (DM)  0:00  Welcome, my name is David McConeghy. And today, I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Robin Veldman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at […]