Podcasting the Study of Religions

The Religious Studies
Project

Podcasting the Study of Religions

The Religious Studies
Project

Podcasting the Study of Religions

The Religious Studies
Project

Podcasting the Study of Religions

The Religious Studies
Project

Our Latest podcast

BASR 2019: The State of the Discipline

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Theo Wildcroft Vivian Asimos Suzanne Owen Dawn Llewellyn Bettina Schmidt Jonathan Tuckett Aled Thomas Tim Hutchings David G. Robertson Christopher R. Cotter
Vivian Asimos and Theodora Wildcroft took the opportunity to ask the delegates of BASR 2019 what inspired them about the conference theme, their opinion about major trends in the discipline, and how they were personally feeling about REF 2021.
2019
BASR
Conferences
REF
visualising cultures

Latest Features

The Politics of Religious Freedom and the Criminalization of Blackness

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Alexander Rocklin
Bishop Brathwaite’s story points out to us the degree to which the ghostly histories of enslaved and colonized peoples continue to haunt the present from the graves of colonial infrastructures and through repurposed modes of colonial regulation. We can include in this the category of religion and its promised freedom as sites for such hauntings as well
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Afro-Caribbean
hauntology
Race
Racism
Religious freedom
tisa wenger

When Religion Is Not Religion: Inside Religious Studies’ Fight for Religious Literacy in the Public Sphere

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Ken Chitwood
As I listened to her interview about the book and its ramifications on the Religious Studies Project, I not only appreciated her balanced and thorough approach to this topic, but found myself wanting to focus on three points that she touched on in the talk: 1) the ways in which “religion” is defined in the public sphere; 2) whether or not we should listen to “fringe” Islamophobes and their rhetoric on religion; and 3) thinking about “when Christianity is not a religion.”
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Definition
Islam
pedagogy
public sphere
religion

Science Fiction and the Para-Religious

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Marek Sullivan
[I]t is notable how infrequently religion appears as a major theme in the personal lives of famous science fiction authors and how many, including those for whom religion is a major theme in their work, are themselves either atheists or practitioners of idiosyncratic or unorganized alternative spiritualities...
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Atheism
Ben Banasik
Humanism
Race MoChridhe
Science Fiction
Tara Smith

Latest OppS Digest

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - 2 October 2019

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Ella Bock
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find three conference call for papers, two grant, four events and conferences, and one journal call for papers opportunities. Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 39!) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links.

More Recent Podcasts

BASR 2019: The State of the Discipline

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Theo Wildcroft Vivian Asimos Suzanne Owen Dawn Llewellyn Bettina Schmidt Jonathan Tuckett Aled Thomas Tim Hutchings David G. Robertson Christopher R. Cotter
Vivian Asimos and Theodora Wildcroft took the opportunity to ask the delegates of BASR 2019 what inspired them about the conference theme, their opinion about major trends in the discipline, and how they were personally feeling about REF 2021.
2019
BASR
Conferences
REF
visualising cultures

When Archive Meets A.I. – Computational Humanities Research on a Danish Secular Saint

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Katrine Baunvig Sidney Castillo
In this week’s podcast, Katrine Frøkjaer Baunvig discusses preliminary results from the research project “Waking the Dead”. This project aims to build an a.i. bot of Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872), a Danish “secular saint” considered to be the father of modern Denmark, who contributed immensely into generating a national consciousness through his writings, both in a political and religious way.
artificial intelligence
computational humanities
Denmark
Grundtvig
machine learning
word embedding

How Religious Freedom Makes Religion

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Tisa Wenger David G. Robertson
Tisa Wenger tells David Robertson how local, national, and international regimes of religious freedom have produced and reproduced the category 'religion' and its others in the modern world.
American religion
critical
Law
native Americans
Religious freedom
tisa wenger
USA

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The Religious Studies Project (RSP) is an international collaborative enterprise producing weekly podcasts with leading scholars on the social-scientific study of religion. Since January 2012 we have released over 250 interviews (of around 30 minutes) on cutting-edge theoretical, methodological and empirical issues, which is available through the website, iTunes and other portals. In addition to the podcasts, the website also features weekly essays, roundtable discussions, book reviews, resources, and conference reports, plus our weekly digest of opportunities (jobs, journals, conferences, etc). Find out more about our international team here. The Religious Studies Project is produced by The Religious Studies Project Association (SCIO), a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (charity number SC047750). Our constitution can be viewed here.

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