The Weakest Link — MidYear Special 2020 (with video)
December 14, 2020
Who will be the weakest link in our 2020 MidYear Special?!
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Who will be the weakest link in our 2020 MidYear Special?!
In this episode, Breann Fallon talks to Dr. Kathleen McPhillips about her work on the Catholic Church and the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
This month’s Discourse! – with Chris Cotter, Ray Kim, and Theo Wildcroft – kicks off with a festive twist on our now-traditional focus upon Covid-19 to discuss recent relaxations in restrictions in the UK, halal vaccinations, and much more.
In Joseph L. Tucker Edmond’s response to our interview with Richard Newton, we see a continuation of the extended, organic metaphors of Newton’s scriptural lens for studying Alex Haley’s Roots. What does it mean to tend a future, asks Tucker Edmonds, and who tends the futures for Black subjects?
Restoring marginalized voices to the scholarship on religion and ecology is essential decolonial praxis, writes Amanda J. Baugh in this response to our episode with Gretel Van Wieren on “Climate Change(s).”
How can Jewish Studies help us rethink concepts like “the political”? In this response to our episode featuring Carsten Wilke interviewed by Sidney Castillo, Jonathan Garb highlights additional aspects of “the rise of kabbalah as a potent cultural force in the early modern period” that challenge the limits of cross-cultural comparison.
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