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Episode Data for #336, The Science of Prayer: Genealogies and Biopolitics | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | The Science of Prayer: Genealogies and Biopolitics | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 336 |
The methods we use to study religion have consequences, argues Dr. John Lardas Modern in this conversation with David McConeghy. Beginning with the approaches of late 19th century anthropologists like E.B. Tylor, Modern discusses how prayer became an object of study for social scientists. As they tried to find out whether ‘prayer works,’ researchers proposed a constellation of theoretical models and experiments that treated religion as a discrete object. Measuring prayer made it easier to use religion and its practices as tools or instruments available for commodification and capitalization. In this wide ranging episode, Modern sketches a few of the bio-political effects that can be seen from his genealogical approach, and he shares with listeners how the American rock band DEVO merits our attention as a surprising fusion of scientific and religious perspectives. |
DATE | 2020-06-22 07:00:59 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-science-of-prayer-genealogies-and-biopolitics/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1Still_from_DEVOliveperformanceinChicago-David-McConeghy.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Cognitive Science, modernity, prayer | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/LOQBUSAwNx8 | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/336-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this week’s episode, John Lardas Modern discusses the genealogy and biopolitics of the scientific study of prayer from E.B. Tylor to DEVO. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/the-science-of-prayer-genealogies-and-biopolitics-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: John L. Modern
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/john-l-modern/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JohnLModern-e1460817825722.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
Episode Data for #, Discourse! June 2020 | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Discourse! June 2020 | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | ERROR | In our June 2020 episode of Discourse, RSP contributor Ben Marcus speaks with Andre Willis, associate professor of religious studies at Brown University, and Carleigh Beriont, PhD candidate at Harvard University. They begin by discussing how the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans exemplify rituals of state violence and technologies of white supremacy in the United States. Amid mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism ongoing in the United States right now, the guests highlight the story of Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old member of the Catholic Worker Movement who was injured protesting, as well as President Trump’s much derided photo opportunity in response to those protests. The conversation then pivots to recent reports that invoke threats of the apocalypse, including the Trump administration decision to consider resuming explosive testing of nuclear weapons. Finally, still enduring a global and now months-long COVID-19 pandemic, the guests look at ongoing religious responses to prohibitions against some in-person religious services and the emerging court battles over worship under restrictions on social distancing.
Resources suggested by the guests include:
On the Protests in the United States
ON COVID-19 and Louisville
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DATE | 2020-06-15 06:15:43 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-june-2020/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DiscourseJuneTitlecard.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Discourse, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Discourse, Racism, religion and race, RSP Discourse | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/BodKjHwCJ_Q | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Discourse-June.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Amid mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism ongoing in the United States, RSP contributor Ben Marcus speaks with Andre Willis and Carleigh Beriont about race and religion in this month’s Discourse episode. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Andre C. Willis
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/andre-c-willis/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/andre_c_willis-1.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Carleigh Ann Beriont
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/carleigh-ann-beriont/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HU_logo.png
CONTRIBUTOR: Benjamin P. Marcus
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/benjamin-p-marcus/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BenMarcus-1.png
Episode Data for #335, Holocaust Museums as Sacred-Secular Space | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Holocaust Museums as Sacred-Secular Space | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 335 |
In this episode RSP co-editor Breann Fallon talks to Dr Avril Alba of the University of Sydney about the tension between the secular and sacred in Holocaust museums. Having worked in museum curation, as well academia, Alba gives a specific insight into the sacrality of museums, the creation of such spaces, and how this area of study came to be. Speaking on Holocaust museums specifically, Alba highlights the tensions between Jewish ritual and religious practices with the secular notion of a museum. In particular, questions of theodicy, the role of the Holocaust museum in the mourning process, and the centrality of education play a key role in her analysis. This podcast highlights the complex nature of ritual and religion in the experience of public places of history, as well as the liminality of such purpose-built sites of commemoration. |
DATE | 2020-06-08 07:01:33 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/holocaust-museums-as-sacred-secular-space/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Alba_HolocaustMemorialMuseum_cover.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Memory, theodicy | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/BVPj7GcLykA | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/335-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this interview, @Bre_Fallon talks to Dr Avril Alba on the tension between the secular and the sacred in Holocaust Museums. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/holocaust-museums-as-sacred-secular-space-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Avril Alba
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/avril-alba/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/avatar.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Breann Fallon
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/breann-fallon/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Breann_Fallon_Photo-e1464527488826.jpg
RESPONSE: Books as Museums
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/books-as-museums/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #334, Exploring African Shamanism and White Sangomas in South Africa | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Exploring African Shamanism and White Sangomas in South Africa | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 334 |
In this episode, Dr. Maxinne Connolly-Panagopolus asks Dr. Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel how we might better understand and engage with South African Shamanism and Mysticism. Beginning with Sangomas or spiritual mediators, Dr. Kleinhempel introduces some of the types of Shaman which exist in the South African context such as the herbalist, who learns mystical powers from plants; the diviner, who uses oracles such as bones as objects for mediumship; and the seer, who relies on inspiration from dreams, telepathy and intuition. Turning to the complex configuration of race, heritage, and culture present in South Africa, the conversation moves to a discussion of white Sangomas, and how these individuals are perceived by their community. Finally, within the region’s diverse religious landscape, Kleinhempel shares how Sangomas sometimes navigate multiple religious identities. Listen in for a discussion that encourages scholars to reflect on how they will negotiate the demands of critical inquiry alongside their own personal experiences or competing worldviews. For more on Sangoma, Umbanda, and other specific elements of this conversation, please consider the following resources: • Hall, J. (2009). Sangoma: my odyssey into the spirit world of Africa. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
DATE | 2020-06-01 07:00:33 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/exploring-african-shamanism-and-white-sangomas-in-south-africa/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Maxinne_Ep334.png | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Mysticism, shamanism | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/Ue_cTS43g4I | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/334-Regular.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this episode Maxinne speaks with Dr. Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel who shares some interesting personal and academic insights into researching White Sangomas and Bantu Shamanism in South Africa. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/exploring-african-shamanism-and-white-sangomas-in-south-africa-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/ullrich-relebogilwe-kleinhempel/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/s200_ullrich.kleinhempel.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Maxinne Connolly-Panagopoulus
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/maxinne-connolly-panagopoulus/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/persons_connolly-panagopoulus_2021-1.jpeg
RESPONSE: The African Shaman: Some Qualifications
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/the-african-shaman-some-qualifications/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #333, What does religious literacy mean in your context? | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | What does religious literacy mean in your context? | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 333 |
In San Diego at the 2019 American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting, Dave McConeghy sat down with six early career scholars to discuss religious literacy in the context of the release of the AAR’s Religious Literacy Guidelines. The guidelines were a multi-year project funded by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, and speak not only to the needs of teachers in higher education like the panelists in this roundtable, but also more broadly to primary school education in the U.S. The panelists gathered here represent significant voices in the next wave of changes to religious studies programs, where market pressures mean we must think deliberately about how to position religious studies within the academy to advance our field and its work. Among the central questions explored in this episode, perhaps the most fundamental is this: What is the role of our teaching and scholarly contexts on the way we approach religious literacy? If one-size cannot fit all, then what is different about religious literacy when it comes to a public versus a private college? What is the impact of teaching to a regional versus national student body? How do the varied missions expressed by our universities encourage or limit our dialogue with the critical theoretical wings of our discipline? Join us for a lively conversation with Richard Newton, Chris Jones, Rebekka King, Bradley Onishi, Kevin Minister, and Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand. Exclusive action shots during recording by David McConeghy:
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DATE | 2020-05-25 07:01:49 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/what-does-religious-literacy-mean-in-your-context/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ep333title-1.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | AAR, pedagogy, public scholarship, religious literacy, Religious Studies | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/O7Q6gxR-IQI | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/333-RSP-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Will #religiousliteracy save Religious Studies? At the 2019 AAR in San Diego, Dave McConeghy moderated a roundtable with early career scholars about the meaning of religious literacy in their context. Join us for a lively discussion about what it means to teach religious studies with Richard Newton, Chris Jones, Rebekka King, Jenna-Gray-Hildenbrand, Kevin Minister, and Bradly Onishi. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/what-does-religious-literacy-mean-in-your-context/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Richard Newton
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/richard-newton/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Newton.png
CONTRIBUTOR: Chris Jones
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/chris-jones/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/jones-chris.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Rebekka King
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/rebekka-king/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Rebekka_King.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/jenna-gray-hildenbrand/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Gray_Hildenbrand__Jenna_large_0.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Kevin Minister
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/kevin-minister/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/kevin-minister-1.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Bradley Onishi
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/bradley-onishi/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BradleyOnishi.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
Episode Data for #, Discourse! May 2020 with David G. Robertson, Suzanne Owen, and Craig Martin | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Discourse! May 2020 with David G. Robertson, Suzanne Owen, and Craig Martin | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | ERROR | It’s ideology, religion and conspiracy all the way in this month’s Discourse! David G. Robertson is joined by Suzanne Owen and Craig Martin to discuss the Sun’s mockery of pagans, problems with the Guardian’s headline that people are returning to the Church, coronavirus conspiracies in India targetting Muslims, and how “idiology” (or one idiology, anyway) is pushing the religion out of religious studies. Stories discussed: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11512177/boris-must-stop-breakdown-of-lockdown-or-nastier-one-on-way/ |
DATE | 2020-05-18 07:00:24 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-may-2020-with-david-g-robertson-suzanne-owen-and-craig-martin/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/discourseMaymemes.png | |
CATEGORY: | Discourse, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Ideology, India, prayer, RSP Discourse | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/2pkjDiQw2wg | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Discourse-May-2020.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | It’s ideology, religion and conspiracy all the way in this month’s Discourse! David G. Robertson is joined by Suzanne Owen and Craig Martin to discuss the Sun’s mockery of pagans, problems with the Guardian’s headline that people are returning to the Church, coronavirus conspiracies in India targetting Muslims, and how “idiology” (or one idiology, anyway) is pushing the religion out of religious studies. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Suzanne Owen
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/suzanne-owen/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SuzanneOwen.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Craig Martin
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/craig-martin/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/persons_martin_2021.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David G. Robertson
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-g-robertson/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mustaches009-1024x972-1.jpg
Episode Data for #332, Race, Religious Freedom & Empire in Post-War Japan | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Race, Religious Freedom & Empire in Post-War Japan | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 332 |
At the 2019 American Academy of Religion conference in San Diego, California, Brett Esaki sat down with Jolyon Thomas to discuss Thomas’ new book Faking Liberties and the complex intersection of religious freedom, empire, and racialization in the post-war relationship between Japan and the United States. The processes or projects of secularization, says Thomas, were instrument of American empire. By looking at the ways discourses about religious freedom regulated race, gender, and ritual practices in occupation-era Japan, we can see the double-standard of what America has advocated for abroad versus practiced at home. Thomas calls for deeper scholarly engagement with the category of “freedom” and how freedom of religious expression has been racially coded as white in the United States. It is a cautionary tale with important pedagogical and institutional lessons. If we find that discussing “diversity looks like activism,” he suggests, then “we have a huge problem” that reveals why diversity in the academy is essential for discussing secularism, religious freedom, and religion today. |
DATE | 2020-05-11 07:00:00 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/race-religious-freedom-empire-in-post-war-japan/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1IMG-4038-David-McConeghy-scaled-2.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Japan, Race, Religious freedom, Secularism, Shinto | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/6vo1lONOTio | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/332-RSP-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Jolyon Thomas talks American Empire, Racialization, and Religion in Post-War Japan with Brett Esaki at the 2019 AAR Conference in San Diego, CA. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/race-religious-freedom-and-empire-in-post-war-japan-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Jolyon Thomas
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/jolyon-thomas/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JolyonThomas.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Brett Esaki
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/brett-esaki/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BrettEsaki.jpg
RESPONSE: Imagining American and Japanese Religious Freedom
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/imagining-american-and-japanese-religious-freedom/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
RESPONSE: Religious legislation as a place of religion-making
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/religious-legislation-as-a-place-of-religion-making/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #331, May the Fourth Be With You | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | May the Fourth Be With You | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 331 |
Happy May the Fourth! Today we bring you a special episode of The Religious Studies Project to celebrate 2020’s International Star Wars Day. After the release of Star Wars film in 1977, it became obvious that creator George Lucas had tapped into something profound. Over the next few decades, Star Wars became a behemoth worth billions of dollars and a multi-media franchise spanning film, television, video games, comic books, novels, theme parks, toys, and much more. Since 2012, the RSP has touched on Star Wars many times, most often in discussions of invented, fictional, or hyper-real religions. Enjoy the selections from six different episodes as we learn why this franchise and other popular cultural institutions are important sites for the production of identity and the construction of the category of religion. To hear the original recordings, please visit the following episodes:
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DATE | 2020-05-04 07:00:31 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/11024px-Star_Wars_Logo.svg-David-McConeghy.png | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Identity, Popular Culture | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/jxe-RwJL6oE | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/331-RSP-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | To honor May the Fourth, International Star Wars Day, please enjoy this compilation of classic Religious Studies Project interviews about Star Wars! | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Beth Singler
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/beth-singler/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/persons_singler_2022-scaled.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Vivian Asimos
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/vivian-asimos/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VivianAsimos.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Adam Possamai
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/adam-possamai/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AdamPossamai.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Markus Davidsen
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/markus-davidsen/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/MarkusDavidsen.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Teemu Taira
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/teemu-taira/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/teemu_taira.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Carole Cusack
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/carole-cusack/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Cusack_72.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
Episode Data for #330, Boxing and Religious Identity | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Boxing and Religious Identity | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 330 |
Boxers routinely cultivate personal brands that integrate religious, ethnic, and national identities says Professor Arlene Sanchez Walsh in this conversation with David McConeghy about the relationship between sport and self. To what degree are boxer’s religious affiliations only as skin deep as their tattoos? What are the goals for boxers looking to integrate their personal narratives of religious conversion as elements of their professional identity? What are the different stakes for audiences or communities with longstanding support for the sport? In this moment of social distancing, please enjoy this moment of reflection on the intersections of sport and religion. No matter what sport you may find yourself a fan of, we hope that you can soon return to playing and watching it soon. |
DATE | 2020-04-27 07:00:08 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/boxing-and-religious-identity/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Still_image_from_Corkys_Corner_Documentary.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | conversion, religious identity | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/dVVGR72PxhU | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/330-RSP-Regular.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Are boxers’ religious affiliations only as skin deep as their tattoos? Find out in this conversation about boxing and religious identity with Prof. Arlene Sanchez Walsh by David McConeghy. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/boxing-and-religious-identity-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Arlene Sanchez Walsh
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/arlene-sanchez-walsh/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ArleneSanchezWalsh.jpeg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
RESPONSE: Painfully Stripped Away, Painfully Added
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/painfully-stripped-away-painfully-added/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #, Discourse! April 2020 with Christopher Cotter, Chris Silver and Savannah Finver | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Discourse! April 2020 with Christopher Cotter, Chris Silver and Savannah Finver | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | ERROR | In April’s episode of Discourse!, Chris Cotter, Chris Silver and Savannah Finver place the current global situation relating to coronavirus front and centre in their discussion. Come for serious commentary but stay for some levity in the form of cats and dogs. Topics of discussion concern the adaption of certain practices for online spaces, the regulation of the ‘religious’ by the ‘secular’, state hardship funding for ‘religious’ institutions in the US, funeral practices, the excellent recent ‘You’re all Muslim” tweet, and comments on the NHS ‘as religion’ in the UK. Links for items discussed in this episode: • https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/news-comment/the-nhs-our-national-religion-2/ • https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ongoing-religious-services-spark-debate-faith-verses-safety/ • https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/news-comment/congregations-rise-as-worship-moves-to-the-internet/ • https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828462517/another-break-from-the-past-government-will-help-churches-pay-pastor-salaries? On religion-related pet ownership: • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jssr.12637 [Academic] • https://religionnews.com/2020/01/07/why-your-faith-may-predict-whether-you-love-cats-or-dogs/ • https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/01/07/commentary-atheists/ • http://urbanchristiannews.com/2020/01/study-shows-that-atheists-prefer-cats-while-christians-love-dogs/ • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7855331/Churchgoers-likely-cats-atheists-study-finds.html |
DATE | 2020-04-20 07:00:02 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-april-2020-with-christopher-cotter-chris-silver-and-savannah-finver/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/coronaviruscatmeme.png | |
CATEGORY: | Discourse, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | RSP Discourse | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/Jw4T3uWNCnA | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Discourse-April-2020.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In April’s episode of Discourse!, Chris Cotter, Chris Silver and Susannah Finver place the current global situation relating to coronavirus front and centre in their discussion. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Christopher F. Silver
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/christopher-f-silver/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ChristopherSilver.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Savannah H. Finver
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/savannah-finver/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SavannahFinver.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Christopher R. Cotter
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/christopher-r-cotter/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1Chris_Elephants-Breann-Fallon.jpg
Episode Data for #329, Near Death Experiences | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Near Death Experiences | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 329 |
Accounts of Near Death Experiences will no doubt be very familiar to listeners of the RSP and the broader public. From fictional accounts such as the Wizard of Oz or Flatliners, to self-reports which grew in popularity in the mid-twentieth century, many of us will be know narrative tropes such as the tunnel, the life review, and the out of body experience. Existing research has tended to, on the one hand, focus on the pathological elements of Near Death Narratives – attempting to ‘explain away’ the phenomenon in reductionistic terms – or, on the other hand, view such accounts as substantive proof of a ‘world beyond’. In today’s podcast, we showcase an approach which accepts reports of Near Death Experiences as discourse, and attempts to understand them in their social, cultural, and historical context. Further, we ask what is the relationship between these narratives and contemporary discourse on ‘religion’? Joining Chris Cotter in this podcast is Professor Jens Schlieter, who has admirably addressed these questions and more in his recent book What Is It Like To Be Dead? Near-Death Experiences, Christianity, and the Occult (OUP 2018). In this episode, we discuss definitions of Near Death Experiences, how one might study reports of such experiences from a critical study of religion perspective, how such reports are related to modern societal developments such as ‘secularization’, individualization, and advances in medical science, as well as the impact of ‘religious’ meta-cultures upon these reports and the potential ‘religious’ functions they appear to serve. |
DATE | 2020-04-13 07:00:29 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/near-death-experiences/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/tunnel-3915169_1280.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | christianity, Death, Discourse, Esotericism, modernity, narrative, Near Death Experiences, Secularization | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/hVGL0IwIdms | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/329-RSP-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this episode, Christopher Cotter discusses Near Death Experiences with Jens Schlieter. How does one study reports of such experiences from a critical study of religion perspective? How are such reports related to modern societal developments such as ‘secularization’, individualization, or advances in medical science? | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/near-death-experiences-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Jens Schlieter
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/jens-schlieter/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JensSchlieter.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Christopher R. Cotter
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/christopher-r-cotter/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1Chris_Elephants-Breann-Fallon.jpg
RESPONSE: Are NDEs Universal?
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/are-ndes-universal/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
RESPONSE: On the study of NDEs
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/on-the-details-of-the-study-of-ndes/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #328, Challenging the Normative Stance of Aniconism in the Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Challenging the Normative Stance of Aniconism in the Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 328 |
In a co-edited volume, Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Contested Desires, Birgit Meyer and Terje Stordalen bring together innovative perspectives on the prevalence of images in religious traditions often described as harboring aniconistic tendencies. Should we really see these traditions as “anti-image”? This episode charts some of the major moves taking place in the volume, especially the presumption of the normative stance of aniconism in the study of these traditions. What if we turn instead to the aesthetic regimes of the religious traditions in question by considering their shared habitus or the methods of “seeing”used by their members? Such a shift reveals the political nature of debates over images, and the power of iconoclasm. Referring to specific case studies from the volume, the conversation offers ideas about re-imagining and challenging the assumption by scholars that practitioners of religious traditions such as Islam, Judaism, or Christianity hold a contemptuous view of images. Perhaps an increased focus on aesthetic regimes rather than images can provide a superior way to analyze and select data for this area of religious studies. |
DATE | 2020-04-06 07:00:05 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/challenging-the-normative-stance-of-aniconism-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9781350078635.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | christianity, Islam, Judaism, material culture, Visual Culture | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/uIbFt7PGsrQ | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/328-RSP-Regular.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this episode, Candace Mixon discusses aniconism with Birgit Meyer & Terje Stordalen. Would our normative assumptions about the absence of images in certain traditions be better served by turning to aesthetics? | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/challenging-the-normative-stance-of-aniconism-in-the-study-of-christianity-judaism-and-islam-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Birgit Meyer
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/birgit-meyer/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BirgitMeyer.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Terje Stordalen
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/terje-stordalen/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1stordalen-terje.png
CONTRIBUTOR: Candace Mixon
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/candace-mixon/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/candacemixon.jpg
RESPONSE: Depicting the Undepictable: the word, the image, the divine and Islam
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/depicting-the-undepictable-the-word-the-image-the-divine-and-islam/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #331, The Public Square and the Heart of Culture War | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | The Public Square and the Heart of Culture War | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 331 |
Norman Lear was a central figure in American television in the 1970s. His media productions like All in the Family were deeply activist, reflecting his ideas about what kinds of dialogue and reflection were needed to preserve American society in an era of sharp divisions over social and political issues that came to be called the Culture Wars. As a voice for progressivism and liberalism, Lear articulated a powerful vision of the public square where civility was the shared root for multicultural America. In this conversation, Dr. Benji Rolsky frames the public square as the central discursive space for mid 20th century liberals, one which not only gave them great social leverage but also limited their future strategic options to respond to the emergence of the religious right as a consolidated political block starting with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. |
DATE | 2020-03-30 07:00:05 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-public-square-and-the-heart-of-culture-war/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PublicSquare.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | American religious history | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/XHjDlaDhEFo | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/327-RSP-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this conversation with Dr. Benji Rolsky, we learn how the public square became the ideological focus of American liberal strategies in the 1970s and beyond thanks to the efforts of media figures like Norman Lear. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/the-public-square-and-the-heart-of-culture-wars-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Benjamin Rolsky
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/benjamin-rolsky/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Benji-Rolsky.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
RESPONSE: The Rise and Fall of the Televised Public Square
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-televised-public-square/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #, Discourse! March 2020 with Theo Wildcroft, Dan Gorman, & Vivian Asimos | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Discourse! March 2020 with Theo Wildcroft, Dan Gorman, & Vivian Asimos | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | ERROR | In this month’s episode of Discourse!, Theo Wildcroft, Dan Gorman and special emergency guest Vivian Asimos discuss the US Supreme Court’s relationship to Christianity, how the Independent dealt with criticism of a review of a book critical of paganism, and religion, abuse and the idea of a ‘witch hunt’ in yoga and academia. Oh and something called coronavirus?
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DATE | 2020-03-23 07:00:30 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-march-2020-with-theo-wildcroft-dan-gorman-vivian-asimos/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/covid19religionpic.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Discourse, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Discourse, religion and politics, RSP Discourse | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/BWJbqTaopiQ | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Discourse-March.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this month’s episode of Discourse!, Theo Wildcroft, Dan Gorman and special emergency guest Vivian Asimos discuss the US Supreme Court’s relationship to Christianity, how the Independent dealt with criticism of a review of a book critical of paganism, and religion, abuse and the idea of a ‘witch hunt’ in yoga and academia. Oh and something called coronavirus? | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Vivian Asimos
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/vivian-asimos/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VivianAsimos.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Daniel Gorman, Jr.
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/daniel-gorman-jr/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/DanGormanJr-scaled.jpeg
CONTRIBUTOR: Theo Wildcroft
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/theo-wildcroft/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/persons_wildcroft_2021.jpg
Episode Data for #326, Empty Signs in an Automatic Signalling System | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Empty Signs in an Automatic Signalling System | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 326 |
This second interview with Timothy Fitzgerald covers his later work, from Discourse on Civility and Barbarity (2007) and Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth (2011). In these works, thinking about the historical development of the category “religion” leads to consideration of other ‘modern’ categories which make up the colonial epistemé. If religion is deconstructed, where does that leave the other categories that use or rely on it? What happens to its common opposites like “the secular”, “science”, “liberalism” or even “politics”? Fitzgerald argues that this mutually-dependent signalling system largely emerged in the late 17th century. As rhetorical terms expressing specific class interests and aspirations in concrete situations of power, this system of signals originated in the context of the ancient regimes and sacred Monarchies of Christian Europe. Since then, each category has been continually contested, with shifting and unstable meanings. Now they have become so capacious and universalised that they have no clear boundaries, and we cannot properly distinguish between them. Yet these ideas have, over time and through repetition, become normalised and neutralised such that they appear as common sense. Today they form the basic categories for the organisation of our institutions, including academia and universities. Listen to the first part of David G. Robertson’s interview with Timothy Fitzgerald on The Ideology of Religious Studies here: Episode 322 “The Problem with ‘Religion’ and Related Categories” |
DATE | 2020-03-16 07:00:58 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/empty-signs-in-an-automatic-signalling-system/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Orion_constellation_Hevelius.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | category formation, critical, deconstruction, History, Politics, Secular, Secularism | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/t0nrrmX0Er8 | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/326-RSP-Regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this week’s episode, Timothy Fitzgerald speaks with David G. Robertson about why the history of the category “religion” should make us reconsider many other modern categories like politics, liberal, secular. Can these interrelated terms ever escape their origins in centuries of colonial epistemé? | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/empty-signs-in-an-automatic-signalling-system-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Timothy Fitzgerald
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/timothy-fitzgerald/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Tim_Fitzgerald.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David G. Robertson
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-g-robertson/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mustaches009-1024x972-1.jpg
RESPONSE: Which Voice Speaks?
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/which-voice-speaks/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #325, Who Are the Power Worshippers? | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Who Are the Power Worshippers? | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 325 |
Religious Nationalism is the focus of a newly released book by journalist Katherine Stewart called The Power Worshippers (Bloomsbury Press). Framing her work as a decade-plus interest in the political and rhetorical moves of conservative Christians in the United States, Stewart raises an alarm about the distributed assault she sees on the wall separating Church and State. In a politically charged moment in the United States, Stewart’s work emerges within a growing body of public-facing literature that sees intimate connections between radical religious groups and the ongoing struggle for the political and cultural power to shape American life. |
DATE | 2020-03-09 07:00:20 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/who-are-the-power-worshippers/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/181-SouU1GL-David-McConeghy.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | ERROR | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/PYwL4WWWjYo | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/325-RSP-Who-are-the-power-worshipers.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this episode, journalist Katherine Stewart, author of a new book about religious nationalism called The Power Worshippers, shares her perspective on the religio-political struggle for the power to shape American life today. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/who-are-the-power-worshippers-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Katherine Stewart
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/katherine-stewart/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1KatherineStewartThePowerWorshipperscreditAlanHowell-1.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
Episode Data for #324, Narrating Belief: Vernacular Religion in India | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Narrating Belief: Vernacular Religion in India | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 324 |
Beliefs are not written in stone. They change over time and sometimes we hold contradictory beliefs. Taking beliefs as changing and nuanced rather than fixed reveals the role of narratives and cultural context in shaping beliefs. In this week’s episode, Sidney Castillo’s conversation with Ülo Valk introduces us to some of the ways in which this process occurs in the form of vernacular religion. Focusing on the personal nature of these changes, Valk sees beliefs as fluid, which problematizes the stability of other categories such as knowledge and truth. Especially when we express beliefs as narratives, we change the way we understand the world. Valk’s research in Mayong, a village in northeast India, shows how beliefs about the use of magic, divination, gods, and mantras, allow for personalized and open-ended cultural traditions ripe for innovation. This podcast was recorded and produced in the context of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), “Religion – Continuations and Disruptions” held in Tartu, June 25 to June 29, 2019. We kindly thank the EASR Committee and the University of Tartu scientific committee, organising team, and volunteers for the support provided during this process. |
DATE | 2020-03-02 07:00:59 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/vernacular-religion-in-northeast-india-the-many-faces-of-epistemological-uncertainty/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Nagzira_Tiger_By_Vijay_Phulwadhawa.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Epistemology, Folklore, India, Supernatural, vernacular religion | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/oDElqhr8BXA | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/324-RSP-regular-2.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In northeast India, beliefs are more fluid than fixed, argues Ülo Valk in this week’s episode. What are the consequences when what we believe changes over time and how does that impact the stories we tell about the world? | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/narrating-belief-vernacular-religion-in-india-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Ülo Valk
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/ulo-valk/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UloValk.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Sidney Castillo
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/sidney-castillo/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SidneyCastillo.jpg
Episode Data for #323, Founding American Religion, the Journal | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Founding American Religion, the Journal | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 323 |
Can a new journal expand how we think of America when we focus on religion? These two categories, religion and America, are at the center of American Religion, a new semiannual publication from Indiana University Press edited by Sarah Imhoff and M. Cooper Harriss. In this episode recorded at the 2019 AAR conference in San Diego, Imhoff and Harriss speak about what it’s like to found a new journal and where it will fit in the landscape of scholarship on religion in America. Be sure to visit the journal’s website, which hosts a number of digital-only features and details on subscriptions: american-religion.org/. ![]() |
DATE | 2020-02-24 07:00:37 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/founding-american-religion-the-journal/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AME-Cover-webedit.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | American religion, journal, Publishing | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/fBG4h_95g-E | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSP-323-Founding-American-Religion-regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Find out about the founding of the new journal American Religion with editors Sarah Imhoff and Cooper Harris | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/founding-american-religion-the-journal-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Sarah Imhoff
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/sarah-imhoff/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/12019_Sarah_Imhoff_.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Cooper Harriss
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/cooper-harriss/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CooperHarriss.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
RESPONSE: American Religion, a New Journal for the Discipline and an Opportunity to Reimagine How We Theorize
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/american-religion-a-new-journal-for-the-discipline-and-an-opportunity-to-reimagine-how-we-theorize/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #322, The Problem with ‘Religion’ (and related categories) | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | The Problem with ‘Religion’ (and related categories) | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 322 |
Tim Fitzgerald is one of the foundational figures in the critical study of religion, and his seminal volume, The Ideology of Religious Studies, was published twenty years ago this year. In this interview – the first of a two-part retrospective – we discuss his career and how his studies in Hinduism and his time spent in Japan led him to question the relationship of categories like caste and ritual to the broader category ‘religion’. His realisation was that religion is such a broad category that it can include almost everything. We discuss the historical development of the category, and its roots in Protestant theological ideas, and the political movements of the eighteenth century. This leads into a critique of the essentialist assumptions hidden by the category, and the phenomenological ideas in its use in academia, and its function as a tool in power relations. |
DATE | 2020-02-17 07:00:03 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/1-the-problem-with-religion-and-related-categories/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/71cm1GP8yoL-e1581774891750.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | category formation, critical, deconstruction, hinduism, Ideology, Japan, Ritual | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/8x5WQazJD0E | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSP-322-Timothy-Fitzgerald.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Tim Fitzgerald – a founding figure in the critical study of religion – discusses his career up to his seminal volume, The Ideology of Religious Studies, published twenty years ago this year. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/the-problem-with-religion-and-related-categories-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Timothy Fitzgerald
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/timothy-fitzgerald/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Tim_Fitzgerald.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David G. Robertson
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-g-robertson/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mustaches009-1024x972-1.jpg
RESPONSE: Which Voice Speaks?
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/which-voice-speaks/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
RESPONSE: Intellectual Journeys: Insights from Timothy Fitzgerald’s Work
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/19223/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #, Discourse! February 2020 with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Discourse! February 2020 with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | ERROR | In this episode of Discourse, host Breann Fallon sat down with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo to discuss current affairs issues that relate to religion. Sidney raised the very recent congress elections in Peru (held on January 26) and the role Christianity and New Religious Movements have on voting. Sierra brought to the table a novel which is receiving much media attention, perhaps not for the right reason, Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt. Cummins accepted a seven-figure sum for this book on the immigrant experience. Both the book and the American publishing industry at large have received negative attention for their lack of Latino representation and the homogenising of both Latino and immigrant narratives. Using this as a springboard, Sierra, Sidney, and Breann discuss notion of diversity in the Religious Studies publishing world as well as the prominence of “American-civil-religion” stabilising narratives in the American literature and entertainment scene. |
DATE | 2020-02-10 08:00:56 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-february-2020-with-sierra-lawson-and-sidney-castillo/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/washington-deified.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Discourse, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Civil Religion, Discourse, religion and politics | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCypfitkcldmX1CpAqCp7PKw | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Discourse-Feb-20.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Breann Fallon sits down with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo to discuss the recent Peruvian Congress elections and the controversial new book “American Dirt.” | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Sierra Lawson
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/sierra-lawson/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SierraLawson.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Sidney Castillo
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/sidney-castillo/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SidneyCastillo.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Breann Fallon
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/breann-fallon/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Breann_Fallon_Photo-e1464527488826.jpg
Episode Data for #321, Artificial Intelligence and Religion | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Artificial Intelligence and Religion | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 321 |
What is Artificial Intelligence and why might we want to consider it in relation to ‘religion’? What religion-related questions might be raised by AI? Are these ‘religious’ questions or ‘Christian’/’post-Christian’ ones? What ‘religious’ functions might AI serve? In what ways do popular discourses about AI intersect with religion-related discourses? Do narratives of AI form part of a teleological atheist narrative, or do they perpetuate prevalent tropes associated with ‘established’ or ‘new’ religious movements? And what are the intersections of AI and religion with issues such as slavery, human identity, affect and agency? This week, Chris is joined by Dr Beth Singler of the University of Cambridge to discuss these issues and many more. This podcast builds on a roundtable discussion released on the RSP in February 2017, featuring Beth, Chris, Michael Morelli, Vivian Asimos and Jonathan Tuckett, titled “AI and Religion: An Initial Conversation” and a special issue of the RSP journal Implicit Religion, co-edited by Dr Singler, on Artificial Intelligence and Religion, published in 2017. |
DATE | 2020-02-03 08:00:16 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/artificial-intelligence-and-religion/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/technology-developer-touch-finger.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Artificial Intelligence, Discourse, Ethics, narrative, science, transhumanism | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/53Olcqp1-HI | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSP-321-Singler-regular-2.mp4 | |
EXCERPT: | Chris Cotter and Beth Singler discuss the intersections between religion and Artificial Intelligence from slavery and pain to machines taking over religious functions and practices. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/artificial-intelligence-and-religion-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Beth Singler
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/beth-singler/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/persons_singler_2022-scaled.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Christopher R. Cotter
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/christopher-r-cotter/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1Chris_Elephants-Breann-Fallon.jpg
RESPONSE: What is AI For?
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/what-is-ai-for/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
RESPONSE: Gaps in Our Understanding: AI, Gods, and Humanity
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/gaps-in-our-understanding-ai-gods-and-humanity/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #320, Religious Literacy is Social Justice | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Religious Literacy is Social Justice | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 320 |
This week’s podcast with Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst explores the University of Vermont’s new “Religious Literacy for Professionals” certificate. Framing religious literacy as social justice, Morgenstein Fuerst explains how her program is trying to reach undergraduates in other professional tracks at the 10 colleges around her university. With a powerful message for her students about the impact and relevance of religious studies coursework, this new program looks to prepare students for the modern America where religious affiliation is down but the need to be skilled “readers” of religion in culture is more pressing than ever. |
DATE | 2020-01-27 08:00:13 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religious-literacy-is-social-justice/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1Certificate-in-Religious-Literacy-for-Professions-David-McConeghy.png | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Higher Education, religious literacy | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/xZFgI4D7fw0 | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RSP-320-Fuerst-regular.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Is Religious Literacy social justice? In this week’s podcast with Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she discusses the University of Vermont’s new “Religious Literacy for Professionals” certificate and why religious studies does vital work for the academy. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/what-does-religious-literacy-mean-in-your-context/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/ilyse-morgenstein-fuerst/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IlyseMorgensteinFuerst.jpeg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
RESPONSE: Choosing Not to Hide Behind the Camera
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/choosing-not-to-hide-behind-the-camera/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #319, Media and the Study of Religion | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Media and the Study of Religion | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 319 |
The 2019 conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions, at Leeds Trinity University, was loosely themed on the topic ‘Visualizing Cultures: Media, Technology and Religion’, and this provided an excellent focal point for a discussion of Media and the Study of Religion more broadly. With that in mind, we convened a virtually mediated roundtable discussion with Suzanne Owen (conference organizer), Vivian Asimos and Tim Hutchings speaking with RSP co-founder Chris Cotter. These contributors bring a broad range of expertise and experience to the discussion, with work focusing upon online and digital spaces, the built environment, art, literature, broadcast media, social media, podcasting, and more. Discussion begins with the conference, before turning to how a media approach can help the study of religion, what we might mean by media and mediation, challenges of taking a media approach, the utilization of media in teaching, how to avoid reifying ‘religion’ in the process, and more. This discussion works well as a companion piece with a number of previous RSP podcasts, including Religion and the News (with Eileen Barker, Tim Hutchings, Christopher Landau, and David Gordon Wilson), Religion and the Media (with Teemu Taira), Religious Authority and Social Media (with Pauline Hope Cheong), Religion, Violence and the Media (with Jolyon Mitchell), and Visual Culture and the Study of Religion (with Birgit Meyer). |
DATE | 2020-01-20 08:01:04 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/media-and-the-study-of-religion/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/28208489145_7cbebd18e3_c.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Art, Authenticity, Digital, Identity, media, Mediation, narrative, News, Online | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/VxXFSTTLk-E | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RSP-319-Media-Roundtable-regular-1.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | Vivian Asimos, Chris Cotter, Time Hutchings and Suzanne Owen discuss the intersections of Media and the Study of Religion. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/transcript/media-and-the-study-of-religion-transcript/ |
CONTRIBUTOR: Suzanne Owen
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/suzanne-owen/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SuzanneOwen.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Vivian Asimos
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/vivian-asimos/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VivianAsimos.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Tim Hutchings
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/tim-hutchings/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tim_hutchings.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Christopher R. Cotter
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/christopher-r-cotter/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1Chris_Elephants-Breann-Fallon.jpg
RESPONSE: The Essential and Complex Relationship of Religion and Media
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/the-essential-and-complex-relationship-of-religion-and-media/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
RESPONSE: The Inauthenticity of New Media
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/the-inauthenticity-of-new-media/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #318, The Sacrality of the Secular and Philosophy of Religion | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | The Sacrality of the Secular and Philosophy of Religion | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | 318 |
Transcription forthcoming. |
DATE | 2020-01-13 08:02:46 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-sacrality-of-the-secular-and-philosophy-of-religion/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/133300599230_a452005473_k-David-McConeghy.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | needs transcription, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | Max Weber, philosophy of religion, Secular, Secularism, Secularity, Secularization thesis | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://youtu.be/rsaLiBUqNFQ | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RSP-318-Onishi-2-regular.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | In this week’s podcast, we speak with Bradley Onishi about the ways in which philosophy of religion has thought “with” religion rather than for or against religion. “It’s possible,” he says, “to hold an enchanted secularity” if we think about religions themselves as tools for questioning our basic assumptions about the world. | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Bradley Onishi
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/bradley-onishi/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BradleyOnishi.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: David McConeghy
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/david-mcconeghy/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DavidMcConeghy.jpg
RESPONSE: Webs without Borders
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/webs-without-borders/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
RESPONSE: Narrating Secularism in the Continental Philosophy of Religion: Onishi and the Enduring Consequences of the Secularization Thesis
RESPONSE_URL: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/response/narrating-secularism-in-the-continental-philosophy-of-religion-onishi-and-the-enduring-consequences-of-the-secularization-thesis/
RESPONSE_CONTRIBUTOR: // not sure how to do this yet
Episode Data for #, Discourse! #13 | January 2020 | CONTENT: | |
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TITLE: | Discourse! #13 | January 2020 | ![]() |
EPISODE_#: | ERROR |
This decade’s first episode of Discourse! is hosted by Vivian Asimos, with guests Aled Thomas and Michael Munnick. This time, the theme is “communication” – fittingly enough. The conversation covers stories about different models of Christianity among evangelical Trump supporters, the recent resurgence of the use of “cult” in popular media, Greta Thunberg as a charismatic leader and media’s downplaying of Islamic Solidarity in the Gambian justice minister’s genocide charge at the UN against Myanmar. Read the current events sources discussed in today’s episode here:
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DATE | 2020-01-07 08:00:56 | |
PERMALINK: | “https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-13-january-2020/” | |
FEATURED_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1280px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_Vienna_-_Google_Art_Project-1.jpg | |
CATEGORY: | Discourse, Podcasts, Season 9, Updated Episodes | |
TERMS: | RSP Discourse | |
TYPE: | podcast | |
YOUTUBE_LINK: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCypfitkcldmX1CpAqCp7PKw | |
AUDIO_URL: | https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Discourse-jan-2020.mp3 | |
EXCERPT: | ERROR | |
TRANSCRIPT_URL | ERROR |
CONTRIBUTOR: Aled Thomas
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/aled-thomas/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/AledThomas.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Michael Munnik
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/michael-munnik/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/munnik_headshot_square.jpg
CONTRIBUTOR: Vivian Asimos
BIO LINK: "https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/persons/vivian-asimos/"
HEADSHOT: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VivianAsimos.jpg