Religious Symbols, Secularism, and Culture Wars
In this episode, Matt Sheedy joins RSP co-editor Andie Alexander to discuss his recent book Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility and unpack common assumptions about secularism and religion in the public sphere.
Israel L. Domínguez
Israel L. Domínguez is a doctoral student in the Religion in the Américas track of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His interests include queer theory, disability theory, and borderlands study. His work focuses on curanderismo of the US-México borderlands, colonial resistance, and decolonization. Israel works as […]
The Now of Digital Humanities in Religious Studies
Responding to our interview with Chris Cantwell and Kristian Petersen, Jeri E. Wieringa builds on the conversations of research evaluation and sustainability issues in digital humanities projects and unpacks what is at stake in how we define DH work and projects.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 10 November 2021
Hello and thank you for checking out this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find three events and one job. A gracious thank you to all of you that have has generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons […]
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India in the Early Modern Period [transcript]
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India During the Early Modern Period Podcast with István Perczel (08 November 2021). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Sidney Castillo Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/when-christians-meet-each-other/ KEYWORDS Saint Thomas Christians, Kerala, Early Modern Period, historiography, source language, mysticism. Sidney Castillo (SC) 0:00 Now, […]
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India in the Early Modern Period
What happens when Christianities meet each other? Find out in this week’s episode of the RSP, where Sidney Castillo talks with István Perczel on his research of the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, and their encounters with Catholic missionaries and Western colonial powers in the early modern period.
István Perczel
István Perczel is Professor of Byzantine and Eastern Christian studies in the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his Candidatus Scientiae degree in 1995 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has extensively worked on Late Antique and Patristic philosophy. In the year 2000, he initiated the digitization and […]
The Importance and Challenges of the Digital Humanities
In this response, Isaac Weiner builds on the discussions in our recent interview with Chris Cantwell and Kristian Petersen by exploring how scholars can work to make digital humanities projects more accessible, how we can avoid exploiting the labor of early career scholars, and how we can take the affective experience of these projects into consideration.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 3 November 2021
Welcome to the first November edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find two jobs and one summer program. A gracious thank you to all of you that have has generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 38!) […]
Isaac Weiner
Isaac Weiner is associate professor of religious studies in the department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism (NYU Press, 2014), co-editor with Joshua Dubler of Religion, Law, USA (NYU Press, 2019), and co-director with Amy DeRogatis of the American […]
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion
In this episode, Dr. Craig Martin joins Savannah Finver to discuss his forthcoming book, Discourse and Ideology: A Critique of the Study of Culture. Dr. Martin shares with us his motivations for writing this book, describes his primary methodologies and the key concepts he introduces in the text, and explains some of his thoughts on the utility of religion as a category of analysis in religious studies scholarship.
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion [transcript]
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion Podcast with Craig Martin (1 November 2021). Interviewed by Savannah H. Finver Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/discourse-analysis-and-ideology-critique-in-the-study-of-religion/ KEYWORDS Critique, Discourse, Ideology, Language, Material Conditions, Post-structuralism, Power, Rhetoric Savannah Finver (SF) 0:04 Hello listeners and welcome back to The Religious Studies […]
Jacob Noblett
Jacob Noblett is a Master’s student in the Project Management program at New York University. He currently works as a school administrator, and is interested in the relationship between religion and its role in education. His past work examined the impact of religious mass hysteria on the American legal system. He also works as a […]
Reflections on “Religious Racism”
Responding to our interview with Danielle N. Boaz, J. Brent Crosson reflects on when and how African diaspora practices are classified as “religion” or “witchcraft” and unpacks the socio-legal effects of these categorizations.
J. Brent Crosson
J. Brent Crosson is an anthropologist of religion and secularism who works in the Caribbean. His research has focused on contestations over the limits of legal power, science, and religion in the Americas. His first book—Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion—is published with University of Chicago Press (2020). His current research focuses […]