Christopher R. Cotter
Christopher R. Cotter is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the RSP, and CEO of The Religious Studies Project Association (SCIO). He joined The Open University, UK in January 2022 as Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Sociology and Religious Studies. He is author of The Critical Study of Non-religion: Discourse, Identification, and Locality (Bloomsbury, 2020) and co-editor of Social Identities between […]
Keep Hope Alive: Preparing for White Christian Nationalism
Tune in this week with Raymond Radford and Bradley Onishi as they discuss white Christian nationalism, evangelicalism, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and much more!
Obeah and Experiments with Power [transcript]
Obeah and Experiments with Power Podcast with J. Brent Crosson Interviewed by Ray Kim Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/obeah-and-experiments-with-power/ KEYWORDS Caribbean religions, Category of Religion, Magic, Obeah, Pentecostalism, Race, Secularism Ray Kim (RK) 0:01 Hello, everyone. Thank you for tuning in again to The Religious Studies Project. Today we are […]
The Wilderness of Mirrors: Nationalism, Religion, and Secret Intelligence [transcript]
The Wilderness of Mirrors: Nationalism, Religion, and Secret Intelligence Podcast with Michael Graziano (7 March 2022). Interviewed by Jacob Noblett Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-wilderness-of-mirrors-nationalism-religion-and-secret-intelligence/ KEYWORDS World Religions Paradigm, Catholicism, CIA, OSS, Nationalism, Comparative Religions, Propaganda, Orientalism Jacob Noblett (JN) 0:00 Hi, listeners. My name is Jacob Noblett with The […]
Shamanism, Between Tradition and Modernity
Tancredi Marrone and Andrej Kapcar, in their response to our interview with Bernd Brabec de Mori and Olivia Marcus, unpack common assumptions about ayahuasca and shamanism and outline the benefits of decolonizing current approaches and understandings.
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 […]
Islam, Politics, and Identity: The (Im)possibility of Sudan’s Islamic State [transcript]
Islam, Politics, and Identity: The (Im)possibility of Sudan’s Islamic State Podcast with Noah Salomon (7 June 2021). Interviewed by Ray Kim Transcribed by Allison B. Isidore Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/islam-politics-and-identity-the-impossibility-of-sudans-islamic-state/ KEYWORDS Islam, Sudan, Islamism, Secularization, Nation-state, Identity Ray Kim (RK) 00:01 Welcome, everyone. My name is Ray Kim, and today we have with […]
The Problem of Contextuality in Global Environmental Discourses
Decolonizing ecological studies or environmental humanities forces us to “return to the problem of context,” writes Rosemary Hancock in this response to our interview with Anna Gade.
Following Resistance
How can Islamic Studies help advance the study of religion and visual and material culture, asks Anna Bigelow in this response to our interview with Richard McGregor. One way is through “close attention to the subtleties” of context, method, and discipline that characterize work that intently follows the objects and their “multiple, shifting registers.”
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” […]
Telling Stories to Change the World
“How is a myth different from a story or narrative?” Susannah Crockford says the answer “shifts dramatically with different disciplinary definitions and assumptions.” Read on to learn why this matters in her response to our episode with Tim Stacey on “Myth-Making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion”
The U.S. Military Chaplaincy and Twentieth-Century Society [transcript]
The U.S. Military Chaplaincy and Twentieth-Century Society Podcast with Ronit Y. Stahl (22 March 2021). Interviewed by Dan Gorman, Jr. Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-u-s-military-chaplaincy-and-twentieth-century-society/ KEYWORDS Military History, Pluralism, Management, Judaism, Catholicism, Evangelical Dan Gorman (DG) 00:03 I’m speaking today with Dr. Ronit Y. Stahl, Assistant Professor of History at […]
Amplifying Survivors’ Voices
In this response to our episode with Kathleen McPhillips on the Australian Royal Commission’s Report on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Jack Downey offers a wider global lens on the challenges the Catholic Church faces regarding sexual abuse.
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at Indiana University’s School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Economics from Brown University, his Master of […]
Politics, Kabbalah, and Beyond: Jewish Studies and the Study of Religion [transcript]
Politics, Kabbalah, and Beyond: Jewish Studies and the Study of Religion Podcast with Carsten Wilke (23 November 2020). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by David McConeghy and Breann Fallon Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/politics-kabbalah-and-beyond-jewish-studies-and-the-study-of-religion/ KEYWORDS Judaism, kabbalah, politics, medieval studies Sidney Castillo Cárdenas (SCC) 00:01 So, it’s after a long week of discussion last […]