Sovereignty and Spiritual Warfare
Join Savannah H. Finver and Dr. S. Jonathon O’Donnell as they talk demons, American politics, interdisciplinary methodologies, and the critical study of religion.
Sovereignty and Spiritual Warfare [transcript]
Sovereignty and Spiritual Warfare Podcast with S. Jonathon O’Donnell (21 June 2021). Interviewed by Savannah H. Finver Transcribed by Allison B. Isidore Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/sovereignty-and-spiritual-warfare/ KEYWORDS Demonology, Jezebel, Discourse Analysis, Evangelical, Religious Studies, Critical Savannah Finver (SF) 0:03 Hello listeners and welcome back to The Religious Studies Project. My name is Savannah […]
“A Space of Encounter:” The U.S. Military and American Religious Pluralism
Raymond Haberski, Jr. writes that our interview with Ronit Stahl about Military chaplaincy “provides a nuanced picture of pluralism” in the United States. This reveals how massive institutions like the U.S. military operationalize pluralism to “both incorporate difference and flatten distinctions.”
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 June 2021
Another week, another edition of the week’s Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find one PhD position, ten events, five jobs, one fellowship, and one summer program. Deepest thank you to everyone who has generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! We are at 43 patrons out of our goal of […]
Sarah Griffis
Sarah Griffis is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Her work focuses on early Christians’ relationship with the classical past. Most recently, she has attended to the crafting of Christian texts, especially martyr literature, as a practice of both forming distinctively Christian ideology and legibly inscribing this […]
Joel Bordeaux
Joel Bordeaux is a specialist in South Asian religions interested in how esotericism, political authority, and canonical works of literature mediate differences between communities. He received his BA from Georgia State University in 2003 and PhD from Columbia University in 2015. He is presently a research fellow at the International Institute for Indian Studies in […]
South American Austral Religions in an Ethnohistorical Comparative Perspective
In this episode, Boris Briones talks with Sidney Castillo on his comparative research of the Mapuche and Selk’nam of austral South America. Check it out to learn a thing or two about ethnohistory and scientific divulgation!
Ishanika Sharma
Ishanika Sharma is a PhD Candidate in English at Emory University. Her research is located at the intersections of postcolonial theory and trauma theory. She is interested in how trauma and mourning inform identity construction in South Asia.
Raymond Haberski, Jr.
Raymond Haberski, Jr. is Professor of history, Director of American Studies, and Director of the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI. For the 2008–2009 academic year he held the Fulbright Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Civil Religion Today: Religion and […]
South American Austral Religions in an Ethnohistorical Comparative Perspective [transcript]
South American Austral Religions in an Ethnohistorical Comparative Perspective Podcast with Boris Briones Soto (14 June 2021). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Allison B. Isidore & Sidney Castillo Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/south-american-austral-religions-in-an-ethnohistorical-comparative-perspective/ KEYWORDS Mapuche, Selk’nam, Indigenous religions, Comparison, Ethnohistory, South American religions Sidney Castillo (SC) 0:03 And now we’re back to The […]
On Tantra, Jain Style
“The story that Dr. Gough is telling about the development of Jain tantra—the Jain adoption of mantra-practice, but rejection of antinomianism—thus seems to me to be a fundamentally noteworthy case-study,” writes Anne Mocko on our interview with Ellen Gough discussing the ‘tantricization’ of Jain ascetic rituals.
Anne Mocko
Anne Mocko is an associate professor of religion at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN). She is a scholar of South Asian religions, and her areas of interest include Hinduism and Jainism, ritual studies, religion and politics, and environmentalism. She completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 2012, and her first book Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 9 June 2021
Hello and welcome to this week’s Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find four events, three fellowships and summer programs, one conference call for papers, and one job. Thank you to everyone who has generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to reach 100 patrons (currently 42!) to […]
Islam, Politics, and Identity: The (Im)possibility of Sudan’s Islamic State
Is the Islamic state simply a reaction against the modern secular nation-state, or is there more to it? Join us as Noah Salomon answers this question among many more as he talks about his book For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State.
Rethinking Narratives of ‘American Values’ in the US Military
Jessica Cooperman writes that Stahl’s work demonstrates how racism shapes religious institutions and argues that “it points to the necessity of re-examining American narratives of religious freedom through the analytical lenses of both race and gender.”