Falguni A. Sheth
Falguni A. Sheth is Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and has published numerous articles and books, including Toward a Political Philosophy of Race (SUNY Press, 2009) and Unruly Women: Race, Neoliberalism, and the Hijab (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her most recent book explores the racial dynamics of juridical […]
Cults & NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I [transcript]
Cults & NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I Podcast with Eileen Barker, Stephen Gregg, Susan J. Palmer, David G. Robertson, Tristan Sturm, and Joseph Webster (16 may 2022) Interviewed by Andie Alexander and Allison Isidore Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/cults-and-nrms-remix-part-i/ KEYWORDS Cults, Discourse, New Religious Movements, RSP Remix, Violence Andie […]
Cults and NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I
Tune in for Part I of our RSP Remix episodes on Cults and New Religious Movements!
Sunday in the Park with Theory [transcript]
Sunday in the Park with Theory Podcast with Jason Ā. Josephson Storm (18 April 2022). Interviewed by Dan Gorman Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/sunday-in-the-park-with-theory/ KEYWORDS Metamodernism, Theory, Humanism, Social Sciences, Religion, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Modernism, Deconstruction, Semiotics, Hylosemiotics, Nature, Philosophy, Zeteticism, Stephen Sondheim, Sturgill Simpson [Musical excerpt from Sunday in the […]
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 Critical Humanist Study of Islam [transcript]
The Critical Humanist Study of Islam Podcast with Khurram Hussain (7 February 2022). Interviewed by Andie Alexander Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/the-critical-humanist-study-of-islam/ KEYWORDS Islam, Critical Religion, Critical Theory, Identity, Experience, Classification, Liberalism, Politics, Critical Humanism, Orientalism, Rhetoric Andie Alexander (AA) 0:00 Hello and welcome. I am Andie Alexander and today […]
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.
History Repeated: Religious Conspiracy Theories Then and Now [transcript]
History Repeated: Religious Conspiracy Theories Then and Now Podcast with Carmen Celestini (20 September 2021). Interviewed by Maxinne Connolly-Panagopoulos Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/history-repeated-religious-conspiracy-theories-then-and-now/ KEYWORDS Conspiracy Theories, John Birch Society, Turner Diaries, Religion, New World Order Maxinne Connolly-Panagopoulus (MCP) 3:16 Hi, I’m Dr. Maxinne Connolly-Panagopoulus. And today I’m joined by […]
Law, Religious Racism, and Religions of the African Diaspora [transcript]
Law, Religious Racism, and Religions of the African Diaspora [transcript] Podcast with Danielle N. Boaz (13 September 2021). Interviewed by Benjamin Marcus Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcasts/law-religious-racism-and-religions-of-the-african-diaspora/ KEYWORDS Religious Freedom, Africana, Diaspora, Racism, Law, Race, Power, Authenticity, Ritual Benjamin Marcus (BM) 00:07 My guest today is Dr. Danielle N. Boaz. […]
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 […]
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.
Manifestos and the Academic Study of Religion [transcript]
Manifestos and the Academic Study of Religion Podcast with Carole Cusack, Alana Louise Bowden, Ray Radford, and Sophie Roe (10 May 2021). Interviewed by Anna Lutkajtis Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/manifestos-and-the-academic-study-of-religion/ KEYWORDS Manifestos, Capitalism, Consumerism, Ritual, Performance, Dissent, Violence Anna Lutkajtis (AL) 00:03 Welcome, everyone. We are here this evening […]
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” […]
Master Archive
The Religious Studies Project Master Archive Below is the abstracted data from our episodes, presented text-only to be used in data-validation by our web team. If images or audio players appear, it is because they are contained WITHIN an episode’s post content in WordPress. The goal of this item is to be able to make […]
Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action [transcript]
Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action Podcast with Robin Veldman (April 12, 2021). Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/understanding-evangelical-opposition-to-climate-action/ David McConeghy (DM) 0:00 Welcome, my name is David McConeghy. And today, I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Robin Veldman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at […]