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 […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 15 December 2020
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find three conference call for papers, one event, one conference, and one fellowship opportunities. As always, thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon and […]
The Weakest Link! | Mid-Year Special 2020 (with video)
It’s a COVID-style international spectacular for the ninth(!) annual RSP mid-season special. It’s time to play… the Weakest Link! Join Andie Alexander, Jonathon O’Donnel, Titus Hjelm, Naomi Goldenberg, Sidney Castillo, Russell McCutcheon, Ray Radford, and Megan Goodwin as David Robertson fires questions at them and Chris Cotter remotely operates PowerPoint! Who will win the coveted fictional research funding?
Religion and Ecology Has a Whiteness Problem. Let’s Confront It.
Restoring marginalized voices to the scholarship on religion and ecology is essential decolonial praxis, writes Amanda J. Baugh in this response to our episode with Gretel Van Wieren on “Climate Change(s).”
Amanda J. Baugh
Amanda J. Baugh is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge. As a scholar of religious studies and the environmental humanities, Baugh specializes in the study of religion, race, and environmental values among diverse American groups. Her first book, God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White, examines […]
Surviving Sexual Abuse: The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
In this episode, Breann Fallon talks to Dr. Kathleen McPhillips about her work on the Catholic Church and the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
Kathleen McPhillips
Kathleen McPhillips is a sociologist of religion, gender and trauma at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has written and published extensively in the field of gender-based violence and institutional child sexual abuse. Her work considers the social and gender impacts of institutional violence in religious organisations and particularly the Catholic Church. Kathleen attended the […]
Locked In, Locked Down, and Vaccinated? On Agency and Autonomy | Discourse! November 2020
This month’s Discourse! – with Chris Cotter, Ray Kim, and Theo Wildcroft – kicks off with a festive twist on our now-traditional focus upon Covid-19 to discuss recent relaxations in restrictions in the UK, halal vaccinations, and much more.
Ray Kim
Ray Kim is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University who works primarily within the field of sociology of religion. His dissertation looks at how and why halal, an Islamic religious and legal category, became a hot button issue in South Korea starting in 2009. By taking a discourse analysis approach, he examines how halal became […]
Hidden and Also Shared Around the Globe
How can Jewish Studies help us rethink concepts like “the political”? In this response to our episode featuring Carsten Wilke interviewed by Sidney Castillo, Jonathan Garb highlights additional aspects of “the rise of kabbalah as a potent cultural force in the early modern period” that challenge the limits of cross-cultural comparison.
Jonathan Garb
Born in South Africa, Jonathan Garb is the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah and lectures in the department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which he chaired 2017-2018. In 2014, he was awarded the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities’ Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research. He has lectured and researched in, […]
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 26 November 2020
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find one fellowship, one journal call for papers, and one event opportunities. Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon and PayPal options. We are aiming for […]
Politics, Kabbalah, and Beyond: Jewish Studies and the Study of Religion
In this episode, Sidney Castillo talks with Dr. Carsten Wilke about his approach to Jewish studies and his research on the development of Jewish mysticism in early modern Europe.
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 […]
Carsten Wilke
Dr. Carsten Wilke is a Professor in the Departments of History, and Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. He is also the Director of the Center for Religious Studies of the University. He teaches in both departments and at the Jewish Studies Program courses related to Jewish history, Jewish cultural heritage, and historiography. […]