Global Flows, Local Contexts: Pentecostalism in Australia [transcript]

Global Flows, Local Contexts: Pentecostalism in Australia Podcast with Cristina Rocha (16/11/2020). Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/global-flows-local-contexts-pentecostalism-in-australia/ David McConeghy (DM)  0:04  My name is Dave McConeghy, and I’m delighted to share the studio today with Professor Cristina Rocha. Professor Rocha is a cultural anthropologist and […]

Cristina Rocha

Professor Cristina Rocha is a cultural anthropologist and director of the Religion and Society Research Cluster. She is a former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (2018-2019). She co-edits the Journal of Global Buddhism and the Religion in the Americas series, Brill. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Utrecht (NL), Kings […]

Politics, Religion, Decolonisation

How will excluded, “interested” voices return to the academy through decolonization? Find out in this response to our interview with Natalie Avalos by Eleanor Tiplady Higgs.

Eleanor Tiplady Higgs

Eleanor Tiplady Higgs received her PhD in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London in 2018. She is an outgoing Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies (2018-2020), University of Cape Town, South Africa, and shortly to begin a Fellowship at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2020-2021). Her […]

Religious Studies Digest – 11 November 2020

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find two summer fellowship and one call for book proposal 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 […]

Rhizomes, Assemblages, and Religious Change

What would a post-humanist model of religious and social worlds look like? Paul-Francois Tremlett tells David G. Robertson about a new approach which prioritises flow and transformation.

Rhizomes, Assemblages, & Religious Change [transcript]

Rhizomes, Assemblages, & Religious Change Podcast with Paul-François Tremlett (9 November 2020). Interviewed by David G. Robertson Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/rhizomes-assemblages-and-religious-change KEYWORDS Secularization, Sociology, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Assemblage David Robertson (DR)  00:02 I’m David Robertson. And today I very pleased to be joined by Paul-François Tremlett, my colleague, […]

Religion & Gender

Please enjoy this selection of episodes that frame the challenges and rewards of the critical framework of gender for religious studies scholarship.

Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black Atlantic Traditions

In this episode we discuss Elizabeth Perez’s award-winning book *Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions*. Listen in to learn more about how religious subjectivity is constructed around the process of preparing ritual meals in the Lucumí tradition.

Elizabeth Pérez

Elizabeth Pérez is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, Religion inthe Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black AtlanticTraditions (New York University Press, 2016) won the 2017 CliffordGeertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion from the Society for theAnthropology of Religion, and received Honorable Mention for theCaribbean […]

Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black Atlantic Traditions [transcript]

Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black Atlantic Traditions Podcast with Elizabeth Pérez (2 November 2020). Interviewed by Savannah H. Finver Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/kitchens-and-constructions-of-religious-subjectivity-in-black-atlantic-traditions/(opens in a new tab) KEYWORDS Lucumí, micropractices, gender, ritual, sacrifice, cooking, discourse Savannah Finver (SF)  00:04 Hello, and welcome to another episode of […]

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 28 October 2020

Welcome to another edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find one conference call for papers and one PhD position. 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 100 patrons (currently […]

Presidentialism, or “Who’s Your Daddy?” | Discourse! October 2020

In this October 2020 episode of Discourse!, Andie Alexander, Hina Muneeruddin, and Leslie Dorrough Smith explore ideas of infantile citizens, political debates as spectacle, rhetoric as bumper bowling, fist-fighting viruses, and fake news in the discourses surrounding the US Presidential election.

Presidentialism, or, “Who’s Your Daddy?” | Discourse! October 2020 [transcript]

Presidentialism, or, “Who’s Your Daddy?”: Discourse! October 2020 Podcast with Hina Muneeruddin and Leslie Dorrough Smith (26 October 2020). Interviewed by Andie Alexander Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/presidentialism-or-whos-your-daddy-discourse-october-2020/ KEYWORDS Religion and Politics, 2020 Presidential Election, Nationalism, Spectacle, COVID, Masculinity, Gender, Fear, Religious Rhetoric, Lauren Berlant, Trauma, Presidentialism, Absent Authority, Craig […]

Hina Muneeruddin

Hina Muneeruddin is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Islamic Studies track of the Religious Studies program and a graduate certificate candidate in Women and Gender Studies. Hina’s research lies at the intersections of Islam(s), gender, race, affect, and performativity within the United States. More specifically, she […]