Seasons
The RSP SEASON by Season Season 9 (2019-2020) Season 8 (2018-2019) Season 7 (2017-2018) Season 6 (2016-2017) Season 5 (2015-2016) Season 4 (2014-2015) Season 3 (2013-2014) Season 2 (2012-2013) Season 1 (2012) Season 9 (2019-2020) Season 8 (2018-2019) Season 7 (2017-2018) Season 6 (2016-2017) Season 5 (2015-2016) Season 4 (2014-2015) Season 3 (2013-2014) Season 2 […]
Religion and Science Fiction
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Editor’s Picks
When Islam Is Not a Religion David McConeghy Co-editor David McConeghy recommends Ben Marcus‘ interview with Asma Uddin from season nine, “When Islam Is Not a Religion.” Asma Uddin explains why the American legal system treats Muslims differently. In her work Uddin examines who controls the decisions about what’s religious or political, and in this […]
Season 9: 2019-2020
September 23, 2019 Podcast Natural Selection In the Evolution of Religion In this week’s podcast, professor Armin Geertz outlines an answer elaborating on the arguments presented in his co-authored book The Emergence and Evolution of Religion by Means of Natural Selection. He argues that there are multilevel selection processes that happen within different sociocultural formations, […]
Natural Selection in the Evolution of Religion [transcript]
Natural Selection in the Evolution of Religion Podcast with Armin Geertz (23 September 2019). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Geertz_-_Natural_Selection_in_the_Evolution_of_Religion_1.1 Sidney Castillo (SC): Well, now we are back at the RSP. I’m now with Professor Armin Geertz. It’s now the fourth day of the EASR conference in […]
How Religious Freedom Makes Religion [transcript]
How Religious Freedom Makes Religion Podcast with Tisa Wenger (30 September 2019). Interviewed by David G. Robertson Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio transcript available at: David Robertson (DR): I’m joined today by Tisa Wenger. We’re here in Hanover at the DVRV conference. However, we’re not going to be talking about the German context. We’re going […]
When Archive Meets A.I.: Computational Humanities Research on a Danish Secular Saint [transcript]
When Archive Meets A.I.: Computational Humanities Research on a Danish Secular Saint Podcast with Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig (7 October 2019). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at Sidney Castillo (SC): So, we are here at the EASR conference in Tartu, Estonia. And we are just moving around between different […]
The Secularisation of Discourse in Contemporary Latin American Neoconservatism [transcript]
The Secularisation of Discourse in Contemporary Latin American Neoconservatism Podcast with Jerry Espinoza Rivera (21 October 2019). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-secularisation-of-discourse-in-contemporary-latin -american-neoconservatism/ PDF for download available here. Sidney Castillo (SC): Now we’re still in the fourth day of the EASR Conference 2019, in Tartu Estonia. […]
EASR Publishing Roundtable 2019 [transcript]
EASR Publishing Roundtable 2019 Podcast with Michael Stausberg, Gregory D. Alles, Joshua Wells, Valerie Hall, Jenny Butler, James White and Suzanne Owen (28 October 2019). Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/easr-publishing-roundtable-2019/ PDF version of the transcript available here. Suzanne Owen (SO): Welcome, this evening, to the panel on how to get […]
Lady Death and the Pluralisation of Latin American Religion [transcript]
Lady Death and the Pluralisation of Latin American Religion Podcast with R. Andrew Chesnut (31 October 2019). Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: PDF version of the transcript is available here. David McConeghy (DMcC): Welcome. I am David McConeghy, and today I’m joined by Dr R. Andrew Chesnut, […]
Reflections on the “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith” Conference at NTNU [transcript]
Reflections on the “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith” Conference at NTNU Podcast with Aaron W. Hughes (11 November 2019). Interviewed by Andie Alexander Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: PDF of this transcript available for download here. Andie Alexander: (AA): Welcome to the Religious Studies Project. I’m Andie Alexander, a doctoral student […]
Doctors and Stigmatics in the 19th and 20th Centuries [transcript]
Doctors and Stigmatics in the 19th and 20th Centuries Podcast with Gábor Klaniczay (18 November 2019). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Doctors and Stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries Sidney Castillo (SC): Well, here we are again at the Religious Studies Project Podcast. It’s the fifth […]
Straight White American Jesus, the Podcast [transcript]
Straight White American Jesus, the Podcast Podcast with Bradley Onishi (25 November 2019). Interviewed by David McConeghy Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: PDF at https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Onishi_-_Straight_White_American_Jesus-_the_Podcast_1.1.pdf David McConeghy (DMcC): Welcome. My name is David McConeghy. And today I’m joined by Dr Bradley Onishi, Associate Professor of Religion at Skidmore College in New […]
Unbelief as a Nuanced Phenomenon: The Sociality of Nonreligion across Europe [transcript]
Unbelief as a Nuanced Phenomenon: The Sociality of Nonreligion across Europe Podcast with David Herbert and Josh Bullock (2 December 2019). Interviewed by Sidney Castillo Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Transcript available at: Sidney Castillo (SC): Hello! I’m here now with Josh Bullock and David Herbert. We are at the EASR Conference 2019 in Tartu, Estonia, […]
Secular Jewish Millennials in Israel/Palestine [transcript]
Secular Jewish Millennials in Israel/Palestine Podcast with Stacey Gutowski (9 December 2019). Interviewed by Christopher Cotter Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Christopher Cotter (CC): In the popular imaginary Israel/ Palestine is, and has always been, a contested territory associated with secret sites, the Abrahamic religions, religion-related conflicts and a volatile political […]