Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix
In the first RSP Remix, Dave McConeghy guides us through recent RSP discussions of fieldwork and its impact on scholarship. This episode features excerpts from conversations with Christopher R. Cotter, Spencer Dew, Liz Bucar, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Robin Veldman, Elizabeth Pérez, and Cristina Rocha.
New Types of Storytelling for the Non-Religious
Maria Nita says we’ve gone beyond new stories for the nonreligious in this response to our episode with Tim Stacey. We see “new types of storytelling,” she contends, and this opens exciting ethnographic opportunities for future scholarship.
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 […]
About the RSP
About the RSP What is the RSP? The Religious Studies Project (RSP) is an international collaborative enterprise producing weekly podcasts and resources on the social-scientific and critical study of religion. Since January 2012 we have released over 400 podcasts, along with response essays broadening the conversation, with religious studies scholars on cutting-edge theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues. And […]
Connecting the Parallel Lives of Critical Secular and Non-Religious Studies
Lois Lee responds to our interview with RSP co-founder Christopher R. Cotter about his latest book, The Critical Study of Non-Religion. Calling his work “a milestone” that answers the need for a “systemic intervention” in critical approaches to non-religion, Lee suggests that the parallel lives of critical secular and non-religious studies are starting to converge.
Myth-making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion
What myths do non-religious people use in their climate and environmental activism? What does the study of everyday stories bring to the study of ‘religion’ and ‘non-religion’? Find out in this interview with Dr. Tim Stacey by RSP Co-Founder Christopher R. Cotter.
Myth-making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion [transcript]
Myth-making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion Podcast with Tim Stacey (8 February 2021). Interviewed by Chris Cotter Transcribed by Andie Alexander Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/myth-making-environmentalism-and-non-religion/ KEYWORDS Myth, Stories, Narrative, Meaning, Non-Religion, Climate, Environment, Activism, Politics, Solidarity Chris Cotter (CC) 00:00 What is a myth? What might we mean by myth-making? And how could an approach […]
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.
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion
Can discourse analysis help scholars avoid the pitfalls of studying non-religion? In his new book, RSP Co-Founder Christopher R. Cotter argues it can. Speaking with co-host Breann Fallon, this interview highlights the challenges of studying non-religion while celebrating the promise of new methodologies.
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion [transcript]
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion Podcast with Christopher R. Cotter (23 August 2020) Interviewed by Breann Fallon Transcribed by Savannah H. Finver Audio and Transcript Available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/developing-a-critical-study-of-non-religion/ KEYWORDS Non-Religion, Atheism, Agnosticism, Discourse Analysis Breann Fallon (BF) 0:05 Hi, everyone, as you just heard, it is indeed me, Bre Fallon, and I am joined […]
Invented Religions [transcript]
Podcast Transcript Podcast with Carole M. Cusack on Invented Religions (30 January 2012). PDF. Interviewed by David G. Robertson (with Chris Cotter). Transcribed by Martin Lepage. David Robertson (DR): What if you choose to believe in a faith that you knew had been made up? And what if it worked all the same? That’s what Carole Cusack, Associate Professor […]
Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion [transcript]
Podcast Transcript Podcast with Armin W. Geertz on Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion (23 January 2012). PDF. Interviewed by Christopher R. Cotter. Transcribed by Travis W. Cooper. Chris Cotter (CC): Today we are joined by Professor Armin Geertz of Aarhus University. He’s the head of the Religion and Cognition and Culture Research unit (or RCC) in […]
Is Secularism a World Religion? [transcript]
A transcription of this interview is also available as a PDF, and has been pasted below. Podcast with Donovan Schaefer (28th November 2016) Interviewed by Christopher R. Cotter Transcribed by Catrin J. Sawford Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/is-secularism-a-world-religion/ Christopher R. Cotter (CC): Regular listeners to the Religious Studies Project will know that we’re not […]
Atheism, New Religious Movements and Cultural Tension [transcript]
Atheism, New Religious Movements and Cultural Tension Podcast with Chris Silver (8 April 2019). Interviewed by Kris Black. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Silver_-_Atheism,_New_Religious_Movements_and_Cultural_Tension_1.1 Kris Black (KB): How many kinds of atheism are there? Are there different kinds of atheists, different kinds of atheism, and what’s the deal between new religious […]