Race, Religious Freedom and Empire in Post- War Japan [transcript]
Race, Religious Freedom and Empire in Post- War Japan Podcast with Jolyon Thomas (11 May 2020). Interviewed by Brett Esaki. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Brett Esaki (BE): Welcome to sunny San Diego. I’m Brett Esaki, and I’m really excited to talk about your book today. So the book, Faking Liberties, […]
What Does Religious Literacy Mean in Your Context? [transcript]
What Does Religious Literacy Mean in Your Context? Podcast Roundtable discussion with Richard Newton, Chris Jones, Rebekka King, Jenna Gray- Hildenbrand, Kevin Minster and Bradley Onishi (25 May 2020). Interviewed by David McConeghy. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: David McConeghy (DMcC): Hello! I’m David McConeghy, and I’m again at the American […]
Decolonizing the Study of Religion [transcript]
Decolonizing the Study of Religion Podcast with Malory Nye (30 June 2020). Interviewed by Christopher Cotter. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/decolonizing-the-study-of-religion/ Christopher Cotter (CC): Regular Listeners to the Religious Studies Project will probably be quite familiar with the critique that the whole notion of the category of religion, and particularly […]
Which Voice Speaks?
Russell McCutcheon writes that the ongoing scholarly issues raised by critical theorists about the category of religion, reflected by McCutcheon, Timothy Fitzgerald and others, reflect the reality that “old habits die hard because they are situated within larger contexts that organize our sense of who we are in relation to others.” This includes “discourses on religion” which “many scholars seem to have no choice but to continue to see as self-evident in their meaning and application”
American Religion, a New Journal for the Discipline and an Opportunity to Reimagine How We Theorize
The “capacious model” proposed by editors Sarah Imhoff and Cooper Harriss for the new journal American Religion “could set this journal apart from standard approaches to the study of American religion,” writes Andrea R. Jain in this response to RSP Episode 323.
Intellectual Journeys: Insights from Timothy Fitzgerald’s Work
Craig Martin writes of the lesson he learned from Timothy Fitzgerald’s work: “Reading widely outside of religious studies allows us to integrate the knowledge from different fields or disciplines, making connections where theories or claims overlap, or noting where some approaches allow us to answer some of my questions in a more sophisticated way than other approaches.”
The Politics of Religious Freedom and the Criminalization of Blackness
Bishop Brathwaite’s story points out to us the degree to which the ghostly histories of enslaved and colonized peoples continue to haunt the present from the graves of colonial infrastructures and through repurposed modes of colonial regulation. We can include in this the category of religion and its promised freedom as sites for such hauntings as well
Jennifer Uzzell
Jennifer Uzzell is a PhD student at Durham University working under the auspices of the Centre for Death and Life Studies and based in the department of Theology and Religion. She is conducting research into death rites among contemporary Druids in the UK. She completed her MA in World Religions at the University of Wales, […]
Wendy Fletcher
Dr. Fletcher’s areas of specialization include the history of race and racism in Canada, the intersection of culture and Christianity in the 20th century – including the story of gender and women’s experience in religious leadership, the history of colonization and its impact on Canadian First Nations, and the decline of Christianity in the North […]
New Directions in the Study of Scientology – A View from the Academy
Each of the scholars involved on this panel has raised some of the historical and contemporary challenges associated with studying Scientology (or, as they suggest, “Scientologies”) and their thoughts about potential directions forward in circumstances which can sometimes feel like a frustrating research impasse. To my mind, what has stood out most clearly across the […]
Joyce Miller
Joyce Miller retired in 2007 from the post of Head of Diversity and Cohesion at Education Bradford where she led a team promoting community cohesion, race equality and respect for diversity. This included responsibility for religious education and the Interfaith Education Centre. She has been appointed to the Commission on Religious Education, 2016-2018 and is […]
Editors’ Picks, Summer 2018: The Co-Dependency of Religion and the Secular
In our fifth editors’ pick, Marek Sullivan writes “Few questions are as meta-reflexive as the question ‘Is secularism a world religion?’ It’s now established that secularism and religion are co-constitutive terms: the history of the category ‘religion’ is inseparable from the history of secularisation.
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 15 May 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find details of three conferences, as well as a lecture and two job opportunities.
We would also like to take this opportunity to inform subscribers of a sad loss to the study of religion. Professor John Hinnells passed away on 3 May, aged 76.
A student response to “Hinduism”
This week we’re doing some a little different with the format of the response. Rather than have a single respondent to the interview, we opened up the opportunity to several students from the University of Edinburgh’s Religious Studies Masters program to have a stab at writing their own.
The removal and assimilation of NRM Children
Considering the title of her podcast, I was hoping that Dr Susan Palmer would speak about children in all New Religious Movements (NRM). Instead, I found myself immersed in a discussion about children in more problematic groups such as Hari Krishna, the New Unification Church, Children of God, 12 Tribes, Mormon Polygamists, and Scientology.