Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 27 July 2022
Another week of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find two journal calls for papers, one conference call for papers, and one job. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 37!) to support all of […]
Cults & NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I [transcript]
Cults & NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I Podcast with Eileen Barker, Stephen Gregg, Susan J. Palmer, David G. Robertson, Tristan Sturm, and Joseph Webster (16 may 2022) Interviewed by Andie Alexander and Allison Isidore Transcribed by Jacob Noblett Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/cults-and-nrms-remix-part-i/ KEYWORDS Cults, Discourse, New Religious Movements, RSP Remix, Violence Andie […]
Cults and NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I
Tune in for Part I of our RSP Remix episodes on Cults and New Religious Movements!
The Strange Charm of Gnosticism
For our last interview of 2021 (not to worry, the Mid-Year special is coming!), our co-founder David G. Robertson is back in the interview seat discussing his new book Gnosticism and the History of Religions with our co-editor Andie Alexander. Tune in to learn more about the ‘strange charm of gnosticism’!
Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 7 July 2021
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find four journal calls for papers, seven events, eight jobs, three conference and series calls for papers, two PhD fellowships, and one book call for essays. Thank you to everyone who has generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation […]
On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021 (with video)
It’s a bumper episode of Discourse this month, as four (count them, four!) RSP editors sit down to discuss how the media are talking about religion this month. First, Breann, David, and Dave introduce Andie as the RSP’s new Managing Editor, before we discuss mass COVID cremations in India, a new synagogue at the site of a Nazi massacre in the Ukraine, protests over a new telescope in Hawaiʻi, and the scandal over the remains of the victims of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. It’s not our most lighthearted episode.
Conspiracy Theories, Public Rhetoric, and Power
“You don’t go to religious studies conferences with the title of the conference being ‘The Problem with Religion,'” so why do we use that rhetoric to talk about conspiracy theories? Listen in to Andie Alexander’s interview with RSP co-founder David G. Robertson to find out why!
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 […]
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.
New Religious Movements
No, they’re not cults, as we learn straightaway from Eileen Barker in this playlist’s first selection. Learn how religious studies scholars talk about new religious movements and some of the challenges of studying emerging groups in these episodes hand-picked by RSP co-founder David G. Robertson.
Religion as a Tactic of Governance [transcript]
Religion as a Tactic of Governance Podcast with Naomi Goldenberg (21 January 2019). Interviewed by David G. Robertson Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Goldenberg_-_Religion_as_a_Tactic_of_Governance_1.1 DR: We’re still here in Belfast at the BASR conference, in 2018. And I am privileged to be joined today by our keynote speaker from last night, […]
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 […]
Empty Signs in an Automatic Signalling System
In this week’s episode, Timothy Fitzgerald speaks with David G. Robertson about why the history of the category “religion” should make us reconsider many other modern categories like politics, liberal, secular. Can these interrelated terms ever escape their origins in centuries of colonial epistemé?
Only Sixty Seconds! | Mid-Year Special 2019
For our eighth(!) annual special, Only Sixty Seconds returns! This time, Chris Cotter is your host, as David G. Robertson returns to defend his 2018 crown against Bettina Schmidt, Douglas Davies and Theo Wildcroft. We may not have avoided repetition, but I do not hesitate in promising you no deviation from hilarity!
Discourse #10 |Sept 2019
This month on Discourse! join David G. Robertson, Vivian Asimos and Aled Thomas at the BASR as they discuss the mythology of Zelda, austerity and evangelical Christians, and the potential arson of Crowley’s Loch Ness redoubt, Boleskine House. Links: Austerity and evangelical Christians: https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2018/June-2018/Faith-in-action-How-Christians-are-plugging-the-gap-left-by-austerity Mythology of Zelda https://youtu.be/3fr1Z07AV00 Potential arson at Boleskine House https://wildhunt.org/2019/08/update-on-boleskine-house-arson.html