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Thanks for Listening! Celebrating 10 Years of the RSP

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10 years in the making! Celebrate our decade of scholarship with this special episode, "Thanks for listening!"

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Candace Mixon

Daniel Gorman Jr.

Breann Fallon

Sidney Castillo

Thomas J. Coleman III

David McConeghy

Carole Cusack

Russell McCutcheon

David G. Robertson

Christopher R. Cotter

About this episode

Can you believe it has been 10 years? After more than 350 episodes, over 600 contributors, and the rapidly approaching milestone of a million downloads, we’re still here doing the weekly work of sharing research in the critical study of religion.

In this special episode of the Religious Studies Project podcast, the RSP team reflects on the legacy of the project and the future of our work. Co-hosts Breann Fallon and David McConeghy solicited reflections from current and former team members, and this episode features some of the highlights including comments by founders Chris Cotter and David Robertson; interviewers Candace Mixon, Sidney Castillo, and Dan Gorman; board members Russell McCutcheon and Carole Cusack, and editors Thomas Coleman and Lauren Osborne. With extreme gratitude for the many, many contributors and listeners to the Religious Studies Project for a decade of scholarship, we’re proud to say, “Thanks for listening!”

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