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The Religious Studies Project — 299 episodes
Harm, AI, and Religion | Discourse! June 2023
Mediatizing “Evangelicalism”: Authenticity, Identity, and Power
What’s Sincerity Got to Do With American Secularism?
What’s Happening Down Under? | Discourse! May 2023
Charting the Playful & Proper Study of Religion
Supreme Court to Coulter: Negotiating Religion in the Public Sphere | Discourse! April 2023
Keep Hope Alive: Preparing for White Christian Nationalism
Religion under Attack? | Discourse! March 2023
The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: Religion without God
Spitting on the Sacred: Politics and Redefining Profanation
Religious Literacy and Its Discontents | Discourse! February 2023
Navigating the Discursive Study of Religion
Where was God?: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust
Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film
Oversimplified Binaries | Discourse! January 2023
Interrogating the Interrogators: Managing Muslims in Germany
Realities (Altered & Virtual) | Discourse! November 2022
Queens of the World | Discourse! October 2022
Secular Spaces? | Discourse! September 2022
Shifting the Focus of Graduate Education in the Study of Religion
Reflections on REF 2021
Presentism and Politics | Discourse! August 2022 (with video)
Unruly Women: Neocolonialism, Race, and Discrimination
Authorities and the Past | Discourse! June 2022 (with video)
Abortion, Climate Change Protests, & Ukraine Invasion | Discourse! May 2022 (with video)
Cults and NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I
Curanderismo Roundtable
Semana Santa, Diversifying the Seder, Prayer in High School Football, and… Derry Girls? | Discourse! April 2022
Sunday in the Park with Theory
Obeah and Experiments with Power
How “Woke” Is Your Textbook?: Introducing Religious Studies in the 2020s
Ukraine Invasion, Philippine Elections, and Misinformation | Discourse! March 2022 (with video)
Religious Legal Activism: Abortion Rhetoric Among British Evangelicals
The Wilderness of Mirrors: Nationalism, Religion, and Secret Intelligence
The Devil is in the Details! | Discourse! February 2022 (with video)
The Insider/Outsider Problem: An RSP Remix
Spiritual Abuse Roundtable
The Critical Humanist Study of Islam
When Religion Doesn’t Behave | Discourse! January 2022 (with video)
Questioning the Silver Bullet: Critical Approaches for the Study of Ayahuasca
The Strange Charm of Gnosticism
Genealogy of the Jewish Notion
Religious Freedom, Exemption, and Festivals in Australia | Discourse! November 2021 (with video)
The World Religions Paradigm: An RSP Remix
Religious Symbols, Secularism, and Culture Wars
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India in the Early Modern Period
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion
Religion, Bodies, and the State | Discourse! October 2021
Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix
Mapping the Digital Study of Religion
Deconstructing ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan
#ClassificationMatters | Discourse! September 2021 (with video)
History Repeated: Religious Conspiracy Theories Then and Now
Law, Religious Racism, and Religions of the African Diaspora
How Critical Race Theory became a Moral Panic | Discourse! June 2021 (with video)
Sovereignty and Spiritual Warfare
South American Austral Religions in an Ethnohistorical Comparative Perspective
Islam, Politics, and Identity: The (Im)possibility of Sudan’s Islamic State
On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021 (with video)
Masculinity and the Body Languages of Catholicism
Conspiracy Theories, Public Rhetoric, and Power
Manifestos and the Academic Study of Religion
Power and Diversity in 4th Century Martyr Shrines
The New Satanic Panic and the Return of Blasphemy | Discourse! April 2021
Comparing Methods in Christian Origins
Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action
On the Tantricization of Jain Ascetic Rituals
Human Rights in Australia | Discourse! March 2021
The U.S. Military Chaplaincy and Twentieth-Century Society
Sex Scandals and Minoritized Religions
Following the Objects: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria
Race and the Aliites
Religious Climate Activism | Discourse! February 2021
Beyond Ecological Essentialism: Critical and Constructive Muslim Environmentalisms
Myth-making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion
Sacred Trees: Belief, Mythology, and Practice
Politics and Conspirituality | Discourse! January 2021
The Lie at the Heart of America
Thanks for Listening! Celebrating 10 Years of the RSP
The Weakest Link! | Mid-Year Special 2020 (with video)
Surviving Sexual Abuse: The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Locked In, Locked Down, and Vaccinated? On Agency and Autonomy | Discourse! November 2020
Politics, Kabbalah, and Beyond: Jewish Studies and the Study of Religion
Global Flows, Local Contexts: Pentecostalism in Australia
Rhizomes, Assemblages, and Religious Change
Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black Atlantic Traditions
Presidentialism, or “Who’s Your Daddy?” | Discourse! October 2020
Ancient Christian Origins: A Heterogeneous History
Climate Change(s): New Approaches to Environmental and Agricultural Ethics
Roots as Scripture and Scripture as Roots
Religious Festivals during COVID-19 | Discourse! September 2020
The Fetish Revisited: Objects, Hierarchies, and BDSM
Navigating stasis and mobility: The journey of anointing oil
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Ritual
The Roots of QAnon | Discourse! August 2020
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion
Decolonizing Religious Studies and Its Layers of Complicity
Decolonizing the Study of Religion
The Science of Prayer: Genealogies and Biopolitics
Discourse! June 2020
Holocaust Museums as Sacred-Secular Space
Exploring African Shamanism and White Sangomas in South Africa
What does religious literacy mean in your context?
Discourse! May 2020 with David G. Robertson, Suzanne Owen, and Craig Martin
Race, Religious Freedom & Empire in Post-War Japan
May the Fourth Be With You
Boxing and Religious Identity
Discourse! April 2020 with Christopher Cotter, Chris Silver and Savannah Finver
Near Death Experiences
Challenging the Normative Stance of Aniconism in the Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The Public Square and the Heart of Culture War
Discourse! March 2020 with Theo Wildcroft, Dan Gorman, & Vivian Asimos
Empty Signs in an Automatic Signalling System
Who Are the Power Worshippers?
Narrating Belief: Vernacular Religion in India
Founding American Religion, the Journal
The Problem with ‘Religion’ (and related categories)
Discourse! February 2020 with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo
Artificial Intelligence and Religion
Religious Literacy is Social Justice
Media and the Study of Religion
The Sacrality of the Secular and Philosophy of Religion
Discourse! #13 | January 2020
Separating Religion and Government…But What Is Religion?: A Look at the US Supreme Court
Only Sixty Seconds! | Mid-Year Special 2019
Discourse #12 | December 2019
Applied Religious Studies at Georgia State University
Secular Jewish Millennials in Israel/Palestine
Unbelief as a Nuanced Phenomenon: The Sociality of Nonreligion across Europe
Straight White American Jesus, the podcast
Discourse #11 | Oct 2019
Doctors and Stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries
Reflections on “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith”
Lady Death and the Pluralization of Latin American Religion
EASR 2019 Publishing Panel
The secularization of discourse in contemporary Latin American neoconservatism
BASR 2019: The State of the Discipline
When Archive Meets A.I. – Computational Humanities Research on a Danish Secular Saint
How Religious Freedom Makes Religion
Discourse #10 |Sept 2019
Natural Selection In the Evolution of Religion
When Islam Is Not a Religion
Discourse #8 (June 2019)
Discourse, Australia Edition
Spatial Contestations and Conversions
Philology and the Comparative Study of Myths
Science Fiction, Video Games, and Religion
Religion, Food Waste, and Food Consumption
Buddhism in the critical classroom
Critical Approaches to Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam
Demystifying the Study of Religion
Nonreligion, Religion, and Public Health
What is Mindfulness? A Critical Religious Studies Approach
Atheism, New Religious Movements, and Cultural Tension
Discussing Pious Fashion and Muslim Dress Beyond the Headscarf
Challenges and Responsibilities for the Public Scholar of Religion
LDS Garments and Agency
Discourse #6, March Edition: With Joel Ritala, Jarno Sandberg, Anton Stranden, and Martta Tenhu
Religion and Multiculturalism in Canada and Beyond
Christian Beauty Pageants: Beauty is in the eye of the creator
Melodies of Change: Music and Progressive Judaism
America’s Changing Religious Landscape
America’s Dark Theologian Stephen King: A Religious Imagination Explored
Slenderman and online mythology
The Study of Religion and National Identity in Estonia
Religion as a Tactic of Governance
Young People and Religion in a Global Perspective
The Therwil Affair: Handshakes in Swiss Schools
Negotiating Gender in Contemporary Occultism
A Global Study on Government Restrictions and Social Hostilities Related to Religion
Religion, Education, and Politics in Australia and NZ
New Directions in the Study of Scientology
The Hugging Guru: Amma and Transnationalism
RE Commission report: A Way Forward?
Preserving identity and empowering women. How do Canadian Muslim schools affect their students?
The ‘secular’, the ‘religious’, and the ‘refugee’ in Germany
A Dark Goddess: An inter-religious language for feminine spirituality
Representations of Religious Studies in Popular Culture
Ecospirituality, Gender and Nature
What is the point of of academic conferences?: A roundtable discussion
The Gods of Indian Country
What We Can Learn from our Founding Fathers
Spirituality
“Soka Gakkai, Kōmeitō and the religious voices of Japan’s political arena
Muslim Superheroes
Worldviews and Ways of Life
From Static Categories to a River of Theories: “The Myth of Disenchantment”
Situating Religion within Justice
Stereotyping Religion: Critical Approaches to Pervasive Cliches
Why do we believe? Evolution, Primates, and the Human Niche
Drone Metal Mysticism
Myth, Solidarity, and Post-Liberalism
Magic and Modernity
Religious change in Japanese Shinto
The BASR and the Impact of Religious Studies
‘Good’ Grief? Rituals of World Repairing
From Non-Religion to Unbelief? A developing field…
Against Invention: A richer history for ‘Hinduism’
God and Mathematics
Autism, Religion, and Imagination
African American Spiritual Churches
The Legacy of Edward Tylor – Roundtable
The Political Relevance of the Sociology of Religion
Scrape My Barrel! | Mid-Year Special 2017 (with video)
Drawn to the Gods – Religion, Comedy and Animated Television Programs
Children in New Religious Movements
Christian evangelical organisations in global anti-trafficking networks
Changing Your Story: Assessing Ex-Member Narratives
Muslims, NGOs, and the future of democratic space in Myanmar
Hyper-Real Religion, Digital Capitalism, and the Pygmalion Effect
Beyond ‘Faith-Based Organizations’: Religion and NGOs in comparative perspective
Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes
Muslim NGOs and civil society in Indonesia
‘Modelling Religion’ and the Integration of the Sciences and the Humanities in the Bio-cultural Study of Religion
What do we mean by Indigenous Religion(s)?
Hindu Traditions in Contemporary British Communities
Islamic Millennialism
Black Religious Movements and Religio-Racial Identities during the Great Migration
Evangelical Yoga: Cultural Appropriation and Translation in American Religions
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology
Angel Spirituality
Jesuits, Mormons, and American Religion in the World
Millennialism and Violence?
Witchcraft in Rural Slovenia
Minority Religions in the Secret Police Archives
Studying Tantra from Within and Without
Sexual Ethics and Islam
Politics of this world: Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal movements in Peru
Misplaced Faith?: A theory of supernatural belief as misattribution
Reinventing Graduate Education in the Study of Religion
Religion and the Psy-Disciplines
Six Scholars Discuss the Dissertation to First Book Process
South American church-state relations
Religion, Gender, and Gender Violence
Yoga in Museums
Religious Freedom in America: Theoretical Considerations
AI and Religion: An Initial Conversation
Study of Religion in Peru
Religion, Science and Evolutionary Theory
Religion, Spirituality, and Addiction Recovery
Comedy, Comedians, and Church: The Interplay between Religion and Humor
The Unverifiable Truth-Claim! | Mid-Year Special 2016 (with video)
New Horizons in the Sociology of Religion: Beyond Secularization?
Sociology of Religion – and Religious Studies?
Is Secularism a World Religion?
Researching Radicalisation
Death, Music, and Ritual: Contemporary Requiems in the Commemoration of Death and Violence
Religion, Youth, and Intergenerationality
Researching Religious Diversity
Evangelicalism and Civic Space
A Critical Introduction to the History, Beliefs, and Practices of Wiccans
Religion and Feminism
Communism and Catholicism: Religion and Religious Studies in Lithuania
An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
Categorising “Religion”: From Case Studies to Methodology
Global(ized) religion and the study of religious tensions
Historical, Popular, and Scholarly Constructions of Yoga
Embodied religious practices, child psychology and cognitive neuroscience
ISKCON And When New Religions Aren’t So New Anymore
ISKCON In Britain
The “Axial Age”: Problematising Religious History in a Post-Colonial Setting
BDSM as Religious Practice
Permutations of Secularism
UFOs, Conspiracy Theories… and Religion?
Popular Culture, Dr. Who, and Religion
Conversion and Deconversion as Concepts in the Sociology of Religion
Descriptions of Religion as Explanations of Religion
DEATH, Religion, and Terror Management Theory
Music, Marketing and Megachurches
From the Ku Klux Klan to Zombies
Nature alive: Amazonian religion in Peru
Identity and Capitalism
Popular Culture Studies and Bruce Springsteen: Escaping and Embracing Religion
Religious Studies as a Discipline
Method and Theory in the Cognitive Sciences of Religion
Video Games and Religious Studies
Religion and American Law
See you in the next life? Cognitive foundations of reincarnation beliefs
Getting to Know the North American Association for the Study of Religion
Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
Fourteen to One! | Mid-Year Special 2015
Minority Religions and the Law
Discursive Approaches and the Crises of Religious Studies
Gender, queer theory and religion
Religious Demography in the US
Of Demons, Saints and Heaven: Andean religious beliefs in Peru
Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion
Religion and Planetary Ethics
Religion and Film
The Invention of the Secular Academy
Religion, gender and corporeality
21st Century Irish Paganism
Lived Religion: Part 2
Lived Religion: Part 1
The Supernatural and the New Comparativism
Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
‘Religious’ and ‘Spiritual’ Struggles: Now in ‘Nonreligious’ and ‘Nonspiritual’ flavors!
Is Religion Special? A Critical Look at Religion, Wellbeing and Prosociality
Christian Reconstruction