The Religious Studies Project

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Podcasts and Resources on the Contemporary Social-Scientific Study of Religion

Episode Date
Harm, AI, and Religion | Discourse! June 2023
Jul 04, 2023
Mediatizing “Evangelicalism”: Authenticity, Identity, and Power
Jun 12, 2023
What’s Sincerity Got to Do With American Secularism?
Jun 05, 2023
What’s Happening Down Under? | Discourse! May 2023
May 29, 2023
Charting the Playful & Proper Study of Religion
May 15, 2023
Supreme Court to Coulter: Negotiating Religion in the Public Sphere | Discourse! April 2023
May 01, 2023
Keep Hope Alive: Preparing for White Christian Nationalism
Apr 17, 2023
Religion under Attack? | Discourse! March 2023
Mar 27, 2023
The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: Religion without God
Mar 13, 2023
Spitting on the Sacred: Politics and Redefining Profanation
Mar 06, 2023
Religious Literacy and Its Discontents | Discourse! February 2023
Feb 27, 2023
Navigating the Discursive Study of Religion
Feb 20, 2023
Where was God?: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust
Feb 13, 2023
Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film
Feb 06, 2023
Oversimplified Binaries | Discourse! January 2023
Jan 30, 2023
Interrogating the Interrogators: Managing Muslims in Germany
Jan 23, 2023
Realities (Altered & Virtual) | Discourse! November 2022
Dec 19, 2022
Queens of the World | Discourse! October 2022
Oct 31, 2022
Secular Spaces? | Discourse! September 2022
Oct 13, 2022
Shifting the Focus of Graduate Education in the Study of Religion
Sep 16, 2022
Reflections on REF 2021
Sep 05, 2022
Presentism and Politics | Discourse! August 2022 (with video)
Aug 30, 2022
Unruly Women: Neocolonialism, Race, and Discrimination
Aug 29, 2022
Authorities and the Past | Discourse! June 2022 (with video)
Jun 27, 2022
Abortion, Climate Change Protests, & Ukraine Invasion | Discourse! May 2022 (with video)
May 30, 2022
Cults and NRMs: An RSP Remix, Part I
May 20, 2022
Curanderismo Roundtable
May 02, 2022
Semana Santa, Diversifying the Seder, Prayer in High School Football, and… Derry Girls? | Discourse! April 2022
Apr 25, 2022
Sunday in the Park with Theory
Apr 18, 2022
Obeah and Experiments with Power
Apr 11, 2022
How “Woke” Is Your Textbook?: Introducing Religious Studies in the 2020s
Apr 04, 2022
Ukraine Invasion, Philippine Elections, and Misinformation | Discourse! March 2022 (with video)
Mar 28, 2022
Religious Legal Activism: Abortion Rhetoric Among British Evangelicals
Mar 14, 2022
The Wilderness of Mirrors: Nationalism, Religion, and Secret Intelligence
Mar 07, 2022
The Devil is in the Details! | Discourse! February 2022 (with video)
Feb 28, 2022
The Insider/Outsider Problem: An RSP Remix
Feb 21, 2022
Spiritual Abuse Roundtable
Feb 14, 2022
The Critical Humanist Study of Islam
Feb 07, 2022
When Religion Doesn’t Behave | Discourse! January 2022 (with video)
Jan 31, 2022
Questioning the Silver Bullet: Critical Approaches for the Study of Ayahuasca
Jan 24, 2022
The Strange Charm of Gnosticism
Dec 13, 2021
Genealogy of the Jewish Notion
Dec 06, 2021
Religious Freedom, Exemption, and Festivals in Australia | Discourse! November 2021 (with video)
Nov 29, 2021
The World Religions Paradigm: An RSP Remix
Nov 22, 2021
Religious Symbols, Secularism, and Culture Wars
Nov 15, 2021
When Christians Meet Each Other: The Saint Thomas Christians of Southwest India in the Early Modern Period
Nov 08, 2021
Discourse Analysis & Ideology Critique in the Study of Religion
Nov 01, 2021
Religion, Bodies, and the State | Discourse! October 2021
Oct 25, 2021
Focus on Fieldwork: An RSP Remix
Oct 18, 2021
Mapping the Digital Study of Religion
Oct 11, 2021
Deconstructing ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan
Oct 04, 2021
#ClassificationMatters | Discourse! September 2021 (with video)
Sep 27, 2021
History Repeated: Religious Conspiracy Theories Then and Now
Sep 20, 2021
Law, Religious Racism, and Religions of the African Diaspora
Sep 13, 2021
How Critical Race Theory became a Moral Panic | Discourse! June 2021 (with video)
Jun 28, 2021
Sovereignty and Spiritual Warfare
Jun 21, 2021
South American Austral Religions in an Ethnohistorical Comparative Perspective
Jun 14, 2021
Islam, Politics, and Identity: The (Im)possibility of Sudan’s Islamic State
Jun 07, 2021
On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021 (with video)
Jun 01, 2021
Masculinity and the Body Languages of Catholicism
May 24, 2021
Conspiracy Theories, Public Rhetoric, and Power
May 17, 2021
Manifestos and the Academic Study of Religion
May 10, 2021
Power and Diversity in 4th Century Martyr Shrines
May 03, 2021
The New Satanic Panic and the Return of Blasphemy | Discourse! April 2021
Apr 26, 2021
Comparing Methods in Christian Origins
Apr 19, 2021
Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action
Apr 12, 2021
On the Tantricization of Jain Ascetic Rituals
Apr 05, 2021
Human Rights in Australia | Discourse! March 2021
Mar 29, 2021
The U.S. Military Chaplaincy and Twentieth-Century Society
Mar 22, 2021
Sex Scandals and Minoritized Religions
Mar 15, 2021
Following the Objects: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria
Mar 08, 2021
Race and the Aliites
Mar 01, 2021
Religious Climate Activism | Discourse! February 2021
Feb 22, 2021
Beyond Ecological Essentialism: Critical and Constructive Muslim Environmentalisms
Feb 15, 2021
Myth-making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion
Feb 08, 2021
Sacred Trees: Belief, Mythology, and Practice
Feb 01, 2021
Politics and Conspirituality | Discourse! January 2021
Jan 25, 2021
The Lie at the Heart of America
Jan 18, 2021
Thanks for Listening! Celebrating 10 Years of the RSP
Jan 11, 2021
The Weakest Link! | Mid-Year Special 2020 (with video)
Dec 14, 2020
Surviving Sexual Abuse: The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Dec 07, 2020
Locked In, Locked Down, and Vaccinated? On Agency and Autonomy | Discourse! November 2020
Nov 30, 2020
Politics, Kabbalah, and Beyond: Jewish Studies and the Study of Religion
Nov 23, 2020
Global Flows, Local Contexts: Pentecostalism in Australia
Nov 16, 2020
Rhizomes, Assemblages, and Religious Change
Nov 09, 2020
Kitchens and Constructions of Religious Subjectivity in Black Atlantic Traditions
Nov 02, 2020
Presidentialism, or “Who’s Your Daddy?” | Discourse! October 2020
Oct 26, 2020
Ancient Christian Origins: A Heterogeneous History
Oct 19, 2020
Climate Change(s): New Approaches to Environmental and Agricultural Ethics
Oct 12, 2020
Roots as Scripture and Scripture as Roots
Oct 05, 2020
Religious Festivals during COVID-19 | Discourse! September 2020
Sep 28, 2020
The Fetish Revisited: Objects, Hierarchies, and BDSM
Sep 21, 2020
Navigating stasis and mobility: The journey of anointing oil
Sep 14, 2020
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Ritual
Sep 07, 2020
The Roots of QAnon | Discourse! August 2020
Aug 31, 2020
Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion
Aug 24, 2020
Decolonizing Religious Studies and Its Layers of Complicity
Aug 17, 2020
Decolonizing the Study of Religion
Jun 29, 2020
The Science of Prayer: Genealogies and Biopolitics
Jun 22, 2020
Discourse! June 2020
Jun 15, 2020
Holocaust Museums as Sacred-Secular Space
Jun 08, 2020
Exploring African Shamanism and White Sangomas in South Africa
Jun 01, 2020
What does religious literacy mean in your context?
May 25, 2020
Discourse! May 2020 with David G. Robertson, Suzanne Owen, and Craig Martin
May 18, 2020
Race, Religious Freedom & Empire in Post-War Japan
May 11, 2020
May the Fourth Be With You
May 04, 2020
Boxing and Religious Identity
Apr 27, 2020
Discourse! April 2020 with Christopher Cotter, Chris Silver and Savannah Finver
Apr 20, 2020
Near Death Experiences
Apr 13, 2020
Challenging the Normative Stance of Aniconism in the Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Apr 06, 2020
The Public Square and the Heart of Culture War
Mar 30, 2020
Discourse! March 2020 with Theo Wildcroft, Dan Gorman, & Vivian Asimos
Mar 23, 2020
Empty Signs in an Automatic Signalling System
Mar 16, 2020
Who Are the Power Worshippers?
Mar 09, 2020
Narrating Belief: Vernacular Religion in India
Mar 02, 2020
Founding American Religion, the Journal
Feb 24, 2020
The Problem with ‘Religion’ (and related categories)
Feb 17, 2020
Discourse! February 2020 with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo
Feb 10, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Religion
Feb 03, 2020
Protected: Religious Literacy is Social Justice (Classroom Edit)
Jan 27, 2020
Religious Literacy is Social Justice
Jan 27, 2020
Media and the Study of Religion
Jan 20, 2020
The Sacrality of the Secular and Philosophy of Religion
Jan 13, 2020
Discourse! #13 | January 2020
Jan 07, 2020
Separating Religion and Government…But What Is Religion?: A Look at the US Supreme Court
Jan 06, 2020
Only Sixty Seconds! | Mid-Year Special 2019
Dec 23, 2019
Discourse #12 | December 2019
Dec 18, 2019
Applied Religious Studies at Georgia State University
Dec 16, 2019
Secular Jewish Millennials in Israel/Palestine
Dec 09, 2019
Unbelief as a Nuanced Phenomenon: The Sociality of Nonreligion across Europe
Dec 02, 2019
Straight White American Jesus, the podcast
Nov 25, 2019
Discourse #11 | Oct 2019
Nov 19, 2019
Doctors and Stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries
Nov 18, 2019
Reflections on “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith”
Nov 11, 2019
Lady Death and the Pluralization of Latin American Religion
Oct 31, 2019
EASR 2019 Publishing Panel
Oct 28, 2019
The secularization of discourse in contemporary Latin American neoconservatism
Oct 21, 2019
BASR 2019: The State of the Discipline
Oct 14, 2019
When Archive Meets A.I. – Computational Humanities Research on a Danish Secular Saint
Oct 07, 2019
How Religious Freedom Makes Religion
Sep 30, 2019
Discourse #10 |Sept 2019
Sep 26, 2019
Natural Selection In the Evolution of Religion
Sep 23, 2019
When Islam Is Not a Religion
Jun 24, 2019
Discourse #8 (June 2019)
Jun 18, 2019
Discourse, Australia Edition
Jun 18, 2019
Spatial Contestations and Conversions
Jun 10, 2019
Philology and the Comparative Study of Myths
Jun 03, 2019
Science Fiction, Video Games, and Religion
May 27, 2019
Religion, Food Waste, and Food Consumption
May 20, 2019
Buddhism in the critical classroom
May 13, 2019
Critical Approaches to Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam
May 07, 2019
Demystifying the Study of Religion
Apr 29, 2019
Nonreligion, Religion, and Public Health
Apr 22, 2019
What is Mindfulness? A Critical Religious Studies Approach
Apr 15, 2019
Atheism, New Religious Movements, and Cultural Tension
Apr 08, 2019
Discussing Pious Fashion and Muslim Dress Beyond the Headscarf
Apr 01, 2019
Challenges and Responsibilities for the Public Scholar of Religion
Mar 25, 2019
LDS Garments and Agency
Mar 18, 2019
Discourse #6, March Edition: With Joel Ritala, Jarno Sandberg, Anton Stranden, and Martta Tenhu
Mar 13, 2019
Religion and Multiculturalism in Canada and Beyond
Mar 11, 2019
Christian Beauty Pageants: Beauty is in the eye of the creator
Mar 04, 2019
Melodies of Change: Music and Progressive Judaism
Feb 25, 2019
America’s Changing Religious Landscape
Feb 18, 2019
America’s Dark Theologian Stephen King: A Religious Imagination Explored
Feb 14, 2019
Slenderman and online mythology
Feb 04, 2019
The Study of Religion and National Identity in Estonia
Jan 28, 2019
Religion as a Tactic of Governance
Jan 23, 2019
Young People and Religion in a Global Perspective
Jan 14, 2019
The Therwil Affair: Handshakes in Swiss Schools
Dec 17, 2018
Negotiating Gender in Contemporary Occultism
Dec 10, 2018
A Global Study on Government Restrictions and Social Hostilities Related to Religion
Dec 03, 2018
Religion, Education, and Politics in Australia and NZ
Nov 26, 2018
New Directions in the Study of Scientology
Nov 19, 2018
The Hugging Guru: Amma and Transnationalism
Nov 12, 2018
RE Commission report: A Way Forward?
Nov 05, 2018
Preserving identity and empowering women. How do Canadian Muslim schools affect their students?
Oct 29, 2018
The ‘secular’, the ‘religious’, and the ‘refugee’ in Germany
Oct 22, 2018
A Dark Goddess: An inter-religious language for feminine spirituality
Oct 15, 2018
Representations of Religious Studies in Popular Culture
Oct 08, 2018
Ecospirituality, Gender and Nature
Oct 01, 2018
What is the point of of academic conferences?: A roundtable discussion
Sep 24, 2018
The Gods of Indian Country
Sep 17, 2018
What We Can Learn from our Founding Fathers
Jun 18, 2018
Spirituality
Jun 11, 2018
“Soka Gakkai, Kōmeitō and the religious voices of Japan’s political arena
Jun 04, 2018
Muslim Superheroes
May 28, 2018
Worldviews and Ways of Life
May 21, 2018
From Static Categories to a River of Theories: “The Myth of Disenchantment”
May 14, 2018
Situating Religion within Justice
May 07, 2018
Stereotyping Religion: Critical Approaches to Pervasive Cliches
Apr 30, 2018
Why do we believe? Evolution, Primates, and the Human Niche
Apr 23, 2018
Drone Metal Mysticism
Apr 16, 2018
Myth, Solidarity, and Post-Liberalism
Apr 09, 2018
Magic and Modernity
Apr 02, 2018
Religious change in Japanese Shinto
Mar 19, 2018
The BASR and the Impact of Religious Studies
Mar 12, 2018
‘Good’ Grief? Rituals of World Repairing
Mar 05, 2018
From Non-Religion to Unbelief? A developing field…
Feb 26, 2018
Against Invention: A richer history for ‘Hinduism’
Feb 19, 2018
God and Mathematics
Feb 12, 2018
Autism, Religion, and Imagination
Feb 05, 2018
African American Spiritual Churches
Jan 29, 2018
The Legacy of Edward Tylor – Roundtable
Jan 22, 2018
The Political Relevance of the Sociology of Religion
Jan 15, 2018
Scrape My Barrel! | Mid-Year Special 2017 (with video)
Dec 18, 2017
Drawn to the Gods – Religion, Comedy and Animated Television Programs
Dec 11, 2017
Children in New Religious Movements
Dec 04, 2017
Christian evangelical organisations in global anti-trafficking networks
Nov 27, 2017
Changing Your Story: Assessing Ex-Member Narratives
Nov 20, 2017
Muslims, NGOs, and the future of democratic space in Myanmar
Nov 13, 2017
Hyper-Real Religion, Digital Capitalism, and the Pygmalion Effect
Nov 06, 2017
Beyond ‘Faith-Based Organizations’: Religion and NGOs in comparative perspective
Oct 30, 2017
Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes
Oct 23, 2017
Muslim NGOs and civil society in Indonesia
Oct 18, 2017
‘Modelling Religion’ and the Integration of the Sciences and the Humanities in the Bio-cultural Study of Religion
Oct 09, 2017
What do we mean by Indigenous Religion(s)?
Oct 02, 2017
Hindu Traditions in Contemporary British Communities
Sep 25, 2017
Islamic Millennialism
Sep 18, 2017
Black Religious Movements and Religio-Racial Identities during the Great Migration
Jun 26, 2017
Evangelical Yoga: Cultural Appropriation and Translation in American Religions
Jun 19, 2017
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology
Jun 12, 2017
Angel Spirituality
Jun 05, 2017
Jesuits, Mormons, and American Religion in the World
May 29, 2017
Millennialism and Violence?
May 22, 2017
Witchcraft in Rural Slovenia
May 15, 2017
Minority Religions in the Secret Police Archives
May 08, 2017
Studying Tantra from Within and Without
May 01, 2017
Sexual Ethics and Islam
Apr 24, 2017
Politics of this world: Protestant, evangelical, and Pentecostal movements in Peru
Apr 17, 2017
Misplaced Faith?: A theory of supernatural belief as misattribution
Apr 10, 2017
Reinventing Graduate Education in the Study of Religion
Apr 03, 2017
Religion and the Psy-Disciplines
Mar 27, 2017
Six Scholars Discuss the Dissertation to First Book Process
Mar 20, 2017
South American church-state relations
Mar 13, 2017
Religion, Gender, and Gender Violence
Mar 06, 2017
Yoga in Museums
Feb 27, 2017
Religious Freedom in America: Theoretical Considerations
Feb 20, 2017
AI and Religion: An Initial Conversation
Feb 13, 2017
Study of Religion in Peru
Feb 06, 2017
Religion, Science and Evolutionary Theory
Jan 30, 2017
Religion, Spirituality, and Addiction Recovery
Jan 23, 2017
Comedy, Comedians, and Church: The Interplay between Religion and Humor
Jan 16, 2017
The Unverifiable Truth-Claim! | Mid-Year Special 2016 (with video)
Dec 19, 2016
New Horizons in the Sociology of Religion: Beyond Secularization?
Dec 12, 2016
Sociology of Religion – and Religious Studies?
Dec 05, 2016
Is Secularism a World Religion?
Nov 28, 2016
Researching Radicalisation
Nov 21, 2016
Death, Music, and Ritual: Contemporary Requiems in the Commemoration of Death and Violence
Nov 14, 2016
Religion, Youth, and Intergenerationality
Nov 07, 2016
Researching Religious Diversity
Oct 31, 2016
Evangelicalism and Civic Space
Oct 24, 2016
A Critical Introduction to the History, Beliefs, and Practices of Wiccans
Oct 17, 2016
Religion and Feminism
Oct 10, 2016
Communism and Catholicism: Religion and Religious Studies in Lithuania
Oct 03, 2016
An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
Sep 26, 2016
Categorising “Religion”: From Case Studies to Methodology
Sep 19, 2016
Global(ized) religion and the study of religious tensions
Jul 20, 2016
Historical, Popular, and Scholarly Constructions of Yoga
Jun 22, 2016
Embodied religious practices, child psychology and cognitive neuroscience
Jun 13, 2016
ISKCON And When New Religions Aren’t So New Anymore
Jun 09, 2016
ISKCON In Britain
Jun 06, 2016
The “Axial Age”: Problematising Religious History in a Post-Colonial Setting
May 30, 2016
BDSM as Religious Practice
May 23, 2016
Permutations of Secularism
May 16, 2016
UFOs, Conspiracy Theories… and Religion?
May 09, 2016
Popular Culture, Dr. Who, and Religion
May 02, 2016
Conversion and Deconversion as Concepts in the Sociology of Religion
Apr 25, 2016
Descriptions of Religion as Explanations of Religion
Apr 18, 2016
DEATH, Religion, and Terror Management Theory
Apr 11, 2016
Music, Marketing and Megachurches
Apr 04, 2016
From the Ku Klux Klan to Zombies
Mar 28, 2016
Nature alive: Amazonian religion in Peru
Mar 21, 2016
Identity and Capitalism
Mar 14, 2016
Popular Culture Studies and Bruce Springsteen: Escaping and Embracing Religion
Mar 07, 2016
Religious Studies as a Discipline
Feb 29, 2016
Method and Theory in the Cognitive Sciences of Religion
Feb 22, 2016
Video Games and Religious Studies
Feb 14, 2016
Religion and American Law
Feb 08, 2016
See you in the next life? Cognitive foundations of reincarnation beliefs
Feb 01, 2016
Getting to Know the North American Association for the Study of Religion
Jan 25, 2016
Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
Jan 18, 2016
Fourteen to One! | Mid-Year Special 2015
Dec 21, 2015
Minority Religions and the Law
Dec 14, 2015
Discursive Approaches and the Crises of Religious Studies
Dec 07, 2015
Gender, queer theory and religion
Nov 30, 2015
Religious Demography in the US
Nov 23, 2015
Of Demons, Saints and Heaven: Andean religious beliefs in Peru
Nov 16, 2015
Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion
Nov 09, 2015
Religion and Planetary Ethics
Nov 02, 2015
Religion and Film
Oct 26, 2015
The Invention of the Secular Academy
Oct 19, 2015
Religion, gender and corporeality
Oct 12, 2015
21st Century Irish Paganism
Oct 05, 2015
Lived Religion: Part 2
Sep 30, 2015
Lived Religion: Part 1
Sep 27, 2015
The Supernatural and the New Comparativism
Sep 21, 2015
Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
Sep 14, 2015
‘Religious’ and ‘Spiritual’ Struggles: Now in ‘Nonreligious’ and ‘Nonspiritual’ flavors!
Jun 22, 2015
Is Religion Special? A Critical Look at Religion, Wellbeing and Prosociality
Jun 15, 2015
Christian Reconstruction
Jun 08, 2015