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The Religious Studies Project

The Religious Studies Project (RSP) features weekly conversations with leading scholars of Religious Studies and related fields. Our aim is to provide engaging, concise, and reliable accounts of the most important concepts, traditions, scholars, and methodologies in the contemporary study of religion. Episodes are produced by The Religious Studies Project Association (SCIO), a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (charity number SC047750).

RSP material is disseminated under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License and can be distributed and utilised freely, provided full citation is given.

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Harm, AI, and Religion | Discourse! June 2023

Jul 3, 2023·—

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In our final #RSPdiscourse of the season, editor Andie Alexander, Craig Martin, and Paul-François Tremlett consider the concept of "harm" & religion in recent legislation, Scotland elections, and AI & Religion.

Mediatizing “Evangelicalism”: Authenticity, Identity, and Power

Jun 12, 2023·—

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In today's episode, Daniel Jones talks with Travis Warren Cooper about Cooper's recent book, _The Digital Evangelicals_, and they discuss how issues of authenticity, authority, and power are deeply intertwined with US...

What’s Sincerity Got to Do With American Secularism?

Jun 5, 2023·—

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Join Matt Sheedy and Charles McCrary as they discuss a cultural history of "sincerely held religious beliefs." McCrary explores how SCOTUS has determined who and what gets to count as 'religious' and traces the...

What’s Happening Down Under? | Discourse! May 2023

May 29, 2023·—

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RSP discourse heads Down Under once again as 2/3 of the usual suspects—Carole Cusack & Raymond Radford—discuss religion, politics, life and death in the Australian religious sphere. Be sure to tune in!

Charting the Playful & Proper Study of Religion

May 15, 2023·—

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Andie Alexander is joined by Sam Gill to talk about his recent book _The Proper Study of Religion_, and they discuss questions of comparison, difference, storytracking, and playfulness in the academic study of religion...

Supreme Court to Coulter: Negotiating Religion in the Public Sphere | Discourse! April 2023

May 1, 2023·—

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Join Matt Sheedy, Tyler Tully, and host Candace Mixon as they discuss the ramifications of the in-progress Supreme Court case Groff vs. Dejoy, the Catholic Church’s decision to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery, and a...

Keep Hope Alive: Preparing for White Christian Nationalism

Apr 17, 2023·—

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Tune in this week with Raymond Radford and Bradley Onishi as they discuss white Christian nationalism, evangelicalism, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and much more!

Religion under Attack? | Discourse! March 2023

Mar 27, 2023·—

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Join host Suzanne Newcombe, Carmen Becker, and Michael Munnik for this month's episode of Discourse! They discuss discrimination in a few European cases, including the SNP, protests at an abortion clinic, and more!

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: Religion without God

Mar 13, 2023·—

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Tune in for today's #RSPmonday featuring Leigh Eric Schmidt and Dan Gorman discussing religion without God and the use of Thomas Paine as a symbol of atheism.

Spitting on the Sacred: Politics and Redefining Profanation

Mar 6, 2023·—

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In this episode, Jacob Noblett talks to Dr. Finbarr Curtis about his recent book, Going Low: How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy, to help breakdown the rejuvenation of populist political narratives and...

Religious Literacy and Its Discontents | Discourse! February 2023

Feb 27, 2023·—

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Join Benjamin P. Marcus, Paulina Gruffman, and Charles McCrary for this month's #RSPdiscourse as they discuss a recent Pew survey on religious literacy and the so-called Asbury revival. Be sure to tune in!

Navigating the Discursive Study of Religion

Feb 20, 2023·—

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In today's episode, Teemu Taira and Andie Alexander discuss how social groups negotiate the category 'religion' and the relevance of the discursive methods in the study of religion.

Where was God?: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

Feb 13, 2023·—

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Where was God during the Holocaust? There is no straightforward answer to this and there are different viewpoints across the different streams of Judaism. Join Dr. Breann Fallon as she speaks with Dr. Barbara Krawcowicz...

Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film

Feb 6, 2023·—

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Ting Guo chats with Rebekka King and Tenzan Eaghall about their new edited volume, Representing Religion in Film (Bloomsbury 2022), and they explore the “ideological blindspot” of existing studies on religion and film...

Oversimplified Binaries | Discourse! January 2023

Jan 30, 2023·—

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This month's Discourse! features our co-founder Chris Cotter, Lauren Horn Griffin, and Kristi Boone complicating and unpacking oversimplified binaries—be sure to tune in!

Interrogating the Interrogators: Managing Muslims in Germany

Jan 23, 2023·—

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In this episode host Candace Mixon and guest Schirin Amir-Moazami discuss Amir-Moazami’s book, _Interrogating Muslims: The Liberal-Secular Matrix of Integration_ as a starting point in discussing topics such state...

Realities (Altered & Virtual) | Discourse! November 2022

Dec 19, 2022·—

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Join host Sidney Castillo and guests Jordan Loewen-Colón and Sharday Mosurinjohn for the bumper final Discourse! episode of 2022!

Queens of the World | Discourse! October 2022

Oct 31, 2022·—

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This month's Discourse! welcomes back Founding Editor Chris Cotter to the host's chair, along with guests Ting Guo and Carmen Celestini. They first discuss Queen Elizabeth II and “mourning” in Hong Kong, and then more...

Secular Spaces? | Discourse! September 2022

Oct 13, 2022·—

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This month's Discourse! centres on questions of the secular and the religious in the contemporary public square. What does it mean to be a secular space? How do institutions "deal with" religious ideas and identities in...

Shifting the Focus of Graduate Education in the Study of Religion

Sep 16, 2022·—

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Join Carmen Becker and Andie Alexander for the RSP's 400th episode where they discuss the new international MA program at Leibniz University, Hannover.

Reflections on REF 2021

Sep 5, 2022·—

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In this week's episode, we reflect on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 report. Gordon Lynch, the chair of the TRS panel, joins David Robertson to outline the process and tell us what it says about the...

Presentism and Politics | Discourse! August 2022 (with video)

Aug 30, 2022·—

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Our first #RSPdiscourse episode for the season features host Emily D. Crews, who is joined by long-time friends of the RSP, Richard Newton and Theo Wildcroft. This excellent and wide-ranging episode addresses present...

Unruly Women: Neocolonialism, Race, and Discrimination

Aug 29, 2022·—

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For our first episode of Season 12, Falguni A. Sheth joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss issues of liberalism, racial discrimination, religious freedom, and governance with regard to Muslim women of color and...

Authorities and the Past | Discourse! June 2022 (with video)

Jun 27, 2022·—

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Join Ben Marcus, Lauren Horn Griffin, and Jade Hui as they discuss issues of religious freedom, tradition, and authority in topics ranging from Justice Alito's leaked draft decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health...

Abortion, Climate Change Protests, & Ukraine Invasion | Discourse! May 2022 (with video)

May 30, 2022·—

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Tune in for our new Discourse! episode with Carmen Becker, Susannah Crockford, and Savannah Finver as they discuss legal issues of rights, abortion, protests, and more!