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Harm, AI, and Religion | Discourse! June 2023

In our final Discourse! episode of the season, Andie Alexander, Craig Martin, and Paul-François Tremlett team up to discuss the concept of &...

50:12Jul 4, 2023

Mediatizing “Evangelicalism”: Authenticity, Identity, and Power

In today’s episode, Daniel Jones talks with Travis Warren Cooper about Cooper’s recent book, The Digital Evangelicals: Contestin...

40:13Jun 12, 2023

What’s Sincerity Got to Do With American Secularism?

In this episode, Charles McCrary joins Matt Sheedy to discuss the role of sincerity in shaping American conceptions of religion that he expl...

42:30Jun 5, 2023

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

For our May episode, Discourse! heads Down Under once again as ⅔ of our usual suspects—Carole Cusack & Raymond Radford—explore religion, pol...

44:55May 29, 2023

Charting the Playful & Proper Study of Religion

In this week’s episode Sam Gill joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss his recent book The Proper Study of Religion: Building on...

52:42May 15, 2023

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

In this episode, religious studies scholars Matt Sheedy and Tyler Tully, along with host Candace Mixon, discuss the ramifications of the in-...

48:20May 1, 2023

Keep Hope Alive: Preparing for White Christian Nationalism

In this week’s episode, Raymond Radford is joined by Bradley Onishi to discuss his new book Preparing for War: The Extremist History o...

36:24Apr 17, 2023

Religion under Attack? | Discourse! March 2023

This month’s Discourse is hosted by Suzanne Newcombe, who’s joined by Michael Munnick and Carmen Becker. They start by discussing the recent...

53:00Mar 27, 2023

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: Religion without God

In this interview, Dan Gorman talks with Leigh Eric Schmidt about his 2021 book The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of Ame...

46:49Mar 13, 2023

Spitting on the Sacred: Politics and Redefining Profanation

In this episode, Dr. Finbarr Curtis joins Jacob Noblett to discuss the growing phenomena of profanation as it concerns American politics and...

50:29Mar 6, 2023

Religious Literacy and Its Discontents | Discourse! February 2023

Benjamin P. Marcus is your host for this month’s episode of Discourse! , the RSP’s monthly, critical take on the category of religion in the...

41:52Feb 27, 2023

Navigating the Discursive Study of Religion

In this episode, RSP editor Andie Alexander talks with Teemu Taira about his recent monograph Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essay...

40:29Feb 20, 2023

Where was God?: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

Theodical arguments are perhaps some of the most difficult to bring to a firm conclusion, particularly when placed in certain historical con...

43:52Feb 13, 2023

Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film

In this episode, Ting Guo chats with Rebekka King and Tenzan Eaghall about their edited volume, Representing Religion in Film , published by...

29:08Feb 6, 2023

Oversimplified Binaries | Discourse! January 2023

What unites the death of an emeritus pope, a Brazilian insurrection and the debate about the relationship between science and religion? Over...

31:23Jan 30, 2023

Interrogating the Interrogators: Managing Muslims in Germany

In this episode host Candace Mixon and guest Schirin Amir-Moazami use Amir-Moazami’s new book, Interrogating Muslims: The Liberal-Secular Ma...

39:31Jan 23, 2023

Realities (Altered & Virtual) | Discourse! November 2022

Sidney Castillo is your host for the bumper final Discourse! episode of 2022! Join Sidney, Sharday Mosurinjohn, and Jordan Loewen-Colón to d...

1:01:18Dec 19, 2022

Queens of the World | Discourse! October 2022

This month’s Discourse! welcomes back Founding Editor Chris Cotter to the host’s chair, along with guests Ting Guo and Carmen Ce...

36:43Oct 31, 2022

Secular Spaces? | Discourse! September 2022

This month’s Discourse! centres on questions of the secular and the religious in the contemporary public square. What does it mean to...

39:54Oct 13, 2022

Shifting the Focus of Graduate Education in the Study of Religion

For our 400th episode of The Religious Studies Project , Carmen Becker joins Andie Alexander to introduce the new international MA program R...

31:41Sep 16, 2022