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 &...
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20 of 300 episodesMediatizing “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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...