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Podcasts and Resources on the Contemporary Social-Scientific Study of Religion
In our final Discourse! episode of the season, Andie Alexander, Craig Martin, and Paul-François Tremlett team up to discuss the concept of &...
In today’s episode, Daniel Jones talks with Travis Warren Cooper about Cooper’s recent book, The Digital Evangelicals: Contestin...
In this episode, Charles McCrary joins Matt Sheedy to discuss the role of sincerity in shaping American conceptions of religion that he expl...
For our May episode, Discourse! heads Down Under once again as ⅔ of our usual suspects—Carole Cusack & Raymond Radford—explore religion, pol...
In this week’s episode Sam Gill joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss his recent book The Proper Study of Religion: Building on...
In this episode, religious studies scholars Matt Sheedy and Tyler Tully, along with host Candace Mixon, discuss the ramifications of the in-...
In this week’s episode, Raymond Radford is joined by Bradley Onishi to discuss his new book Preparing for War: The Extremist History o...
This month’s Discourse is hosted by Suzanne Newcombe, who’s joined by Michael Munnick and Carmen Becker. They start by discussing the recent...
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...
In this episode, Dr. Finbarr Curtis joins Jacob Noblett to discuss the growing phenomena of profanation as it concerns American politics and...
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...
In this episode, RSP editor Andie Alexander talks with Teemu Taira about his recent monograph Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essay...
Theodical arguments are perhaps some of the most difficult to bring to a firm conclusion, particularly when placed in certain historical con...
In this episode, Ting Guo chats with Rebekka King and Tenzan Eaghall about their edited volume, Representing Religion in Film , published by...
What unites the death of an emeritus pope, a Brazilian insurrection and the debate about the relationship between science and religion? Over...
In this episode host Candace Mixon and guest Schirin Amir-Moazami use Amir-Moazami’s new book, Interrogating Muslims: The Liberal-Secular Ma...
Sidney Castillo is your host for the bumper final Discourse! episode of 2022! Join Sidney, Sharday Mosurinjohn, and Jordan Loewen-Colón to d...
This month’s Discourse! welcomes back Founding Editor Chris Cotter to the host’s chair, along with guests Ting Guo and Carmen Ce...
This month’s Discourse! centres on questions of the secular and the religious in the contemporary public square. What does it mean to...
For our 400th episode of The Religious Studies Project , Carmen Becker joins Andie Alexander to introduce the new international MA program R...
The Research Excellence Framework (or REF) is a major aspect of the institutional environment of academia in the UK—a time-consuming process...
Our first Discourse! episode for the season features host Emily D. Crews, who is joined by long-time friends of the RSP, Richard Newton and...
For our first episode of Season 12, Falguni A. Sheth joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss her new book Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonia...
Our June episode of Discourse!, featuring episode host Benjamin P. Marcus, Jade Hui, and Lauren Horn Griffin, covers religion and the news i...
Whose beliefs get to count and in what contexts? Join Carmen Becker, Susannah Crockford, and Savannah Finver in this month’s episode of Disc...
This week, we dive back into the RSP archives to explore conversations about cults and new religious movements. This video aims to disrupt t...
What is curanderismo and where is it practiced? How does it connect to the borderlands? Is it a “folk” religion, and what exactl...
In this month’s Discourse!, Sidney Castillo is joined by Chris Cotter and Sierra Lawson to discuss the contemporary localized manifestations...
In this episode, Dan Gorman and Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm follow up on their 2018 conversation for the RSP. The topic is Storm’s bo...
J. Brent Crosson joins the RSP to discuss his most recent award-winning book, Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in...
The construction of the introductory textbook in the academic study of religion is an incredibly fraught enterprise. What will you include?...
This month’s episode of Discourse! covers issues of misinformation as it pertains to the upcoming Philippine presidential elections in...
In this episode, Dr. Méadhbh McIvor joins Savannah Finver to discuss her recent book Representing God: Christian Legal Activism in Contempor...
Throughout the entirety of WWII and the Cold War, U.S. intelligence agencies invested an immense amount of resources into the “religio...
This month’s episode of Discourse! is hosted by Candace Mixon who’s joined by Craig Martin and Suzanne Owen. Their articles all...
In this edition of RSP Remix, we go deep into our archives to explore the insider/outsider problem in the study of religion. We explore ques...
Over the past few years, a number of religious studies scholars have collaborated on events on the theme of ‘spiritual abuse’. W...
What sort of discursive traps to we fall into when talking about ‘Islam’ or ‘the West’? How might we reframe our dis...
How does the media report religion when religion doesn’t “behave”? What happens when religion becomes part of discourse th...
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the “psychedelic renaissance” for the development of medical psychotherapy and spir...
For our final interview of the semester, tune in to our co-founder David G. Robertson discussing his new book Gnosticism and the History of...
In this episode, Dr. Breann Fallon sits down with Professor Daniel Boyarin to discuss his monograph Judaism: Genealogy of the Jewish Notion...
In this month’s episode of discourse we have an update from Australia. Professor Carole Cusack (University of Sydney) and Ray Radford...
What is the world religions paradigm? In this RSP Remix, David McConeghy presents an abridged version of David Robertson’s 2013 interv...
What do we mean when we talk about secularism, religion, or culture? In this episode, Matt Sheedy joins RSP co-editor Andie Alexander to dis...
Christianity is one of the most ubiquitous religions in the world. In reality, it would be more plausible to rather speak about Christianiti...
In this episode, Dr. Craig Martin joins Savannah Finver to discuss his forthcoming book, Discourse and Ideology: A Critique of the Study of...
On this month’s Discourse!, join Emily D. Crews, Alison Robertson, and host Theo Wildcroft for a collection of topical stories on how...
With over 350 episodes in our archives, we’ve seen many scholars discuss the issue of fieldwork and how their research goals have been...
In this episode, Dan Gorman speaks with Christopher Cantwell and Kristian Petersen about their anthology Digital Humanities and Research Met...