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The Critical Study of Religion

What is the critical study of religion? In these personal picks from RSP Co-Founder Christopher Cotter, listeners move from major issues related to the definition and category of “religion” to a powerful roundtable on identity featuring the members of Culture on the Edge before concluding with discussions of key terms such as secularism and decolonization.

Episodes in this playlist

  1. The Critical Study of Religion

    Professor Bruce Lincoln from the University of Chicago discusses a variety of topics including werewolves, critical theory, pedagogy, and self-imposed estrangement from the academic study of religion. In this interview, Professor Bruce Lincoln from the University of Chicago Divinity School discusses a variety of topics including werewolves, critical theory,
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    Brad Stoddard

    Bruce Lincoln

  2. ‘Religion’ as ‘sui generis’

    In this interview with Thomas Coleman, McCutcheon discusses what he terms as the “socio-political strategy” behind the label of “sui generis” as it is applied to religion. The interview begins by exploring some of the terms used to support sui generis claims to religion (e.g. un-mediated, irreducible etc.)...
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    Thomas J. Coleman III

    Russell McCutcheon

  3. Religion as a Tactic of Governance

    Naomi Goldenberg argues that 'religion', as a separate sphere from governance, has been projected onto the past for strategic purposes. How does viewing religions as "restive once-and-future governments" help us understand the functioning of this category in contemporary discourse?
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    Naomi Goldenberg

    David G. Robertson

  4. The Problem with ‘Religion’ (and related categories)

    Tim Fitzgerald - a founding figure in the critical study of religion - discusses his career up to his seminal volume, The Ideology of Religious Studies, published twenty years ago this year.
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    Timothy Fitzgerald

    David G. Robertson

  5. Identity or Identification?

    Identity or Identification? In this second podcast for Identities? Week, the Culture on the Edge group address the issue of religious identity. Is our identity – cultural, religious or other – something which causes us to act, or something which we choose to mobilise in certain circumstances? And what part do scholars have in reifying these discourses?
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    Featuring

    Vaia Touna

    Leslie Dorrough Smith

    Steven Ramey

    Craig Martin

    Monica R. Miller

    K. Merinda Simmons

    Russell McCutcheon

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