Following the Objects: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria
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8 March 2021
Why do scholars of religion have such a variety of incomplete and messy tools to “follow the objects”? Find out with the curious stories of devotional objects from Cairo and Damascus as Candace Mixon speaks with Richard McGregor about Islam and the Devotional object.
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Candace Mixon
Richard McGregor
Race and the Aliites
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1 March 2021
Complex issues of race, identity, citizenship, sovereignty, and Law come together in this interview with Spencer Dew about the New Religious Movements surrounding Noble Drew Ali and the groups he inspired.
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David McConeghy
Spencer Dew
Religious Climate Activism | Discourse! February 2021
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22 February 2021
Environmental issues take center stage in this month's episode of Discourse!, hosted by Michael Munnik with guests Suzanne Owen and Daniel Gorman Jr.
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Suzanne Owen
Daniel Gorman, Jr.
Michael Munnik
Beyond Ecological Essentialism: Critical and Constructive Muslim Environmentalisms
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15 February 2021
The diversity of Muslim environmentalisms shows the urgency of decolonizing Religious Studies and Environmental Humanities amid escalating global climate crises, says Prof. Anna Gade in this week's episode. Based on her decades of fieldwork in Indonesia, Dr. Gade sketches new intersections of religion and the environment that decenter conversations long dominated by Western ecological models.
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David McConeghy
Lauren E. Osborne
Anna Gade
Myth-making, Environmentalism, and Non-Religion
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8 February 2021
What myths do non-religious people use in their climate and environmental activism? What does the study of everyday stories bring to the study of 'religion' and 'non-religion'? Find out in this interview with Dr. Tim Stacey by RSP Co-Founder Christopher R. Cotter.
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Christopher R. Cotter
Timothy Stacey
