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Developing a Critical Study of Non-Religion

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24 August 2020

Can discourse analysis help scholars avoid the pitfalls of studying non-religion? In his new book, RSP Co-Founder Christopher R. Cotter argues it can. Speaking with co-host Breann Fallon, this interview highlights the challenges of studying non-religion while celebrating the promise of new methodologies.

Featuring

Christopher R. Cotter

 

Breann Fallon

 

Decolonizing Religious Studies and Its Layers of Complicity

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17 August 2020

What layers of complicity in colonialism are still embedded in the field of religious studies? How can we learn from decades of decolonial work in Native American and Indigenous Studies? Dr. Natalie Avalos speaks with RSP co-host David McConeghy about the urgency of decolonial scholarship to start the RSP's 10th season.

Featuring

David McConeghy

 

Natalie Avalos

 

Decolonizing the Study of Religion

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29 June 2020

How can the field address its whiteness and the legacy of its colonial origins? In this final episode of our 2019/2020 season Christopher Cotter speaks with Malory Nye about decolonizing Religious Studies.

Featuring

Christopher R. Cotter

 

Malory Nye

 

The Science of Prayer: Genealogies and Biopolitics

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22 June 2020

In this week's episode, John Lardas Modern discusses the genealogy and biopolitics of the scientific study of prayer from E.B. Tylor to DEVO.

Featuring

David McConeghy

 

John L. Modern

 

Discourse! June 2020

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15 June 2020

Amid mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism ongoing in the United States, RSP contributor Ben Marcus speaks with Andre Willis and Carleigh Beriont about race and religion in this month's Discourse episode.

Featuring

Benjamin P. Marcus

 

Andre C. Willis

 

Carleigh Ann Beriont