Evangelical Yoga: Cultural Appropriation and Translation in American Religions [transcript]
Evangelical Yoga: Cultural Appropriation and Translation in American Religions Podcast with Candy Gunther-Brown (19 June 2017). Interviewed by Daniel Gorman Jr Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Gunther-Brown – Evangelical Yoga 1.1 Daniel Gorman (DG) : Dr Candy Gunther-Brown, welcome to the Religious Studies Project! Candy Brown (CB): Thank you. DG: So, I’m […]
Islamic Millennialism [transcript]
Islamic Millennialism Podcast with Rob Gleave (18 September 2017). Interviewed by David Robertson. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Transcript available at: Gleave – Islamic Millennialism 1.1 David Robertson (DR): I’m here in Bedford at the CenSAMM Conference on Millennialism and Violence and I’m joined by Rob Gleave, who is the Director for the Study of Islam […]
Changing Your Story: Assessing Ex-member narratives [transcript]
Changing Your Story: Assessing Ex-member narratives Podcast with George Chryssides (20 November 2017). Interviewed by Breann Fallon Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Transcript available at: Chryssides- Changing Your Story 1.1 Breann Fallon (BF): Ex-member testimony can be difficult to deal with. Such testimony tends to receive privileged treatment in anti-cult literature, while some academics are prone […]
Drawn to the Gods: Religion, Comedy and Animated Television Programmes [transcript]
Drawn to the Gods: Religion, Comedy and Animated Television Programmes Podcast with David Feltmate (11 December 2017). Interviewed by Breann Fallon. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Transcript available at: Feltmate_-_Drawn_to_the_Gods_1.1 Breann Fallon (BF): If you were asked to name the TV programmes that were most religious, had the most religious content and references, which ones would […]
Ecospirituality, Gender and Nature [transcript]
Ecospirituality, Gender and Nature Podcast with Susannah Crockford (1 October 2018). Interviewed by Christopher Cotter. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Crockford_-_Ecospirituality,_Gender_and_Nature_1.1 Christopher Cotter (C.C.): In some contexts, asking the question “what gender is nature?” might provoke a condescending response – “of course nature doesn’t have a gender”. Yet, despite this naturalistic […]
Religion as a Tactic of Governance [transcript]
Religion as a Tactic of Governance Podcast with Naomi Goldenberg (21 January 2019). Interviewed by David G. Robertson Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Goldenberg_-_Religion_as_a_Tactic_of_Governance_1.1 DR: We’re still here in Belfast at the BASR conference, in 2018. And I am privileged to be joined today by our keynote speaker from last night, […]
The Study of Religion and National Identity in Estonia [transcript]
The Study of Religion and National Identity in Estonia Podcast with Atko Remmel (28 January 2019). Interviewed by Christopher Cotter. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: Remmel_-_The_Study_of_Religion_and_National_Identity_in_Estonia_1.1 Christopher Cotter (CC): The Estonian case in the study of religion is something that we’ve not really talked about very much on the Religious Studies Project. […]
EASR Publishing Roundtable 2019 [transcript]
EASR Publishing Roundtable 2019 Podcast with Michael Stausberg, Gregory D. Alles, Joshua Wells, Valerie Hall, Jenny Butler, James White and Suzanne Owen (28 October 2019). Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/easr-publishing-roundtable-2019/ PDF version of the transcript available here. Suzanne Owen (SO): Welcome, this evening, to the panel on how to get […]
Artificial Intelligence and Religion [transcript]
Artificial Intelligence and Religion Podcast with Beth Singler (27 January 2020). Interviewed by Christopher Cotter Transcribed by Helen Bradstock. Audio and transcript available at: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Singler_-_Artificial_Intelligence_and_Religion_1.1.pdf PDF at Christopher Cotter (CC): At the weekend, I mentioned to my father that I was going to be recording an interview about the intersections between AI and religion. And […]
Discourse! February 2020 with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo
Breann Fallon sits down with Sierra Lawson and Sidney Castillo to discuss the recent Peruvian Congress elections and the controversial new book “American Dirt.”
Tara Smith
Tara Smith is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, she focuses primarily on popular culture, and new religious movements. Her dissertation is on science fiction authors and their connection to nature, the environment, and futurist religious thought.
Ideal Types, Semantic Anarchy, and the Study of Atheism (etc.)
By Christopher R. Cotter, in response to an interview with Chris Silver on “Atheism, New Religious Movements, and Cultural Tension”. Listening to Chris Silver’s recent podcast on Atheism, New Religious Movements, and Cultural Tension was a thoroughly pleasant experience. I enjoyed hearing a colleague who I first met in 2011, and who quickly came on board the […]
Douglas Cowan
Douglas Cowan is a professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo, and specializes in religion and film, television, and popular culture. His more recent works include Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen (Baylor), Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction […]
Bernard Doherty
Bernard Doherty is a graduate of Macquarie University. Following his PhD, Bernard was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in the United States where he worked on a series of projects on New Religious Movements in Australia and abroad and on applying social science methodologies to the study […]
“Communicating Religion”. Annual Conference of the EASR
Visiting your Alma Mater is always accompanied by mixed emotions. On the one hand you see familiar things you missed but on the other hand you’re confronted with downsides you hoped were a thing of the past. My visit to the KULeuven for the EASR conference had both, although the positives far outweighed the downsides.