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> academic study of religion through podcasts.

The **Religious Studies Project** is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organization (SCIO) devoted to producing engaging and accessible resources for the contemporary study of religion.

Since 2012, our weekly podcast and written response essays have featured hundreds of scholars sharing their research and expertise in religious studies.

Use our resources including new playlists to help you pursue some of the major questions in religious studies.

Explore our archive of 400 podcasts. Listen or read transcripts. Go deeper with scholarly responses.

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# Our Latest Podcast

### Harm, AI, and Religion | Discourse! June 2023

In our final #RSPdiscourse of the season, editor Andie Alexander, Craig Martin, and Paul-François Tremlett consider the concept of "harm" & religion in recent legislation, Scotland elections, and AI & Religion.

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## Mediatizing “Evangelicalism”: Authenticity, Identity, and Power

In today’s episode, Daniel Jones talks with Travis Warren Cooper about Cooper’s recent book, \_The Digital Evangelicals\_, and they discuss how issues of authenticity, authority, and power are deeply intertwined with US “evangelicalism” and its mediatization. Be sure to tune in!

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## What’s Sincerity Got to Do With American Secularism?

Join Matt Sheedy and Charles McCrary as they discuss a cultural history of “sincerely held religious beliefs.” McCrary explores how SCOTUS has determined who and what gets to count as ‘religious’ and traces the historical development of American secularism. Be sure to tune in!

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## What’s Happening Down Under? | Discourse! May 2023

RSP discourse heads Down Under once again as 2/3 of the usual suspects—Carole Cusack & Raymond Radford—discuss religion, politics, life and death in the Australian religious sphere. Be sure to tune in!

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## Charting the Playful & Proper Study of Religion

Andie Alexander is joined by Sam Gill to talk about his recent book \_The Proper Study of Religion\_, and they discuss questions of comparison, difference, storytracking, and playfulness in the academic study of religion. Be sure to tune in!

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# Our Latest Response

### To My Comrade in Deconstructive Critique

Mitsutoshi Horii, in his response to our season 11 episode with Jason Ā. Josephson Storm, furthers Storm's discussion of the importance of problematizing our systems of classification and highlights the critical scholarship in religious studies doing some of this work.

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# Earlier Responses

### Nothing Is Perfect, but Is Anything New?

September 2, 2022

K. Merinda Simmons nuances and furthers Jason Josephson Storm’s episode from Season 11 by reflecting critically on the ways in which postmodernism is explicitly—or even implicitly—dismissed in religious studies scholarship.

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### Textbook in Today’s University

April 15, 2022

Responding to our interview with Paul Hedges, Steven Ramey builds on the discussion by arguing for the necessity of unpacking the authority associated with textbooks and shifting pedagogical approaches from presenting information to training students to think critically about the information presented.

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### The Study of Gnosticism Reloaded: From Theological Ostracism to Cultural Appropriation

February 25, 2022

In this response to our interview with David G. Robertson, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski builds on and furthers the discussion by exploring alternative approaches to studying gnosticism in conversation with Robertson’s analysis.

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