Christmas Special 2015 – Fourteen to One!
Fourteen contestants. One tetchy quizmaster. Three microphones. Numerous cases of wine. One glamorous assistant. Many bruised egos. A boisterous studio audience. A splash of irreverence. Dozens of...
View ArticleOuttakes and Review of the Year
A very special episode of the podcast this week, to mark the beginning of our annual summer hiatus. This week is brought to you by Gordon’s Gin & Tonic (other gins are available) For the past year,...
View ArticleSociotheology and Cosmic War
Over the course of the last few decades religious violence has become an increasingly salient topic of public discourse and particularly in its global manifestations. In the social sciences these...
View ArticleBiblical Studies and Religious Studies
What is the relationship between Religious Studies and the study of the Christian New Testament? Although RS is often considered to be “studies of thee other religions”, Biblical Studies also offers a...
View ArticleAstrology
If statistics are to be believed, close to 100% of people in the UK know their astrological sun-sign. But what is astrology, exactly? Is it merely a “survival” from the medieval worldview, and what is...
View ArticleReligious Studies Opportunities Digest – 30 Nov 2012
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View ArticleWhat is the Public Benefit of the Study of Religion?
This year’s BASR annual conference at the University of Winchester included a panel on the ‘Public benefit in the study of religion’. The panel was organised by BASR Hon. Secretary, Bettina Schmidt,...
View ArticleReligious Studies Opportunities Digest – 23 Nov 2012
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View ArticleReligious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 Nov 2012
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View ArticleRudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto was a highly influential figure in the history of Religious Studies, but whether that influence was for good or not is a debatable issue. His ideas about the sui generis nature of the...
View ArticleThe Sacred
Religion and the Sacred, the Sacred and religion. Two words that seemingly go together like hand in glove but just how accurate is that? When we talk about religion it’s very hard not to talk about the...
View ArticleReligious Studies Opportunities Digest – 2 November 2012
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View ArticleWouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism
In this interview, recorded at the EASR Annual Conference at Södertörn University, Professor Wouter Hanegraaff tells us about what he dubs “the biggest blank spaces of neglected territories in the...
View ArticleNon-religion
The two concepts of non-religion and secularity are intended to summarise all positions which are necessarily defined in reference to religion but which are considered to be other than religious....
View ArticleEditors’ Picks 2: The Phenomenology of Religion
The second of our Editors’ Picks “repodcasts”, and this time Jonathan has chosen our interview with James Cox on the Phenomenology of Religion. It was, incidentally, also our very first podcast,...
View Article‘Religion’ and Mystification
‘Religion’ has proved a problematic category, difficult to define and difficult to translate into non-European languages. In this interview, Timothy Fitzgerald presents his critical deconstruction of...
View ArticleTariq Modood on the Crisis of European Secularism
Secularism – the separation of religion and state – has been a central narrative in the European political sphere since the Enlightenment. But with renewed calls in some countries to affirm a...
View ArticleLisbeth Mikaelsson on Religion and Gender
Gender has always played a significant role in the everyday lives of people. This is no more true than in the case of religion and there is a burgeoning field in religious studies dedicated to the...
View ArticleJolyon Mitchell on Religion, Violence and the Media
Discussions of religion in the media nowadays frequently revolve around issues of violence and social unrest. Religions and media can become collaborators in promoting peace and opening negotiations;...
View ArticleReligion After Darwin
Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species was published in 1859, and had an immediate and dramatic effect on religious narratives. Traditional religions were forced to adopt an evolutionary worldview,...
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