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The Phenomenology of Religion
Phenomenology is an important methodology in the study of religions, but can be inaccessible to the student. In this interview, James Cox outlines the phenomenology of religion to David in a clear,...
View ArticleThe Religious Studies Project launches…
The Religious Studies Project, in association with the British Association for the Study of Religions, launches on 16 January 2012! Every Monday, we’ll be putting out a new podcast featuring an...
View ArticleCognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion
The cognitive study of religion has quickly established itself as the paradigmatic methodology in the field today. It’s grounded in the concept that religiosity is natural because it is well adapted to...
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Invented Religions
What is an “Invented Religion”? Why should scholars take these religions seriously? What makes these “inventions” different from the revelations in other religions? What happens when an author does not...
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Animism
Animism is often taken as referring to worldviews in which spirits are to be found not only in humans, but potentially in animals, in plants, in mountains and even natural forces like the wind. It was...
View ArticleVideo: The Religious Studies Project – What We’re All About…
Today marks a special occasion in the life of The Religious Studies Project – we’re giving our first ‘talk’. As part of Innovative Learning Week at the School of Divinity at the University of...
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The Changing Nature of Religion
In her keynote address to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in Milwaukee last October, Grace Davie eruditely portrayed the changing perceptions of ‘religion’ over the last fifty years....
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Doing Anthropological Fieldwork
“If we want to discover what [wo]man amounts to, we can only find it in what [wo]men are: and what [wo]men are, above all other things, is various. It is in understanding that variousness – its range,...
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Religion 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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Jolyon 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;...
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Lisbeth 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...
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Tariq 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...
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‘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 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,...
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Non-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....
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Wouter 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...
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 2 November 2012
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The 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...
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Rudolf 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...
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 16 Nov 2012
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 23 Nov 2012
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What 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,...
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 30 Nov 2012
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Astrology
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...
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Biblical 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...
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Sociotheology 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...
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Outtakes 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,...
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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...
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