In this week’s episode Sam Gill joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss his recent book The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith. They consider different methodological and theoretical questions in the academic study of religion, such as comparison, difference-making, play & movement, experience, and “storytracking”—a narrative technique and method for critical self-reflection and scholarly analysis. Gill outlines a playful and proper study of religion that builds on the work of the late J. Z. Smith and demonstrates how a critical scholar of religion might apply Smith’s methods in their own scholarship.
The “Axial Age”: Problematising Religious History in a Post-Colonial Setting
BDSM as Religious Practice
Permutations of Secularism
UFOs, Conspiracy Theories… and Religion?
Popular Culture, Dr. Who, and Religion
Conversion and Deconversion as Concepts in the Sociology of Religion
Descriptions of Religion as Explanations of Religion
DEATH, Religion, and Terror Management Theory
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Nature alive: Amazonian religion in Peru
Identity and Capitalism
Popular Culture Studies and Bruce Springsteen: Escaping and Embracing Religion
Religious Studies as a Discipline
Method and Theory in the Cognitive Sciences of Religion
Video Games and Religious Studies
Religion and American Law
See you in the next life? Cognitive foundations of reincarnation beliefs
Getting to Know the North American Association for the Study of Religion
Teaching and Learning in Contemporary Religious Studies
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