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.
Melodies of Change: Music and Progressive Judaism
America’s Changing Religious Landscape
America’s Dark Theologian Stephen King: A Religious Imagination Explored
Slenderman and online mythology
The Study of Religion and National Identity in Estonia
Religion as a Tactic of Governance
Young People and Religion in a Global Perspective
The Therwil Affair: Handshakes in Swiss Schools
Negotiating Gender in Contemporary Occultism
A Global Study on Government Restrictions and Social Hostilities Related to Religion
Religion, Education, and Politics in Australia and NZ
New Directions in the Study of Scientology
The Hugging Guru: Amma and Transnationalism
RE Commission report: A Way Forward?
Preserving identity and empowering women. How do Canadian Muslim schools affect their students?
The ‘secular’, the ‘religious’, and the ‘refugee’ in Germany
A Dark Goddess: An inter-religious language for feminine spirituality
Representations of Religious Studies in Popular Culture
Ecospirituality, Gender and Nature
What is the point of of academic conferences?: A roundtable discussion
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