For our May episode, Discourse! heads Down Under once again as ⅔ of our usual suspects—Carole Cusack & Raymond Radford—explore religion, politics, life and death in the Australian religious sphere. They cover a variety of recent issues from the banning of hate symbols and the rise of right groups in the wake of the pandemic, to Australian sovereign citizens and gun deaths, to the deaths of high profile priests and the different (and indifferent) reactions from both politics and media. Be sure to tune in!
Articles DiscussedThe “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
Music, Marketing and Megachurches
From the Ku Klux Klan to Zombies
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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