This month’s Discourse is hosted by Suzanne Newcombe, who’s joined by Michael Munnick and Carmen Becker. They start by discussing the recent shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness Hall in Hamburg and how it has reopened discussions about discrimination. They then turn to Scotland, where discrimination is again an issue in the election of Nicola Sturgeon’s successor as Leader of the SNP. Are Kate Forbes’ opinions on equality criticised for being religious, or for not being progressive? And finally, they discuss the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life activist arrested apparently for the crime of praying as a protest outside a UK abortion clinic.
Articles DiscussedComedy, Comedians, and Church: The Interplay between Religion and Humor
The Unverifiable Truth-Claim! | Mid-Year Special 2016 (with video)
New Horizons in the Sociology of Religion: Beyond Secularization?
Sociology of Religion – and Religious Studies?
Is Secularism a World Religion?
Researching Radicalisation
Death, Music, and Ritual: Contemporary Requiems in the Commemoration of Death and Violence
Religion, Youth, and Intergenerationality
Researching Religious Diversity
Evangelicalism and Civic Space
A Critical Introduction to the History, Beliefs, and Practices of Wiccans
Religion and Feminism
Communism and Catholicism: Religion and Religious Studies in Lithuania
An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
Categorising “Religion”: From Case Studies to Methodology
Global(ized) religion and the study of religious tensions
Historical, Popular, and Scholarly Constructions of Yoga
Embodied religious practices, child psychology and cognitive neuroscience
ISKCON And When New Religions Aren’t So New Anymore
ISKCON In Britain
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Let Me Be Frank | Bishop Frank Caggiano’s Podcast | Diocese of Bridgeport, CT
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