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.
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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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