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 DiscussedFourteen to One! | Mid-Year Special 2015
Minority Religions and the Law
Discursive Approaches and the Crises of Religious Studies
Gender, queer theory and religion
Religious Demography in the US
Of Demons, Saints and Heaven: Andean religious beliefs in Peru
Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion
Religion and Planetary Ethics
Religion and Film
The Invention of the Secular Academy
Religion, gender and corporeality
21st Century Irish Paganism
Lived Religion: Part 2
Lived Religion: Part 1
The Supernatural and the New Comparativism
Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
‘Religious’ and ‘Spiritual’ Struggles: Now in ‘Nonreligious’ and ‘Nonspiritual’ flavors!
Is Religion Special? A Critical Look at Religion, Wellbeing and Prosociality
Christian Reconstruction
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