40. IBP: Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment - a podcast by The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

Jason ?nanda Josephson Storm received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University in 2006 and is tenured at Williams College in their Religious Studies Department. He has three primary research areas: Japanese Religions, European Intellectual History, and Theory more broadly. He has been working to articulate new research models for Religious Studies in the wake of the collapse of poststructuralism as a guiding ethos in the Humanities.

Jason and I discuss his book 'The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences' from 2017 as well as his text on inventing religion in Japan. We delve into the role of enchantment and the myth of disenchantment, the role of enchantment in science and the fascinating indulgences of many of the great scientific thinkers in spiritualism and enchanted beliefs. We cover East & West philosophy, The Kyoto School, Metamodernism, and more. Our conversation also joins up nicely with previous guests and the desire to give emergence to something new after post-modernism and modernism, and for Buddhists, something beyond the cultural infiltration of both in contemporary western Buddhism.

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Episode Links
Jason's university page: https://religion.williams.edu/faculty/jason-josephson
Intelligence Squared podcast with John Gray: https://soundcloud.com/intelligence2/adam-phillips-and-john-gray
John Gray's Straw Dogs: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374270933

Music
https://robinmitchell.bandcamp.com/

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