Podcasts by RAD RELIGION
Charting the borderlands between religion and pop culture
Further podcasts by Cale Hubble
Podcast on the topic Religion und Spiritualität
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Segment 24B – Money and Capitalism from 2012-12-06T01:05:15
Could we say that capitalism is the religion of modernity? Or at least a part thereof? For the final topic of Rad Religion, we chatted about how money and capitalism could be ‘religious’...
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Segment 24A – Thai Buddhist Pop from 2012-12-06T00:43:51
I recently visited Thailand and was impressed by the richness of Thai popular religious traditions. We played a couple of Thai pop songs as part of this week’s segment. It was the first half ...
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Segment 23 – American Buddhist Folk from 2012-11-15T00:25:09
Guitar-pickin’ monks and bluesy Buddhists are our topic today. Listen to us chat about the cultural flexibility of Buddhism here: We played a couple of American Buddhist folksy tracks: ‘...
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Contemporary Torii Gates from 2012-10-24T23:16:40
Torii gates are a distinctive feature of Japanese architecture, and in recent years some of them have been updated with elements of contemporary design; they’ve also become inspiration for ot...
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Segment 22 – Romantic Love from 2012-10-18T00:41:52
Today we looked at what might be the most widespread myth in Western culture: the myth of romantic love. Hear us chat about it here: We played ‘This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)’ by Na...
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Spontaneous Shrines from 2012-10-11T00:29:26
Image credits: Princess Diana; Colombia; September 11; Aurora. Just a brief post this week, nodding towards an interesting new mourning ritual that has emerged in the West over the last twenty year...
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Segment 21 – Sikh Rock from 2012-10-04T01:44:35
Christians aren’t the only ones rockin’ in God’s name – today we looked at the Sikh bands who are doing the same thing. Listen to some tracks and our discussion here: We lis...
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Segment 20 – Day of the Dead from 2012-09-27T01:27:56
Today we tried to get ourselves immersed in Mexican culture with the quirky traditions of la Día de los Muertos. Hear us chat about it here: We played a couple of traditional Mexican tunes to get i...
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Segment 19 – Zen Jazz from 2012-09-20T01:47:59
Flow, oneness, connection, selflessness, immediacy – all of these notions are central to both Zen Buddhism and jazz improvisation. Hear us chat about the links here: Tracks we played were ...
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Segment 18 – Hindu Rap from 2012-09-13T01:28:23
Take some Indian mythology and put it to a beat, and you’ll get today’s topic – Hindu rap. Listen to the segment here: (NB: The tracks are now included in the audio here, due to c...
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