Podcasts by Religion Bites

#025 SEASON 2 Getting Started: Religion, Race, and Coloniality (Religion Bites podcast, s2e1) from 2020-09-10T14:13:58

This  is the first episode of season 2, which is on the general theme of  religion, race, and coloniality. The episodes for this season are  recordings from lectures that I presen...

#024, Does Religious Studies have a problem with race? (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T13:25:59

This  podcast is based on a blog article that I first wrote a couple of years  ago, and was recorded at the end of 2018 (soon before I fell ill).  Although in reflection on issues...

#023, What are we looking for when we look at ‘religion and popular culture’? (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T13:23:28

If we are exploring religion in culture, then how and what do we talk about as religion?

This  is a question that goes across much of the contemporary study of  religion, and im...

#022 Decolonisation of Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T13:11:59

There can be no doubt that the academic study of religion emerged out  of European colonialism. There are various lines of descent for the  discipline, and like much of the humanities ...

#021 Studying Religion without Studying Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T13:06:06

I am a student of religion who does not study religion. I study what people think and talk about as religion.

I  study the spaces, places, things, objects, ideas, practices, and &nbs...

#020 Race and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T12:54:05

When we speak of religion are we in fact talking about race? Does the  idea of ‘religion’ only make sense if we consider it as a particular  instance of a racial formation?

A wr...

#019 Exploring the Burkini Ban with intersectionality (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T12:36:19

To understand the burkini bans in France in summer 2016, our starting  point needs to be based on an assumption of intersectionality. The bans  are not only about religion or security,...

#018 Religion is like chocolate? (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T12:28:54

The history of the idea  of chocolate is somewhat similar to the history of how we think about  religions. Chocolate became chocolate through colonial encounter and  appropriation...

#017 What gloves to wear in the study of religion? (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T12:13:16

So, here is a question that is rarely asked in Religion 101 classes: What type of gloves should you be wearing?

All  studies of religion are a study of humans, people and the worlds,...

#016 POSTCOLONIALISM and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T12:03:02

Postcolonialism  and religion: in what ways are history and the contemporary world  relevant not only to the topic of religion, but also to how we analyse  and understand religion...

#The problem of BELIEF in the study of Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:58:59

In this episode, my aim is to encourage you to stop using the word ‘belief’ when you think about (and talk about) religion.

It  is not a useful word, and for most of the time it does...

#014 AGENCY and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:49:23

Agency is a concept often used to understand how people participate in (and sometimes resist) religious contexts and structures.

That  is, how do people who are in a subordinate posi...

#013, INTERSECTIONALITY and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:38:30

This  episode introduces the concept of intersectionality, a way to  understand complex issues and identities deriving in particular from the  work of Kimberlee Crenshaw.

A...

#012, Race, Ethnicity and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:31:08

Is race a matter of identity (what people think of differences) or is it a biological given?

How  is it that the idea of race-as-a-given works to structure and enforce  differen...

#011, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:25:46

Gender  matters to our understanding of culture and religion. How we understand  gender, gender differences, and the understandings and practices of  gender has a profound impact ...

#010, Religion, Power, and Ideology (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:21:45

An  understanding of power, in its many forms, is an important part of the  study of religion and culture. In this podcast on ‘Religion, Power and  Ideology’ I give an outline of ...

#009, Power, gender, and race (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:17:21

Religion  does not just exist within the context of culture. What we think of as  religion always also exists within contexts of power, gender, race,  ethnicity, and other areas o...

#008, Religion and culture (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T11:01:04

Building  on the discussion in the last two episodes, I introduce here the idea  of subculture to explore through examples the linkages between such  cultures of resistance, the c...

#007, Culture in religion: there is no gap (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T10:57:23

When  we reverse the discussion, and explore how we can understand the many  ways in which we can explore culture within religion, again the gap  between the two disappears.

#006, Mind the gap: religion in culture (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T10:42:45

Continuing  the discussion of religion and culture, in this episode we explore what  is seen as the gap between the two. Looking at specific examples of  religion in culture – in ...

#005, Culture and religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T10:38:38

Religion is a cultural  practice. And culture is bound up with religious ideas, identities and religion practice. Religion can be understood as a form of culture, and  the study of rel...

#004, The relevance of religion (Religion Bites podcast) from 2020-08-28T10:34:01

In order to understand the  contemporary world we need to take religion seriously. Although some  may think of religion as an ancient (or medieval) relic of bygone times,  religio...

#003 Talking about religion (Religion Bites Podcast) from 2020-08-28T10:30:48

If it is difficult to define religion, what about if we try to avoid doing so? Can we talk about religion without a definition?

Trying to find a definition is almost like stepping through...

#002, Definitions of Religion from 2020-08-28T10:24:10

Defining religion: What is it all about and what do we mean by the term religion?

Well  one thing to ask before we start exploring this is does it really  matter. Surely we know...

#001, Introduction to Religion Bites from 2020-08-28T09:56:54

This is a podcast by Malory Nye on the study of religion