Podcasts by Research On Religion
A weekly podcast exploring academic research on religion and featuring top scholars in history, sociology, political science, economics and religious studies.
Further podcasts by tgill@u.washington.edu
Podcast on the topic Religion und Spiritualität
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#1 Matthew Moore on Buddhism, Meditating Machines, and the Robopocalypse. from 2018-09-16T08:00:42
It is said that Jesus hits like the atom bomb. If so, then Buddha, or at least this episode on Buddhism and near-future technology, might be the daisy cutter of philosophy. Whereas most of the ep...
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#2 Daniel Stiles on Cowboy Churches from 2018-09-09T08:00:18
One of the greatest joys of doing this podcast for the past eight years has been to meet some pretty incredible people who are just "ordinary" citizens going about their daily life. My goal from t...
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#3 Ron Hassner on Sacred Spaces and Holy Conflict from 2018-09-02T08:00:28
Academia is a world that can be filled with intense jealousies and envy, wherein one professor is always concerned why the work of another professor is more cited than their own. We all suffer fro...
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#4 Emily Fisher Gray on Luther’s 95 Theses from 2018-08-26T08:00:30
During 2017, we undertook a series of episodes dedicated to Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. A number of superb interviews came from that series, including the Catholic response to Pr...
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#5 Colleen Haight on the Oracle of Delphi from 2018-08-19T08:00:50
As noted in my farewell monologue, the characteristics that I look for in an interview are topics that are a little off the beaten path and the enthusiasm of the scholar for his/her topic. Dr. Col...
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#6 Rod Stark on How Religion Benefits Everyone, Including Atheists from 2018-08-12T08:00:23
Organized religion and religious believers often get painted with a bad reputation, and sometimes it is justly due, but most of the time it is not. Prof. Rod Stark, a co-founder of Baylor's Instit...
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#7 Jim Papandrea on Christology, Superheroes, and Science Fiction Films from 2018-08-05T08:00:58
Modern social media is a wondrous thing. Without it, this podcast would have never come into being, and it is unlikely that I would have been able to find half of my guests. Many of my ideas for ...
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#8 Larry Iannaccone on Sacrifice, Stigma, and the Economics of Religion from 2018-07-29T08:00:55
I owe a great deal professionally to the work of Larry Iannaccone, a professor of economics at Chapman University as he played a pivotal role in my intellectual development, putting me on a researc...
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#9 Carmel Chiswick on the Economics of Being Jewish in America from 2018-07-22T08:00:49
Prof. Carmel Chiswick (George Washington University) is a scholar's scholar. Dr. Chiswick is an economist to be reckoned with when it comes to what we usually think about when we talk economics (e...
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#10 Karrie Koesel on Religion and Politics in China from 2018-07-15T08:00:01
This was the very first podcast episode we aired and the second interview that I conducted. I learned of Prof. Karrie Koesel (of the University of Oregon at the time, now at Notre Dame) when I was...
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