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Religious Experience
In this wide-ranging interview (our 50th!), Ann Taves and David Wilson discuss the concept of religious experience. Taves challenges traditional models of religious experience, rejecting both an...
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A Brief Re-Examination of the Concept of Belief in the Study of Religion
Belief […] can be used as a concept to bridge […] frameworks, to allow scholars to understand and appreciate the framework within which religious actors presume to act without using it themselves (or...
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Ralph Hood on Mysticism
One of the primary interests of scholars and researchers from diverse academic disciplines has been in exploration of mysticism. Mysticism has been observed within a variety of traditions and...
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Ayahuasca as a Gateway Drug (Toward a Less Stigmatized Academic Discussion of...
Published by the Religious Studies Project on 6 November 2013, in response to Andrew Dawson’s interview on Santo Daime (4 Novemberr 2013). With the presumption that one of the major purposes of the...
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Religious Studies and the Paranormal, Part 1
In October 2013, a four day international conference was held at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, on the theme of ‘Anthropology and the Paranormal’. This special two part episode explores...
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Religious Studies and the Paranormal, Part 2
In October 2013, a four day international conference was held at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, on the theme of ‘Anthropology and the Paranormal’. This special two part episode explores...
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Psychology of What? Religion, Spirituality, or Meaning: In Search of a Proper...
Psychology of religion provides an avenue of theoretical and methodologically empirical inquiry into the study of belief and experience. Particularly, the individual’s experience, both personal and...
View ArticleReligious Experience: Understanding and Explaining (Video)
In the academic study of ‘religion’, an organization that is at the forefront of encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue is the Grace Davie and Jay Demerath – were recorded at the SSSR Annual Meeting...
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Psychology of Religion at Its Best…and Less Best
There were a number of excellent talks at the (deep breath) American Psychological Association Division 36 Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 2015 Mid-Year Conference hosted by...
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The Supernatural and the New Comparativism
Jeffrey J. Kripal tells David G. Robertson about his approach to studying “paranormal” and “supernatural” phenomena. The conversation begins by explaining how Kripal came to be studying figures like...
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Religion and Film
When thinking about ‘religion and film’ it might be quite tempting to take a simplistic and narrow view, reducing the topic to the study of ‘Biblical Epics’ such as The Robe or The Ten Commandments, or...
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Editors’ Picks, Summer 2018: Re-Experiencing Religious Experience
During our “summer break”, various members of the RSP editorial team will be sharing their thoughts on some podcasts from the RSP archive that they think you should listen to (again). Editors’ Picks,...
View ArticleThe Dark Goddess: A Post-Jungian Interpretation
In an interview with Ross Downing, PhD candidate Áine Warren discusses her research into the ‘Dark Goddess’ at the University of Edinburgh. Drawn into this community of Dark Goddess adherents through...
View ArticleThe Critical Humanist Study of Islam
What sort of discursive traps to we fall into when talking about ‘Islam’ or ‘the West’? How might we reframe our discussions with a critical humanist approach? In this episode, Khurram Hussain joins...
View ArticleCharting the Playful & Proper Study of Religion
In this week’s episode Sam Gill joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss his recent book The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith. They consider different methodological and...
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