Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion Podcast

What the Heck Was this Podcast?

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:00:00 -0400

In which we reflect on five years and 100+ episodes, and then we say goodbye.

As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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PENULTIMATE EPISODE: Where Did We Come From? Where Do We Go?

Wed, 28 May 2025 10:00:00 -0400

In which we announce, with sorrow and excitement, that we are wrapping this here pod — and we encourage you to revisit our VERY FIRST EPISODE, to reflect on what we’ve learned and how our thinking about religion has changed over this very, very long semester.

As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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CROSSOVER: Ten on Religion with Dr. Mark Banas

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400

In which we chat about the pod and the book with the host of Ten on Religion, Dr. Mark Banas.

As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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Inked Religion

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400

In which we (mostly Ilyse) go all in on religion & tattoos. Special interest: ACTIVATE.

As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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CROSSOVER: Turn the Page with Jenn Jordan

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400

In which we discuss all things RINDWY with the fabulous Jenn Jordan for the Syosset Public Library's official podcast, Turn the Page. The library is OPEN, y'all!

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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CROSSOVER: Sustainin' Conversation with the Amplify Podcast Network Crew!

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500

In which Megan chats with a handful of folks who are also part of the Amplify Podcast Network's first Sustain stream--Sally Chivers (Wrinkle Radio), Charisse L’Pree (Critical and Curious), and M.E. Luke (Critical Technology Podcast)--plus pod bestie Hannah McGregor.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RELIGION & ADOPTION: What Have We Learned?

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500

In which we review our very depressing and important miniseries discussion on religion and adoption AND play ridiculous orphan games as a reward for having done the hard things

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RELIGION & ADOPTION: Reproductive Freedom

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500

In which Megan tries not to spend the whole hour screaming about Dobbs whilst we discuss what adoption has to do with religious freedom.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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Monkey Man!

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Welcome to our very first movie discussion, nerds! In which we chat about the Ramayana with no Ram, why Hanuman is the Best Beast, Hijra superheroes, and also that Dev Patel should call us.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RINDWY: Writing Together

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In which we reflect on what it was like to find our collective voice. (Spoilers: it was really hard! But also really awesome!)

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RELIGION & ADOPTION: ICWA with Dr. Courtney Lewis

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In which Dr. Courtney Lewis shares her expertise and personal experience with the writing of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Dr. Lewis is Crandall Family Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and the Inaugural Director of the Native American Studies Initiative at Duke University, as well as an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

If you want to follow and boost more Native creators, Dr. Lewis recommends: Red House Project, IllumiNative, A Tribe Called Geek, Mocs and Comics, Indigenous Food Lab, NDN Girls Book Club, NDN Collective, and several more!

As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RINDWY: Choosing Case Studies

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In which we nerd out about how we chose which weirdass historical case studies to support our killjoy theories of religion.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RINDWY: Book birthday surprise bonus content!

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Because--to borrow from Anne Lamott--one of the two best prayers we know is "thank you, thank you, thank you."

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RELIGION & ADOPTION: Religious Freedom

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

What does adoption have to do with religious freedom? Quite a bit, actually.

Tune in to learn more about the ways religion--and especially, you guessed it, white Christian nationalism--shapes the adoption industry.

CN/TW: This episode discusses adoption, foster care, child abuse, and child removal.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RINDWY: Why Write a Book?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Because books is what we do, nerds! Tune in to hear us geek out about why we decided to pivot to v̶i̶d̶e̶o̶ text in our almost-here new title, Religion Is Not Done With You.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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RELIGION & ADOPTION: Overview & Primary Sources

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Welcome to the first of our four episode miniseries on religion and adoption, which actually turned out to have five episodes because, well, there were just too many horrors to be neatly contained in an outline. We're starting off with some basics on adoption, including how different religious traditions do (or do not) engage in the practice. Plus a very special, very dark return of Primary Sources!

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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BOOK CLUB: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Welcome to our first ever book club episode, nerds! This one has it all: misandry, murder, and...martial religions?

Join us for a very wide-ranging chat about Lyndsay Faye's Jane Steele (and also our own research, because you know academics just can't help themselves).

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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We Now Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Did you miss us? We missed you!

Life, as y'all know, uh... finds a way. But we have beaten life back long enough to bring you this update on the pod and what we have scheduled for this, our SEVENTH season!!

Look out for our first-ever book club (Jane Steele, by Lyndsay Faye), two miniseries (one on religion and adoption, one on how we wrote our forthcoming book, Religion Is Not Done With You), plus some one-off So Glad You Asked-style responses to listener questions about things like religion & tattoos AND a sneak peek into Megan's research on #CultsInc and the MOVE bombing.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

It's all happening, nerds. Welcome back!

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LIVE! Time Bandits: How Religion and Race Are Taking Your Time (and How to Take It Back)

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0400

In which we are delighted to talk to the wonderful humans of Miami University Ohio about the ways calendars smuggle white christian supremacy into our everyday lives.

Recorded 2 April 2024

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Crossover Episode: KI101 on "Amplified," with Stacey Copeland

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:00:00 -0500

In which we chat with our new bestie at the Amplify Podcast Network, Stacey Copeland, about podcasting, public scholarship, and why killing joy is the best way to have joy come back bigger, stronger, and more vibrant than ever.

Be sure to check out all the other cool conversations Stacey is having with our fellow nerds for the audio blog series Amplified!

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BOOK CLUB: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:00:00 -0500

WHAT A PREDICAMENT this year has been, nerds! 2023 was in many ways, uh, not our fave.

But we thought it would be good to end this chronological rollercoaster on a high note, so:

You are cordially invited to join us for a cozy winter Gothic misandrist queer murder book club moment! We're reading Lyndsay Faye's delightfully dark Jane Steele, and we think you should, too.

We'll be back at the end of January to chat about the novel. In the meantime, hit us up on social media with comments or questions so we can feature y'all on the pod! Pick up a copy at your local library or independent bookstore, as Levar Burton intended.

And as always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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FLASHBACK: You Still Don't Know About Islam

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500

**THIS IS A RE-RELEASE, NERDS!!!***

hat's right -- there's STILL more to know about the world's second largest religion! Dr. Debra Majeed lends us her insight into Islam, gender, and agency.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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MEETUP: KI101 Office Hours at AAR!!

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:00:00 -0500

It is November, RELI nerds! And too many of you know what that means.

That's right: the American Academy of Religion's annual national meeting is once again upon us, just in time for price-gouging airfare and pre-Thanksgiving travel mayhem.

But it also means Megan and Ilyse are going to be at AAR together for the first time since 2019!!! And we're celebrating this momentous occasion by convening our first ever Keeping It 101 OFFICE HOURS.

Last season's awesome interns made us awesome stickers and other awesome swag, and all of it is yours for the showing up and asking. Let's all gaze upon one another's weary, beautiful faces and be glad we're still here.

We'll be on the patio of the Marriott San Antonio Rivercenter from 3-4pm CST on Saturday, 18 November.

Come through!

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FLASHBACK: Night at the Museum

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:00:00 -0400

**THIS IS A RE-RELEASE, NERDS!!!***

Let’s see what the World Religions Paradigm looks like when we talk curating religion with Dr. Andrew Aghapour.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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FLASHBACK: Early Christianity Is Actually Kind of Interesting

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400

**THIS IS A RE-RELEASE, NERDS!!!***

In which we (mostly Megan) walk you through three things you maybe don't know about early Christianity:

Christianity was kind of a mistake
The New Testament is a messy bitch
Christianity = imperialism

Keywords: BCE/CE, gospels, apocrypha, canon, epistles

Storytime: Becket, Waiting for Godot

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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FLASHBACK: Religious Nationalism

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400

**THIS IS A RE-RELEASE, NERDS!!!***

In which Ilyse yells about nationalism and religion and why religion and politics are never really separate, whilst Megan agrees emphatically and consumes a bubbly beverage

Keywords: nationalism (especially religious nationalism); election

Storytime: we skipped it! it's summer

Homework: Ramaswamy's The Goddess and the Nation; Baker's The Gospel According to the Klan; and a bunch of other stuff -- come on, you know how we are.

Go to the show notes page at Keepingit101.com for our very, very long list of resources.

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FLASHBACK: Intersectionality

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400

**THIS IS A RE-RELEASE, NERDS!!!***

In which we build upon the work of Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw to think about how race-, gender-, and sexuality-based oppressions overlap and inform how our understandings of religion

Keywords: intersectionality, womanism, discrimination, oppression

Storytime: Audre Lorde, "An Open Letter to Mary Daly"

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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In which we are BACK

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Did you miss us? We missed you! Tell us everything you did on your summer vacation, right after we tell you what we're up to this, our SIXTH season(??!?!).

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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What Was This, Then

Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400

After another year-long season, we wrap it up, talk about what’s next, & offer some highlights and reflections. Probably swears, too.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED if calendars are neutral

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400

More nerds than we can count asked why Ilyse is obsessed with calendars, so we distilled that into: are calendars neutral? They aren’t. End of episode?

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INTERN TAKE OVER!

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400

This season, KI101 has had help from three—3!—incredible interns, Juliana Finch (sound design), Evie Wolfe (accessibility) and Rachel Zieff (social media). They’re on the mics this episode, talking public humanities, religion, and teamwork.

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED about the Easter Bunny

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Strictly speaking, none of you asked about the Easter Bunny. A lot of you did, however, ask how Pagan rituals got appropriated into Christian mainstream holidays and, in turn, became global secular phenomenon. We unpack all of that (and Ilyse loses her composure epically) in this very special episode.

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INCORRECT: Yoga & Appropriation

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500

We’ve talked yoga before but since it keeps coming up—on the news, in our classrooms, with our friends—we’re talking about it again. Folks are still INCORRECT when we talk about yoga, when we talk about appropriation, and when we talk about how yoga is and is not appropriated.

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED about What We’re Watching

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Nerds, you’ve asked what we are consuming and what we are teaching, and we’ve got answers.

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INCORRECT: Sports

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Lots of people do not care about sports, including Megan. But Ilyse is here to tell Megan that not-caring about sports is INCORRECT, since sports gives us a window into thinking about religion.

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED if religion is dangerous

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500

So many nerds wanted to know if religion was inherently bad, or inherently good, or the cause of wars, or the cause of abuse, or the cause of violence, or the cure to violence, or the reason for any number of problems, atrocities, and hardships. We decided to blend those into one question-smoothie and talk about whether or not religion is dangerous.

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INCORRECT: Hijab

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500

In which we (mostly Ilyse) yell about how it is possible to be so very INCORRECT about women choosing to get dressed in the morning.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

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Happy Gregorian new year, nerds. We recorded this episode before the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's so-called modesty police. There are, of course, more resources in the shownotes, but we want to especially encourage you to check out the work of journalist Hoda Katebi, the Collective for Black Iranians, and the five-part series on modern Iranian history Profs. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour did for the Dig Podcast.

If you are not yourself Iranian, we also encourage you to NOT make this uprising about your shit. Please don't cut your split ends on social media and call it solidarity, especially if you're not calling on your own country to end its targeting and oppression of Muslims. Iranian activists are leading. It is our duty to listen and learn from them, support them in whatever way they are asking us to support them, and otherwise get the fuck out of their way.

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED about Why We Do This

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

We’re SO GLAD YOU ASKED us why we study religion, why we do this podcast, why we care so much, and why we have alienated a good deal of our family, friends, and pets because we just can’t stop won’t stop talking religion.

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INCORRECT: Star Wars, Fandoms, & Fanatics

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Is this an episode that will live in infamy? Perhaps, because in it, Ilyse rails against the notion that fandoms can’t possibly be religious by talking Star Wars. May the force be with you, nerds, because the anger in this INCORRECT is so very real.

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED about Religion and Disability

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Megan & Ilyse have talked about chronic illness and disability in passing and in the gone-but-always-in-our-hearts Primary Sources segment, and we’re here to answer a question about how disability works with religion (and how disability studies fits within religious studies).

Find more at keepingit101.com!

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INCORRECT! Jihad

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

In which we (mostly Ilyse) yell about how it is possible lo these many years after 9/11/01 to still be so darn INCORRECT about jihad.

Head over to keepingit101.com for show notes, transcripts, and more!

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED about Monsters

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

It’s spooky season, nerds, and we’re so glad you asked us about supposedly secular monsters, scary stories, ghouls and goblins. Shocking no one, we tell you that monsters are rarely just secular specters, and things that go bump in the night are often tied to religious imperialism.

Be sure to check the show notes for transcripts, homework and more at keepingit101.com.

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INCORRECT: Drinking the Koolaid

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Nerds, nerds, nerds. This is a doozy of an episode, in which we (mostly Megan) tell us why saying “drinking the kool-aid” is so totally not a funny popculture joke about being brainwashed but is instead utterly about race, religion, gender, and anti-Blackness. Saying it after you know more? Deeply INCORRECT.

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SO GLAD YOU ASKED about Food & Religion

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

This is the first SO GLAD YOU ASKED episode. We got a LOT of requests for this one! So today we can’t cite just one nerd, but we’re here to answer the question: “Religion and food: what’s THAT all about?”

Shownotes, transcripts, and more at keepingit101.com.

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Very Special Episode: The Sentimental Education of Hannah McGregor

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:00:00 -0400

In which pod inspiration, icon, and aspirational bestie Dr. Hannah McGregor (that's Associate Professor Dr. Hannah McGregor to you, nerds) chats with us about her just published meditations on care, community, and learning: A Sentimental Education

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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INCORRECT: Reproductive Healthcare

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

This is our first INCORRECT episode, where we kindly but firmly insist that religion does more and different work than you might think that it does. In this one, we challenge some basic assumptions about religion and reproductive justice.

Expanded show notes, transcripts and more at keepingit101.com.

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What's All This, Please?

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0400

We’re back, dear nerds! New season, new funding, new formats. And we’ve got some explaining—and kicking off—to do.

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BONUS: SCOREBOARD

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:00:00 -0400

100k downloads? what is HAPPENING?!?!!!?

You are, nerds, and we appreciate you so much. Thanks for listening.

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Crossover Episode: "Feel Good Academia" with Jessica Albrecht and Leandro Wallace

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400

In which we chat with the hosts of EnGender Conversations about podcasting, public scholarship, and why academic friendship is magic

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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WRP in Review: RELIGIONS IN SPACE

Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 -0400

We’ve been around the world and boy are our arms tired. What did we learn this year, nerds?

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Field Trip: Night at the Museum

Wed, 11 May 2022 14:00:00 -0400

Let’s see what the World Religions Paradigm looks like when we talk curating religion with Dr. Andrew Aghapour.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Zoroastrianism > Freddie Mercury

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Freddie is our forever champions, but there’s so much more to know about the world’s oldest monotheism. Fulbright scholar and photographer Kainaz Amaria shares her experiences documenting the Parsi community of Mumbai.

Keywords: Parsi, faravahar, Ahura Mazda

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Buddha’s Delight, Part 2

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

We’re still working on letting go of desire — and we’ll never stop wanting to learn about Buddhism in Thailand with Dr. Tom Borchert.

Keywords: four noble truths; eightfold path

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Buddha’s Delight, Part 1

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Let’s talk about the history and reach of one of the world’s largest religions (and why we think about it as a religion at all), featuring the expertise of Dr. Dixuan Yujing Chen.

Keywords: Buddha, Theravada, Mahayana, buddhas, bodhisattva, devas

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Making Mel Brooks Proud: Judaism

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0400

All IRMF has ever wanted was to live up to the example set by the inimitable Mr. Melvin James Kaminsky. Now’s her chance. Plus Dr. Shari Rabin shares her expertise on American Judaism and its complicated relationship with whiteness.

Keywords: Torah; Talmud; Ashkenazi; Yiddish; Ladino; Sephardi; Mizrahi; Maghrebi

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Very Special Episode: Re-revisiting La 'Rona

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500

What else can we say, nerds?

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Christianity Beyond Whiteness

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500

There is so, so much more to Christianity beyond the white U.S. mainstream you can’t help but hear about — and Dr. Jorge J. Rodríguez is here to teach us about it.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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You Still Don't Know about Islam (Part 2)

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

That's right -- there's STILL more to know about the world's second largest religion! Dr. Debra Majeed lends us her insight into Islam, gender, and agency.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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You Still Don't Know about Islam (Part 1)

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

And honestly, there's so much to know! Luckily Drs. Hussein Rashid and Kristian Petersen are here to share their expertise with us.

Keywords: Sunni; Shia/Shi'i; Sufism; caliph

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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LIVE! "Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Approach to Studying Religion" with Dr. Jenny Wiley Legath @ Princeton University

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

"Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Approach to Studying Religion" (6 October 2021)

Being a live recording of our conversation with Dr. Jenny Wiley Legath for the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion at Princeton University. Thanks to Jenny, CCSR Director Jonathan Gold, and all the amazing folks at Princeton for having us!

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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What a Mess: Religion & Law

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500

What did you learn this season? Let’s find out as we apply the critique of World Religions to religion and law in the People's Republic of China.

Keywords: Uighurs; house churches; CAA

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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What Is Hinduism? Part 2

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500

How are contemporary Hindus making sense of their history? Drs. Shreena Niketa Gandhi and Dheepa Sundaram walk us through the complicated and multiple ways lived Hinduism manifests.

Keywords: Dalit; Hindutva

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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What Is Hinduism? Part 1

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500

A lot, is what. So very much. Dr. Arun Brahmbhatt helps us on a quick tour through the history of Hinduism(s).

Keywords: Hinduism/Hindu traditions; dharma; caste; avatar

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Sick of Not Knowing about Sikhi

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500

We are, too! But Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is going to share his wisdom with us.

Keywords: guru, Guru Granth Sahib, gurdwara

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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What Are Indigenous Religions? Part 2

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Learning more about Native religion(s) in what’s now the Americas, with the assistance of Dr. Abel Gomez.

Keywords: Indigenous; Mni Wiconi

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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What Are Indigenous Religions? Part 1

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Is Shinto an Indigenous religion? Spoilers: it’s complicated. Dr. Jolyon Thomas breaks it down for us.

Keywords: Indigenous; appropriation; kami

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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You Don't Know African Diasporic Religions

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Well, you don’t. But luckily Drs. Fadeke Castor and Akissi Britton do, and they’re here to help us learn more.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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World Religions, But Better

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

We hate the “world religions” paradigm but we’re stuck with it. So this season, we’re bringing you this problematic approach to studying religion with a side of snark and the assistance of lots of smart folks who know more about these religions than we do!

Homework: is all stuff we've assigned before. You can also go back and review the first few episodes from season 1 for extra credit.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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LIVE! "Public Humanities, Public Jokes" with Dr. J. Barton Scott @ the University of Toronto

Sat, 04 Sep 2021 10:00:00 -0400

“Public Humanities, Public Jokes: An Interview with the Killjoys Behind Hit Religion Podcast 'Keeping it 101'” (11 March 2021)

Being a live recording of our conversation with Dr. J. Barton Scott for the Department of the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Thanks to Bart and all the amazing folks at UT for having us! Watch the video recording of the event here.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Review Session: Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork

Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

What have we learned this semester? Why did so many smart folks agree to talk to us about so many interesting topics? What happens next? You’ll have to tune in to find out, nerds!

Homework: Go walk some children in nature. Don't forget your sunscreen!

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Twitter, Jinn, and the Great Conjunction with Dr. Ali Olomi

Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Guest lecture chat with Prof. Ali Olomi, reigning king of Wednesdays, the smart+fun twitter thread, and host of the Head On History Podcast.

Keyword: jinn (duh)

Homework: Routledge Companion to the Qur'an, eds. George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, and Daniel A. Madigan (forthcoming Sept. 2021)

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Islam Is More than You Think It Is

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

We (mostly Ilyse) show you why there’s way more to know about Islam and Muslims than the life of the Prophet or the latest travel ban.

Keywords: Qur'an, exegesis, hadith, sunnah, shariah

Storytime: from Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam?

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Was Jesus a Wizard? with Dr. Shaily Patel

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Neither of us are professionally or confessionally equipped to answer this question, so we’re bringing in Prof. Shaily Patel, Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech and baller scholar of magic & religion.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Very Special Episode: 'Rona Revisited

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Can you believe it's been a full freaking year of this mess? Ilyse and Megan do a quick round-up of how religious communities are responding to global crisis AND are re-joined by a very special guest.

Homework: still no, because still having a freaking pandemic. But maybe check out Love Island UK if you need a trashy distraction.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Early Christianity Is Actually Kind of Interesting

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

In which we (mostly Megan) walk you through three things you maybe don't know about early Christianity:

Christianity was kind of a mistake
The New Testament is a messy bitch
Christianity = imperialism

Keywords: BCE/CE, gospels, apocrypha, canon, epistles

Storytime: Becket, Waiting for Godot

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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White Evangelicalism Racism with Dr. Anthea Butler

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest lecture chat with Prof. Anthea Butler, possibly the public face of why you need to care about religion in the US? Most recently the author of White Evangelical Racism (UNC 2021).

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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White American Evangelicalism + Racism = BFF

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

In which we (mostly Megan) quickly survey the long and sordid history of white supremacy, American politics, and evangelicalism in what’s now the US.

Keywords: racism, white supremacy, evangelicalism

Storytime: Baldwin, from "Letter from a Region in My Mind"

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Simran Jeet Singh Keeps Going

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Guest lecture chat with Prof. Simran Jeet Singh, author of oh so many things, but most recently Fauja Singh Keeps Going, which both NPR and the New York Public Library listed as a top 2020 title.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Public Scholarship and Representation

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

In which we talk about why it's important for minoritized scholars to share what they know with the public, why it can be daunting and exhausting and dangerous to do so, and why we're so excited for writer/teacher/scholar/activist Dr. Simran Jeet Singh to join us next time.

Storytime: Sucharov, Public Influence

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Welcome Back, Nerds!

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

In which Ilyse and Megan provide a quick refresher on what we covered in seasons 1& 2 and set up the new format for season 3: intros to public scholarship, white evangelical racism in what's now the US, why early Christianity is way more complicated (and interesting!) than you might know, and why the study of Islam can, should, and does include djinns, magic, and astrology.

Storytime: Mary Hunt's WATERtalk, where she once again teaches us that "together, we are a genius."

Homework: check out the rad work of our season 3 guests & go follow them on twitter -- you won't be sorry.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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BONUS: Keeping It 101 Course Evals with Prof. Kristian Petersen

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:00:00 -0500

Friend of the pod and OG Religion Nerd podcaster Prof. Kristian Petersen made us this incredibly thoughtful compilation of "course evaluations" of the pod!

OUR EMOTIONS, Y'ALL

OUR EMOTIONS

Thanks to Prof. Petersen for pulling together and producing this episode, and to Profs. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Richard Newton, Candace Mixon, Shobhana Xavier, Greg Soden, Molly Bassett, Diana Murtaugh Coleman, Simran Jeet Singh, and Shreena Niketa Gandhi for their generous contributions.

Keywords: course evaluations; intersectionality

Homework: if you're not already following KP on the tweeters, he's at @babakristian; get on it. And check out New Books in Religion and New Books in Islamic Studies, for real.

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As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Review Session: What Did We Learn? Where Do We Go From Here?

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

In which we review this season's big take-away lessons, reflect on what's working and how we can improve, and get our collective Grinch on.

Homework: have fun!

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Extra Credit with Professor Judith Weisenfeld

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

In which Megan and Ilyse fangirl out at Prof. Weisenfeld, who generously shares her 101 on race, religion, and why historians ARE theorists (even when they think "theory" is some nonsense talk)

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in what's NOT the United States

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

All aboard the Global Religion+Gender+Sexuality Are Complicated and Historically, Geographically, and Culturally Contingent Express! (We leaned hard into the train jokes for this episode.)

Storytime: Mahmood, from Politics of Piety

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in what's now the U.S.

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which we offer you a collage of historical examples about non-men doing religion and insist that all the people who do religion have gender

Keywords: patriarchy, exegesis

Storytime: Bynum, from Gender and Religion

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Race and Religion in South Asia &, well, Not-the-US

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which Ilyse helps us think about the racialization of Muslims and why racialization of religions in not-the-US is both similar to and different from the American kind

Storytime: Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Race and Religion in what's now the United States

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which we shock and/or awe you with the ways Americans built race out of religion (also violence -- you know how we do)

Keyword: orientalism

Storytime: Abdul Khabeer, Muslim Cool

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Intersectionality

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:00:00 -0400

In which we build upon the work of Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw to think about how race-, gender-, and sexuality-based oppressions overlap and inform how our understandings of religion

Keywords: intersectionality, womanism, discrimination, oppression

Storytime: Audre Lorde, "An Open Letter to Mary Daly"

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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#ScholarStrike - September 8th & 9th, 2020

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which we urge you to join us in using what we have to strike at racism: strike it down, strike at it, strike against it.

Join us in a #ScholarStrike on September 8th and 9th, 2020

PDF transcript available here

More info available in the show notes

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Race, Gender, and Sexuality: What's Religion Got to Do with 'Em?

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which we are BACK, our Chili Babies! And bringing you a whole new season looking at the intersection(s) of religion, race, gender, and sexuality.

Keywords: social construct, race, racialization, gender

Storytime: Weisenfeld, New World A-Coming

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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Smart Grrl Summer: Religion & Pop Culture

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which Megan yells about Not Without My Daughter and why we should care about how American pop culture shapes our understanding of religion, whilst Ilyse tries to keep her from citing All The Things

Keywords: popular culture, pulp, American minority religions

Storytime: Goodwin, Abusing Religion

Homework: ditto

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, transcripts, & more.

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Smart Grrl Summer: Religion & Sound with Prof. Vicki Brennan

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which Dr. Vicki Brennan blows our tiny little minds by teaching us what we miss when we don't listen hard to religion

Keywords: soundscape; acoustemology

Homework: Brennan, Singing Yoruba Christianity

As always, be sure to see the extended show notes for links, definitions, and other hidden gems at keepingit101.com!

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Smart Grrl Summer: Religious Nationalism

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which Ilyse yells about nationalism and religion and why religion and politics are never really separate, whilst Megan agrees emphatically and consumes a bubbly beverage

Keywords: nationalism (especially religious nationalism); election

Storytime: we skipped it! it's summer

Homework: Ramaswamy's The Goddess and the Nation; Baker's The Gospel According to the Klan; and a bunch of other stuff -- come on, you know how we are.

Go to the show notes page at Keepingit101.com for our very, very long list of resources.

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Smart Grrl Summer: Cults

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:00:00 -0400

In which Megan yells about how the word "cult" gets used to discourage and police radical religious innovation while Ilyse tries to get a word in edgewise.

Storytime: JZ Smith, from Imagining Religion

Homework: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. But go read them outside -- it's summer!!

Visit keepingit101.com for detailed show notes & more resources!

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Review Session: What Have We Learned and What Happens Next?

Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which we review what we've learned and what we hope you've learned, dear listeners, in this, our very first season/semester of Keeping It 101

Storytime: Sylvester Johnson, African American Religions 1500-2000

Homework: NAH, it's summer break! But we did make some recommendations for religion-related funtime readings.

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Extracurriculars: Ru-ligion Ru-vealed! the T on Religion & Drag Race

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 01:00:00 -0400

In which we spill the T on "Drag Race," the prosperity gospel of RuPaul Andre Charles, and why queerness and religion aren't mutually exclusive.

Not a Race Chaser? Definitely check out the show notes for this episode - we have a bunch of images and videos to help you follow along. And after all, if you're not gagging over the lewks these queens are serving, you're only getting half the story, squirrelfriend.

Keywords: queer/ness, ball culture

Homework: it's our longest episode this season! So you know we assigned way too much. Start with Drew Konow's "Contouring for Christ" and Melissa Wilcox's Queer Nuns.

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Extra Credit with Professor Omid Safi

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 01:00:00 -0400

in which we chat with our dear friend and scholar-goals icon Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

Homework: Radical Love, "Sufi Heart," and MLK's Riverside Church speech

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You might be done with religion, but religion is not done with you

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:00:00 -0400

In which we discuss who gets to choose their religious belonging, why "spiritual but not religious" gives us the agita, and how--even if you're not religious--religion is lurking under your floorboards.

Keywords: voluntarism, racialization, secular/ism, perennialism

Storytime: Jakobsen and Pellegrini, Love the Sin

Homework: LOTS, so check out the shownotes. But be sure to look for Patti Miller's Good Catholics even if you skip everything else.

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Very Special Episode: Religion in the Time of 'Rona

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0400

In which we give you a quick (okay, it's not that quick) rundown on where we're at in this challenging time, what religious communities are doing to respond to the crisis, and how COVID-19 helps us think about our own religiosity.

PLUS very special guest host joins us in the studio to talk about how she's responding to the Coronavirus in her community.

Homework: NOPE. It's a pandemic. Read or watch something fun and distracting! We have lots of recommendations in the shownotes.

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What does it mean to be "religious?"

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0400

In which we think about how personal religious commitments and practices get mediated by the state, why and how millions of Muslims make pilgrimage to Mecca every year, why the Archdiocese of Philadelphia thinks Megan is still Catholic, and why tiny Ilyse tortured her siblings with rice during Pesach

Keywords: religious; hajj; hagiography

Storytime: Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice

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World religions: shall we not

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:00:00 -0500

In which we talk about WHY we're still talking about "major," "minor," or "world" religions -- because despite those models being racist and imperialist and white supremacist, "religion" can also help minoritized religion access rights and legal protections.

Keywords: Native/Indigenous religions; social construct; agency

Storytime: Wenger, "We Are Guaranteed Freedom"

Homework: Dunbar-Ortiz, Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; Denison, Ute Land Religion in the American West; Wenger, We Have a Religion; Lewis, Sovereign Entrepreneurs; King, The Truth about Stories; research #NoDAPL, Mauna Kea, and the Wet’suwet’en; read Debbie Reese on land acknowledgements; and find out who's land you're on

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Major religions? Minor religions? Must we?

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

In which we discuss the imperialist history of "religion," and ask why it's so major that some religions get minoritized.

Keywords: imperialism; minoritization; structural/epistemic violence

Storytime: JZ Smith, "Religion Is Not a Native Category"

Homework: Tomoko Masuzawa's Invention of World Religions, plus Ilyse and Megan have both written shorter pieces on this topic. Check out the show notes for more info!

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Who gets left out of "religion?"

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0500

In which we discuss why we have to define religion in order to protect it, and who gets left out of those definitions & protections.

Keywords: disestablishment; free exercise

Show & tell: the Satanic Temple's statue of Baphomet

Homework: Sullivan's Impossibility of Religious Freedom; Barringer Gordon's Mormon Question; Cusack's Invented Religions PLUS the documentary Hail Satan? AND Ilyse has some resources for more inclusive school calendars -- check out our show notes for more info!

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What the heck is religion, and what the heck is this podcast?

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 23:00:00 -0500

Our very first episode! In which we talk about what the heck religion is, why you should know more about it, and why it's probably more complicated than you think.

Keywords: prescriptive; descriptive; creedal; votive

Storytime: Bellah, from Habits of the Heart

Homework: Nye, Religion: The Basics; Martel, Life of Pi; Walker, The Color Purple

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