Study Religion

Dept. of Religious Studies at UA

Study Religion is a production of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. The podcast brings listeners into the life of the department through discussions with faculty, student work, analysis of current events and popular culture, and interviews about the state of religious studies as a field. It is a chance to listen in to the conversations we're having on the balconies and inside the offices of Manly Hall, the department building and our logo.

  • 42 minutes 7 seconds
    Ep. 26 Example #4: Seduction Forums
    In this episode of our new mini-series Examples, Ciara Eichhorst, the American Examples Fellow and a masters student in our department, discusses the topic of online Seduction Forums with 2022 AE participant Suzanne van Geuns. Dr. van Geuns is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion at Princeton University. Her scholarship broadly examines the intellectual exchange between computational projects and the gendered or sexual imagination, with her most recent project focusing on artificial intelligence research as it appears in heterosexual seduction advice. Her chapter on seduction forums will appear in the forthcoming volume four of the American Examples anthology series. You can read more about American Examples at www.americanexamples.ua.edu. A transcript of this episode is available at https://religion.ua.edu/about/podcasts/ Ep. 25 Example #4: Seduction Forums By Dept. of Religious Studies at Univ. of Alabama is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
    4 May 2023, 3:46 pm
  • 53 minutes 52 seconds
    Ep. 25 Example #3: Ridicule
    In this episode of our new mini-series Examples, Ciara Eichhorst, the American Examples Fellow and a masters student in our department, discusses the topic of mesmerism, ridicule, and the corpse of an alleged mermaid with Dr. Joshua Urich. Dr. Urich received his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin and is a visiting assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. His chapter, “Truth is Never Ridiculous: Social Territory and the Cartography of Ridicule” will be published in the forthcoming third volume of American Examples. You can read more about American Examples at https://www.americanexamples.ua.edu.
    10 November 2022, 5:16 pm
  • 45 minutes 2 seconds
    Ep. 24 Academic Job Market pt.4
    This is the fourth and final episode of a four-part series, in which Erica Bennett and Jacob Barrett hear from Shannon Trosper Schorey, a recent PhD graduate in Religious Studies, on her experience in a job outside the academy, in the tech sector. Jacob and Erica then reflect on the series as a whole.
    6 September 2022, 6:06 pm
  • 32 minutes 2 seconds
    Ep. 23 Academic Job Market pt.3
    In episode three of a four-part series we discuss how many students leave their graduate programs before completion, partly due to concerns of job security or availability, Jacob Barrett and Erica Bennett listen to Jared Powell explain his decision to leave his PhD program in English and pursue a career path outside academia.
    6 September 2022, 6:04 pm
  • 34 minutes 49 seconds
    Ep. 22 Academic Job Market pt.2
    In episode two of a four-part series, Erica Bennett and Jacob Barrett continue their discussion on the job market after a graduate degree in the humanities. This episode they hear from tenured English Professor Pamela Gilbert on her experience within academia and advising students going into the academic job market.
    6 September 2022, 6:02 pm
  • 34 minutes 13 seconds
    Ep. 21 Academic Job Market pt.1
    In the first episode of this four part series, Erica Bennett and Jacob Barrett discuss the worries of starting a PhD program in the humanities with particular focus placed on the dismal state of the job market for many humanities PhD graduates. To further flesh out the state of the job market currently, Erica talks with Bradley Sommer, a recent PhD grad in History.
    6 September 2022, 5:59 pm
  • 51 minutes 6 seconds
    Ep. 20 Example #2: The Atomic Bomb
    In this episode of our new mini-series Examples, Ciara Eichhorst, the American Examples Fellow and a masters student in our department, discusses the topic of the atomic bomb and its relationship to the counterculture movement with Dr. Erik Kline. Dr. Kline is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and received his PhD in English from the University of Alabama. He has specialties in disability, trauma, addiction, and religious experience in American fiction. Erik’s chapter, “Seeing God, Reading a Trip: William Blake, Ram Dass, and Spiritual Awakening in 1960s Psychedelic Mysticism” will be published in the forthcoming second volume of American Examples. You can read more about American Examples at https://www.americanexamples.ua.edu.
    17 August 2022, 2:43 pm
  • 43 minutes 19 seconds
    Ep. 19 Example #1: Comedy
    In this episode of our new mini-series Examples, Ciara Eichhorst, the American Examples Fellow and a master’s student in our department, discusses the topic of comedy and its relationship with religious studies with Dr. Samah Choudhury. Dr. Choudhury is an assistant professor in the department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College in New York, with specialties in Islamic Studies, Humor and Comedy, Race, and Gender. You can find more information about her and her work in the first volume of American Examples at https://www.americanexamples.ua.edu. A transcript of the show is available at: religion.ua.edu/about-us/podcasts/ Study Religion is a production of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama and Examples is an American Examples production.
    20 July 2022, 6:24 pm
  • 39 minutes 15 seconds
    Ep. 18 Balcony Talks: Veiling on Tiktok
    In this episode Erica Bennett and Ciara Eichhorst, masters students in our department, discuss the recent social media trend of Veiling at Catholic Mass. Dr. Lauren Giffin, from our department, provides a analysis on religious trends, the histroy of veiling, and the intersection between religion and social media. A transcript of the show is available at: religion.ua.edu/about-us/podcasts/
    1 May 2022, 7:24 pm
  • 22 minutes 6 seconds
    Ep. 17 Uncivil Religion
    On this episode of Study Religion second year grad student, Erica Bennett, sits down with three first year grad students to discuss their roles and controbutions to the project Uncivil Religion. This project, spearheaded by Mike Altman in colaboration with Jerome Copulsky, and Peter Manseauo from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, documents the events that took place at the January 6th attack on the Capital. visit the project at: https://uncivilreligion.org/home/index
    2 March 2022, 5:11 pm
  • 18 minutes 40 seconds
    Teaching Philosophy of Religion Series Ep. 6 Gereon Kopf on the Multi-Entry Approach
    Can philosophy of religion enter the globalized, 21st-century world? If so, how might the field be taught? Dr. Nathan Loewen interviews four academics who participated in a grant project funded by the Wabash Center, "Teaching Philosophy of Religion Inclusively to Diverse Students": Jin Y. Park, Kevin Schilbrack, Eric Dickman, Louis Komjathy and Gereon Kopf. A transcript of this podcast may be found at https://globalcritical.as.ua.edu/media/teaching-philosophy-of-religion-series-ep-6-gereon-kopf-on-the-multi-entry-approach/
    31 January 2022, 5:33 pm
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