RB025 Getting Started Season 2 Religion Race Coloniality s2e1
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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 presented at the University of Stirling in autumn 2018
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RB024 Does Religious Studies have a problem with race?
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RB023 Religion and popular culture
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What are we looking for when we look at ‘religion and popular culture’? In this episode I explore the ways in which religion in books, film, and dramas is a way that authors and readers engage with ideas of specific religions. This can be broadly understood through the concept of 'religionization'.
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HIP015 Cleverman Indigenous superhero fighting white supremacy
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How should Australia try to understood its unsavoury history? In this episode, I discuss a recent TV drama series called Cleverman about an Indigenous superhero who finds himself fighting a securitised white establishment. So what does Cleverman tell us about the dynamics of race, history, and Indigeneity in contemporary Australia?
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RB022 Decolonisation of Religious Studies
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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 and social sciences, they all lead back to colonialism, and in particular the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And so, during a time when there is a widespread movement for the decolonisation of knowledge, is there a need for a decolonisation of the study of religion? And if so, then what does it involve? These are some initial thoughts on this major issue.
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RB021 Studying religion without studying religion
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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 conflicts that can be found in particular discourses that get labelled and thought about as ‘religion’. I study the idea of religion.
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HIP014 Counterblaste to Tobacco by King James
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In this podcast I do something a little different, reading the text of King James I & VI's short 1604 tract called A Counterblaste to Tobacco
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HIP013 King James and tobacco
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In 1604, King James I of England wrote a short tract against the smoking of tobacco, which had recently arrived in the country from America. This episode is a short exploration of the significance of this book.
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RB020 Religion and race
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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?
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RB019 Burkini ban and intersectionality
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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, they also involve gender, sexuality, race, power, and history.
info_outlineIn the last five episodes I have covered some introductory issues about three of the major themes of the History’s Ink podcast. That is on European encounters in episode 2, on the Protestant reformations in 3 and 4, and on the development of the idea of Europe (vis a vis Islam and the Muslim world) in episodes 5 & 6.
Going hand in hand with all this is the development of that aspect of European society — particularly in the rise of colonialism — that was slavery.
That is, the kidnapping of people (mostly from Africa), their forced transportation across the Atlantic Ocean, their ‘sale’ as property, followed by their enforced lifetime of enslaved labour.
In short, an economic and political system that was based on the fundamental idea that people could be treated almost entirely as property, and the inevitable violence that was required to enforce this. It was a system that began very early in the westward expansion of Europe, and which largely fuelled the economic development of European settlement in the new colonies, from the sixteenth century onward.
Indeed, it was largely hard wired into the formation of the independent US and which helped to power the economic development of the new nation.