28 June 2013
Sanja Nilsson from Sweden talks about NRMs and Children: A short interview about work she is doing as part of her PhD (at Gothenburg and Dalarna Universities) – I hope to interview her again once it is complete.. You…
25 June 2013
For RPE 305 Philosophy and Literature we will be starting off by looking at Albert Camus’ novel The Plague. For your ‘summer reading’, then, you should at the very least read this novel – and more than once…
23 June 2013
Alternative Archaelogy, Has It Happened?: Paganism and Archaeology in Twenty-first Century in Britain Robert WALLIS (Richmond University, London) We only just get started chatting before we are cut off by catering staff arriving – but we start on…
23 June 2013
“New Cosmic Religion” and the Ancient Cult of the White Old Man Interpreted Anew: Communities of Ritual Healers in Post-Soviet Kalmykia Valeriya GAZIZOVA (University of Oslo) In this short video Valeriya talks about just one of the many…
23 June 2013
I ask Venetia Robertson about her work, and we end up talking about Pagans and transhumanism: Venetia is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney. Recorded at CESNUR 2013 in Falun. At http://sydney.academia.edu/VenetiaRobertson you can see some of…
23 June 2013
The Watch Tower’s Changing Hymnody: How Music Reflects Change among Jehovah’s Witnesses George D. CHRYSSIDES (University of Birmingham) I ask Dr Chryssides about his paper, and we talk about how a seemingly small detail reveals so much about…
23 June 2013
I interview Dr Alex Norman from the University of Sydney about his work on Spiritual Tourism. Another interview from CESNUR 2013..
23 June 2013
New Age, Spiritual or Religious? Self-designations within the New Age Movement Knut MELVAER – Margrethe LØØV (University of Bergen) In this short video I ask Knut & Margrethe about their work on the terms Spiritual, Religious and others……
23 June 2013
I chat to Graduate Student Cimminnee Holt at CESNUR13 conference about Satanism: What are the most common misconceptions about Satanism? For more Article: Cimminnee Holt, “Death and Dying in the Satanic Worldview” http://artsciweb.concordia.ca/ojs/index.php/jrc/article/view/34/11 Per Faxneld and Jesper Aagard Petersen,…
21 June 2013
For those of you who will be taking the module RPE307 Close Philosophical Reading, we will be looking at Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. The plan is to have a close reading of one section each week…