Category: CESNUR13

Squeezing into Uncomfortable Spaces: Scholarly Objectivity and Strong Opinions.

No video, but some of the things I said at CESNUR13 Conference..

New Religious Movements and Children

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…

Robert Wallis on Paganism and Burial Sites

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…

Kalmykia and Post-Soviet Religion

“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…

From Goddess to Cyborg..

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…

Hymns and Jehovah’s Witnesses

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…

Spiritual Tourism

I interview Dr Alex Norman from the University of Sydney about his work on Spiritual Tourism. Another interview from CESNUR 2013..

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Self Designation: Spiritual? Religious? Neo-Religious? Åndelig?

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……

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Satanism: Misconceptions and General Background

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,…