ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
This podcast highlights the ongoing salience of the academic Study of Religion for understanding our every day world. Each episode examines one text of ‘smut’ to explore a major concept or theory in religious studies. This series is aimed for an educated public, with the intention of acting as a companion to undergraduate courses examining the intersection of religion, sex, sexuality, gender, bodies, and the erotic.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
28 minutes
Video podcast
English
New Zealand
5 episodes
since Aug. 14, 2026
episodic
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We talk with criminologist and 'sexademic' Dr. Samantha Keene on some of the ethical conundrums that arise with consuming erotic material, particularly gender-based harm.
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In this episode, Michael and Michaela go to XO Books, the newest romance bookstore in Pōneke (Wellington), for an interview with bookseller Juliet Gengenbach. We discuss the transformative power of romance books, the misogyny that sidelines romance as a genre, and the close links between materialit…
On Lived Religion:
Nancy Ammerman, “Lived Religion as an Emerging Field,” Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 29, no. 2 (2022) https://www.tf.uio.no/forskning/forskergrupper/levd-religion/arrangementer/2022/ammerman-2016.pdf.
On prototype theory:
Kevin Schilbrack, "The Concept of Religion," Th…
This podcast discusses A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR), using the text as a case study for exploring how scholars of religion approach pop culture artifacts.
Further Reading:
Francis Stewart, “Editorial: Sharing a Research Approach within the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture,” Journal …
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