The Religious Studies Podcast

Paul Ricoeur on Freud's Psychology of Religion

In this episode we discuss a few sections in Ricoeur's collection of essays titled "The Conflict of Interpretation". We discuss why Ricoeur sees Marx, Nietzsche, and Fre

Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Own, Deep Dive Part 2

We begin this episode going over Stirner’s critique of philosophers and the Enlightenment. It’s important to keep in mind that whatever problem he has with religion, he a

Max Stirner's The Unique and its Own, Deep Dive Part 1

Topics Discussed: The relationship between particulars and universals Demon posession and god possession The religious discontent with the present The Sacred and when id

Gabriel Marcel's The Mystery of Being, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed: Gabriel Marcel Martin Heidegger Phenomenology Psychology Sections: Intro: 00:00:55 1 Marcel's Philosophical Framework: 00:06:45 2 Realworld Examples f

Rene Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed: Jesus Satan Philosophy Peter Thiel Curtis Yarvin Psychology Desire Sections: (00:01:20) Intro I. (00:06:05) Overview of Girard's theory and his interp

Rene Girard's The Scapegoat, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed: The Bible John the Baptist Rene Girard Freud Psychology Sections: Intro (00:01:05) Girard's General Theory and the story of Caiaphas (00:05:20) The Be

Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Deep Dive

Topics Discussed: God Psychoanalysis Moses Judaism Religion Freud Atheism Darwin Sections: Intro (00:00:55) I. Moses the Egyptian (00:05:24) II. Psychoanalyzing Human H

Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Book Brief

Topics Discussed: Psychoanalysis Freud Girard Moses Judaism Sections: Intro: 00:00:53 Freud's Method: 00:03:34 Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / T

Rene Girard, Barbie, and Identity

Topics Discussed: Barbie movie Identity Girard Feminism Sections: intro (00:00:20) Girard and Identity (00:16:15) Jokes reveal the truth (00:31:30) The Daughter (00:46:

Friedrich Nietzsche's The AntiChrist Deep Dive

Topics Discussed: Nietzsche Jesus Atheism Christianity Sections: Intro (00:04:33) Nietzsche's Philosophy and Christianity (00:10:37) Jesus (00:37:15) Power and Christi

Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist

Topics Discussed: Sections: Nietzsche Jesus Christianity Morality Nihilism Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodc

Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Deep Dive Part 3

Topics Discussed: Sexual identity Jesus Desire Holocausts Sections: General Remarks (00:00:54) The State of Desire Today (00:07:40) Society Today and in the Future (00

Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Deep Dive Part 2

Topics Discussed: Jesus Identity Moral Judgment Sections: General Remarks (00:00:54) Girard's General Reading of the Bible (00:07:30) Girard's Reading of Particular Bib

Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Deep Dive Part 1

Topics Discussed: Religion Violence Jesus The Matrix Eyes Wide Shut The Great Gatsby Sections: General Remarks, explaining the title of the book, and Jesus talking in p

Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Book Brief

Topics Discussed: mimesis, anthropology, Christianity, Religion, scapegoat, the movie I am Legend Sections: General Remarks (00:00:51) Girard’s Fundamental Theory (00:03

Whitney Cross' The Burned-Over District, Deep Dive

Sections: --- General Remarks (00:00:51) --- The Context of the Burned-Over District (00:08:57) --- New Measures (00:27:17) --- Apocalypticism and Heaven on Earth (00:56:

Whitney Cross' The Burned-Over District Book Brief

Sections: Secular or Sacred Causes of the Burned-Over District (00:07:02) Orthodoxy and the many Sects of the Burned-Over District (00:10:20) Topics Discussed: Second

George Kovacs' The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology, Deep Dive

Sections: Intro (00:00:22) Cause-god (00:14:40) Godless age and Technology (00:28:06) New Possibility (00:37:56) Topics Discussed: Philosophy God Christianity Heidegger

George Kovacs' The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology Book Brief

Sections: Heidegger, Western Metaphysics and his phenomenology (00:02:54) Beyond A/theism (00:09:15) The Notion of God (00:11:10) Topics Discussed: God Heidegger Pheno

Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, Deep Dive Part 2

Sections: Intro (00:00:54) Morality and The Modern Therapeutic Authority (00:01:35) Meaning and Our Conception of Time (00:23:45) Religion Today and a Path Forward (01:02