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| Paul Ricoeur on Freud's Psychology of Religion | 29 déc. 2024 | ||
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 Freud as masters of suspicion and how that should help us think about religion, ourselves, and our modern world.
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| Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Own, Deep Dive Part 2 | 07 oct. 2024 | ||
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 also has that problem with people too focused on thinking or capital T truth. As he says, a shout or a jump is as good at relieving anxiety as studying any book. We also look at the overlap in thought between Stirner and Foucault, Gabriel Marcel, Freud, and Girard. For example, both Stirner and Marcel think you should not ask what are humans? You should ask: who am I? And regarding connections between Girard and Stirner, we look at the human propensity to always create a sacred and always let our desires overtake us. We end the episode reflecting on what is sacred today? What do we let dominate us? And what is our scapegoat? 00:04:10 Stirner’s Critique of Philosophy and the Enlightenment 00:28:25 Connections between Stirner and Foucault, Marcel, Freud, and Girard. 01:30:45 Stirner’s Stoicism and our Contemporary World | |||
| Max Stirner's The Unique and its Own, Deep Dive Part 1 | 21 sept. 2024 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: Intro (00:00:34) Basic Overview of Stirner's Arguments (00:05:55) Stirner's Critique of Religion (00:38:20) Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Gabriel Marcel's The Mystery of Being, Deep Dive | 21 août 2024 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: Intro: 00:00:55 1 Marcel's Philosophical Framework: 00:06:45 2 Realworld Examples from Marcel: 00:47:25 | |||
| Rene Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Deep Dive | 24 avr. 2024 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: (00:01:20) Intro I. (00:06:05) Overview of Girard's theory and his interpretation of two bible myths II. (00:46:32) Satan as the representation of the mimetic cycle of desire III. (01:10:33) Demonology and Psychology, plus our modern fixation on victims Episode References: Technology, Communisim, and the Brown Scare - Mencius Moldbug Tyler Cowen Interview of Peter Thiel Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Rene Girard's The Scapegoat, Deep Dive | 08 mars 2024 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: Intro (00:01:05) Girard's General Theory and the story of Caiaphas (00:05:20) The Beheading of John the Baptist (00:34:05) Peter's Denial (01:02:03) Demons of Gerasa (01:18:09) The Supernatural Inspiration of the Bible (01:48:45) Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Deep Dive | 11 févr. 2024 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: Intro (00:00:55) I. Moses the Egyptian (00:05:24) II. Psychoanalyzing Human History (00:24:56) III. Why Freud Wrote about Moses (00:57:53) Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Book Brief | 26 janv. 2024 | ||
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Sections: Intro: 00:00:53 Freud's Method: 00:03:34 Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Rene Girard, Barbie, and Identity | 29 nov. 2023 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: intro (00:00:20) Girard and Identity (00:16:15) Jokes reveal the truth (00:31:30) The Daughter (00:46:50) Motherhood (00:54:20) Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Friedrich Nietzsche's The AntiChrist Deep Dive | 25 nov. 2023 | ||
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Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist | 16 nov. 2023 | ||
Topics Discussed: Sections: Nietzsche Jesus Christianity Morality Nihilism Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Deep Dive Part 3 | 09 nov. 2023 | ||
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Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Deep Dive Part 2 | 09 avr. 2023 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: General Remarks (00:00:54) Girard's General Reading of the Bible (00:07:30) Girard's Reading of Particular Bible Stories (00:18:40) What Jesus Said and Did (00:50:05) Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Deep Dive Part 1 | 22 mars 2023 | ||
Topics Discussed:
Sections: General Remarks, explaining the title of the book, and Jesus talking in parables (00:01:25) In-depth discussion of Girard’s core argument (00:19:30) Watching movies with Girard (00:49:00) Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Book Brief | 15 mars 2023 | ||
Topics Discussed: mimesis, anthropology, Christianity, Religion, scapegoat, the movie I am Legend Sections: General Remarks (00:00:51) Girard’s Fundamental Theory (00:03:10) The Priority of Religion for Girard (00:13:10) Episode References: Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Whitney Cross' The Burned-Over District, Deep Dive | 27 févr. 2023 | ||
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 (00:56:05) Topics Discussed:
Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Whitney Cross' The Burned-Over District Book Brief | 21 févr. 2023 | ||
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Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| George Kovacs' The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology, Deep Dive | 30 janv. 2023 | ||
Sections: Intro (00:00:22) Cause-god (00:14:40) Godless age and Technology (00:28:06) New Possibility (00:37:56) Topics Discussed:
Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| George Kovacs' The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology Book Brief | 11 janv. 2023 | ||
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Episode References: Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, Deep Dive Part 2 | 01 janv. 2023 | ||
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 (01:02:10) Topics Discussed:
Twitter Page: TheReligiousStudiesPodcast (@therspod) / Twitter Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, Deep Dive Part 1 | 01 janv. 2023 | ||
Sections: Intro (00:00:38) The Context of Secularity (00:17:40) Deserts vs the Ordered Society (00:23:36) Utopia and the New Social Code (00:35:15) Monks and Microsoft Excel (01:02:25) Individualism (01:15:46) Closing (01:30:35) Topics Discussed:
Twitter Page Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| Charles Taylor's A Secular Age Book Brief | 01 janv. 2023 | ||
Sections Introduction (00:00:45) How we Ended Up in This Secular Age (00:02:25) The Anthropomorphic Shift (00:06:05) Topics Discussed:
Episode References: A Secular Age Twitter Page Email: thereligiousstudiespodcast@gmail.com Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||
| The Religious Studies Podcast Intro Episode | 31 déc. 2022 | ||
Sections: Explanation of Michael Clayton Clip and Introduction (00:01:35) The Data and Contemporary Atheism (00:09:15) An Awareness of What is Missing (00:12:55) Michael Clayton Movie An Awareness of What is Missing Music by The IMG, accessed 12/22 at https://archive.org/details/Kaleidoscope_1819-19494 | |||