EV - 237 Defining "religion" with Chris Kavanagh

My returning guest this week is Chris Kavanagh (@C_Kavanagh), a cultural anthropologist and co-host of the Decoding the Gurus pod. We discuss competing accounts of how to define "religion" and their implications for church and state conflicts. Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ Chris's article about defining religion: https://aeon.co/essays/can-religion-be-based-on-ritual-practice-without-belief Convocation: Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog Music by GW Rodriguez Sibling Pods: Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.html Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid If you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps! Recent appearances: I was on Ben Burgis's youtube channel debating free will and moral luck: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1516786030854262788?s=20&t=q3yiNlMdkxoDCu1yHCig-w Here's the What's left of Phil link for the other chat on this subject: https://twitter.com/leftofphil/status/1511305894587682821?s=20&t=eH18eR9d-Axezy_x5A23dg Upcoming appearances: Stay tuned, got a few invites this past weekend so hopefully will have some info here soon! Next week: Tracking right wing cultural collapse narratives with Martin Rooke

Om Podcasten

Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever enough to do anything about it. The void seems terrible and cruel, but it loves you, in its own ironic way.