Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a "thread" on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Millennials and avocado toast. It's all here.
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089 THE MITHRADITES (news roundup: weird Army video; Mithradites of Fond du Lac; AI goes sentient)
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2022-06-22
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088 THE NRSVUE (we review a new Bible translation to fight about)
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2022-06-08
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087 THE HOARD (News Roundup--Brian offers a stunning confession)
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2022-05-25
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086 THE AIGOD (bringing an imaginary friend to life through AI, and playing God)
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2022-05-11
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085 THE DEMONTIME (Kathryn Krick, your local TikTok exorcist in the park; guest Sam Kestenbaum)
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2022-04-27
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084 THE BSG (Battlestar Galactica and the politics of polytheism)
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2022-04-13
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083 THE SLAP (Denzel advises Will; QAnon growing; world’s most boring person; animal heads)
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2022-03-30
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082 THE WARGOD (a hair-raising biblical story of war, prompted by Wonder Woman)
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2022-03-16
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081 THE WILEYMAN (Late Great Planet Earth, Russian religions, Vladimir Putin's spiritual space)
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2022-03-02
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080 THE VOID (News Roundup: God is dope and heckling the pope)
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2022-02-16
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079 THE MALLPUNK (Blink-182 and UFOs)
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2022-02-02
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Programming Note for a New Season (2022)
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2022-01-24
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CHRISTMAS NEWS ROUNDUP SPECIAL (Jesus applies for job; feeble green children; $600K in the bathroom; Cheesecake factory)
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2021-12-21
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BONUS: Ambush Session on Megachurch Pastor Comparing Jesus to "Old Town Road"
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2021-12-07
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BONUS: Checking in on Battlestar, Lost, Leo as Jim Jones, QAnon is back
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2021-11-16
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BONUS: Popeye joke, theory of humor
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2021-10-06
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BONUS: Season in Review, Thank Yous, Mini News Roundup
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2021-09-29
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078 THE CHRISTIANHAIRMETAL (Chris White, director of the new film Electric Jesus)
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2021-09-14
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077 THE FACECHURCH (Should anyone be going to church on Facebook?)
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2021-09-07
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076 THE NEWS (#6: genocide romance, too cold for jihad, confessions without confessor)
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2021-08-31
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