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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120 THE DECHURCHING (the stunning story of why people have left church)
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2023-12-06
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119 THE FIRSTSTONE (news roundup: Bible quoting courtroom antics and living forever)
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2023-11-29
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118 THE COTTON (academic conference attire, Cotton Mather, and the Bible in America)
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2023-11-15
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117 THE BOOKS (live episode! books that have changed our lives)
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2023-11-09
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116 THE MH370 (this year's weirdest airplane-UFO conspiracy so far)
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2023-11-01
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115 THE SCARIES (movies we’re watching and NOT WATCHING this Halloween)
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2023-10-25
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114 THE AYNRAND (what is it like to grow up in an Objectivist household?)
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2023-08-30
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085 THE DEMONTIME (Kathryn Krick, your local exorcist in the park; guest Sam Kestenbaum) [April 2022]
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2023-08-23
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038 THE TRUTH (Ancient Aliens, the History Channel, and all of the possibilities) [September 2019]
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2023-08-16
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113 THE X (why are the clothes on floor and Real Talk Kim)
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2023-08-09
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033 THE NOSTALGIA (Stranger Things, Cold War, child abductions) [AUGUST 2019]
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2023-08-02
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PLEASANT SUMMER INTERLUDE (everything is permissible, a note on episode rhythm, and mustache musings)
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2023-07-26
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112 THE GOLD (news roundup: miracle gold dust, huge UFOs, Aspen woo, Seven Mountains theology)
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2023-07-19
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081 THE WILEYMAN (The Late Great Planet Earth and Vladimir Putin's spirituality) [March 2022]
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2023-07-12
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111 THE PARENTS (what does sociology tell us about whether kids carry on with the faith of parents?)
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2023-07-05
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110 THE ENNEAGRAM (we confront the personality mob and take a Bible character Enneagram test)
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2023-06-21
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109 THE EXPERIENCERS (shocking developments in the UFO community)
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2023-06-07
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108 THE SÉANCE (News Roundup: bringing back the dead; Rainn Wilson is Bahai; Pope's exorcist)
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2023-05-31
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034 THE CONGREGATION (Ultra Star Wars Fandom and Authorial Intent) [August 2019]
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2023-05-24
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107 THE LANADELREY (an annotated commentary on the track "Judah Smith Interlude")
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2023-05-17
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