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19.5: The Prosperity Gospel
Season 19 Episode 5
From the New Thought Movement of the 1880s to Charles Fillmore’s Depression-Era preaching to Joel Osteen’s megachurch, the notion that spiritual effo…
3 years, 4 months ago
19.4: Live Action Religious Roleplaying (Interview Special)
Season 19 Episode 4
Anna Milon joins us to discuss her ethnographic research into the way religions are imported, created, and developed within Live Action Roleplaying. …
3 years, 4 months ago
19.3: A Christian Theocracy (Part Two)
Season 19 Episode 3
Theonomy, Dominionism, and Calvinist Reconstructionism are all different names for the same idea: that the world would be better off it it operated a…
3 years, 4 months ago
19.2: Haunting a Harvest Horror (A Mystery Magic Theatre Special)
Season 18 Episode 2
A mad scientist plots, fanatics roam and rant, monsters loom. This Halloween, the Alchemical Actors joined Rob’s college students to create a unique …
3 years, 5 months ago
19.1: A Christian Theocracy (Part One)
Season 19 Episode 1
Recent United States Supreme Court decisions on the questions of abortion rights and prayer in public school have suggested to many observers that th…
3 years, 5 months ago
18.7: Klan Christianity
Season 18 Episode 7
America’s white supremacist Christian Identity churches preach the abhorrent doctrine that non-white races are the descendants of Cain, birthed throu…
3 years, 5 months ago
18.6: Neo-Nazi Occultism
Season 18 Episode 5
Savitri Devi, a French-born Greek citizen, took on an Indian name and envisioned the second coming of Adolf Hitler. The Chilean occultist Miguel Serr…
3 years, 6 months ago
18.5: Malcolm X
Season 18 Episode 5
Malcolm X was tracked by the FBI since before he converted to Islam. Even after he died his viewing and funeral were both visited with bomb threats. …
3 years, 6 months ago
18.4: Houdini's Ghost (interview Special)
Season 18 Episode 4
Rob and Luke are joined by Judas and Magnolia, husband and wife magicians with a research interest in Harry Houdini. Following the death of his mothe…
3 years, 7 months ago
18.3: Falun Gong
Season 18 Episode 3
On April 25, 1999 between ten and sixteen thousand Falun Gong believers, clutching the little blue book of Li Hongzing, gathered outside the Chinese …
3 years, 7 months ago