Broadcast Seeding

Dr. Susan Asbury (Middle Georgia State University) discusses her latest book, Family Game Night: Board Games from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, published with the University Press of Kentucky.

Broadcast Seeding is the podcast home for Off-Script: Conversations on Scriptures, Scholarship, and Our Subfield. Dr. David Dault (Loyola University Chicago) shares about his book, The Accessorized Bible (Oxford Unviversity Press).

Mormon polygamy is one of the most popularly intriguing aspects of American Religious History. Dr. Hannah Jung (University of Alabama) helps us understand that law and politics of interpretation around the practice in a presentation called, “The Law of the Land”: The Hermeneutics of Continued Mormon Polygamy after 1890.” Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation where she shared this work.

Dr. Richard Newton (University of Alabama) share the story behind his latedst project, Decoding Diaspora, an online humanities dataset that puts social theory and computational tools to work. Newton calls this approach to cultural analytics "data signification." And in this presentation, he discusses what it begins to tell him about a mysterious family scrapbook.

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Casey A'hearn (Doctoral Student, Department of Religion, Princeton University) brings to us a presentation called “What Does It Mean to be Mormon and American?

Scripturalizing John J. Stewart’s Pamphlets Program.” A'hearn shares with us an fascinating intriguing example of scripturalization as example of the layering of modern discourses including race, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship in the modern world.

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Seth Perry (Princeton University) brings to us a presentation called “What Does It Look Like When God Cites Himself: The Revelations of Latter Day Saints Prophet John Taylor.” Perry presents a fascinating case study on texts as mechanisms of critique, community formation, and political ascendancy.

Dr. Jennifer Barry (Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of Mary Washington) discusses her latest book, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity:

Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination (University of California Press, 2025).

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Rachel Schwaller (University of Kansas) brings to us a presentation called “(Un)scripted (Un)settlement: Mapping the Language of Homeless Encampment in Lawrence, Kansas.” Schwaller blends archival work, ethnography, and GIS in a mapping of settlement and land ownership. She compellingly demonstrates that two-centuries plus of this discourse in Kansas suggests that settlement is a classification of human constitution and geographic place.

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Bradford Anderson (Dublin City University) brings to us a presentation called "The Bible Beyond Reading: The Iconic, Contested, and Mediated Bible in Ireland” Homrighausen helps us explore the ways and reasons behind the intriguing scripturalization of Anderson takes a grounded theory approach to help us understand how the mediation of the Bible becomes and defines scriptural practices in modern Ireland.

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Joanna Homrighausen (Colelge of William & Mary) shares with us a presentation called “Unrolling the Megillah: The Esther Scroll as Jewish Scripture, Artifact, and Liturgical Prop.” Homrighausen helps us explore the ways and reasons behind the intriguing scripturalization of the iconic Esther Scroll.