Guest lecture chat with Prof. Ali Olomi, reigning king of Wednesdays, the smart+fun twitter thread, and host of the Head On History Podcast.

Keyword: jinn (duh)

Homework: Routledge Companion to the Qur'an, eds. George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, and Daniel A. Madigan (forthcoming Sept. 2021)

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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We (mostly Ilyse) show you why there’s way more to know about Islam and Muslims than the life of the Prophet or the latest travel ban.

Keywords: Qur'an, exegesis, hadith, sunnah, shariah

Storytime: from Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam? 

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Neither of us are professionally or confessionally equipped to answer this question, so we’re bringing in Prof. Shaily Patel, Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech and baller scholar of magic & religion.

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Can you believe it's been a full freaking year of this mess? Ilyse and Megan do a quick round-up of how religious communities are responding to global crisis AND are re-joined by a very special guest.

Homework: still no, because still having a freaking pandemic. But maybe check out Love Island UK if you need a trashy distraction.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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In which we (mostly Megan) walk you through three things you maybe don't know about early Christianity:

1. Christianity was kind of a mistake
2. The New Testament is a messy bitch
3. Christianity = imperialism

Keywords: BCE/CE, gospels, apocrypha, canon, epistles

Storytime: Becket, Waiting for Godot 

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Guest lecture chat with Prof. Anthea Butler, possibly the public face of why you need to care about religion in the US? Most recently the author of White Evangelical Racism (UNC 2021).

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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In which we (mostly Megan) quickly survey the long and sordid history of white supremacy, American politics, and evangelicalism in what’s now the US.

Keywords: racism, white supremacy, evangelicalism

Storytime: Baldwin, from "Letter from a Region in My Mind"

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Guest lecture chat with Prof. Simran Jeet Singh, author of oh so many things, but most recently Fauja Singh Keeps Going, which both NPR and the New York Public Library listed as a top 2020 title.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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In which we talk about why it's important for minoritized scholars to share what they know with the public, why it can be daunting and exhausting and dangerous to do so, and why we're so excited for writer/teacher/scholar/activist Dr. Simran Jeet Singh to join us next time.

Storytime: Sucharov, Public Influence

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In which Ilyse and Megan provide a quick refresher on what we covered in seasons 1& 2 and set up the new format for season 3: intros to public scholarship, white evangelical racism in what's now the US, why early Christianity is way more complicated (and interesting!) than you might know, and why the study of Islam can, should, and does include djinns, magic, and astrology.

Storytime: Mary Hunt's WATERtalk, where she once again teaches us that "together, we are a genius."

Homework: check out the rad work of our season 3 guests & go follow them on twitter -- you won't be sorry. 

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more!

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