On Lived Religion:
Nancy Ammerman, “Lived Religion as an Emerging Field,” Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 29, no. 2 (2022) https://www.tf.uio.no/forskning/forskergrupper/levd-religion/arrangementer/2022/ammerman-2016.pdf.
On prototype theory:
Kevin Schilbrack, "The Concept of Religion," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2022/entries/concept-religion.
On stigma of romance novels: Elizabeth Reid Boyd, “To the mattresses: a defence of romance fiction,” The Conversation, February 14, 2017, https://theconversation.com/to-the-mattresses-a-defence-of-romance-fiction-72587.
Molly Tullis, “The Power of Smut,” Freewriting Blog, Sept 28, 2024. https://getfreewrite.com/blogs/writing-success/the-power-of-smut-peeking-inside-the-internet-s-favorite-genre.
Discussion Questions:
How would you define smut? Think about your definition. What is excluded from your definition? Is there anything included that others might not include?
On the pod, we talked about the politics of definitions and categories. What writing counts as ‘high brow’ versus ‘low brow’? Who decides these things? What is the result of these social categorisations?
We made the case that definitions actually tell us more about ourselves and society than they do about the definition itself. What do you think of when you think of ‘religion’? What does that tell you about your social position?
