World Religions and Global Issues (RELS 332) - Week 2 Class Lecture

This week's show continues our focus from last episode on religion and violence, delving into a more systematic look at religion and cultures of terror. After thinking about some of the broad connections between religion and violence, we'll take a closer look at three cases of religious violence and terror from within Christian, Jewish, and Hindu religious circles. We'll consider how divinely-sanctioned religion drives many of these actors, as well as the exclusive claims to religious identity that undergird the religious worldviews of the militant religious activists. As we'll discuss, it is increasingly difficult to disentangle the impacts of globalization from new forms of religious violence that take aim at secular states and politics.   

I'm producing these episodes in parallel with a course I'm teaching at California State University, Chico. Each week I explore a different topic related to the end of the world, from doomsday preppers and our deepest fears to the role of religion, media, and politics in thinking about the end of the world.

Audio samples:

Intro Music: "Chill Till I'm Killed" by septahelix. 2021. CC-BY-NC (3.0). 

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/septahelix/63365 Ft: speck, softmartin, SkyeJordan, MalreDeszik, Apoxode, 7OOP3D

Outro Music: "Unify" by Snowflake. 2019. CC-BY (3.0). 

http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/59709 Ft: Apoxode

For additional show notes and materials references in this episode be sure to visit my End of the World page:

https://www.chriscrews.com/end-of-the-world-podcast/

Thanks for listening.

Dr. Crews