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Narrative & Reflexivity: A Roundtable

ChesterFollowing hot on the heels of the interview with Dr Alana Vincent which we pointed you towards yesterday, the folks at The Religious Studies Project have posted the video of a roundtable discussion which also took place the day that we hosted them here at Chester.

The subject of the discussion was Narrative and Reflexivity in the Study of Religion, and Christopher R. Cotter (chair) and Ethan Gjerset Quillen from TRSP were joined by Continue reading


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Religion & Literature: An Interview (Alana Vincent)

DSCF0481A few weeks ago the splendid people behind the excellent web-resource that is The Religious Studies Project visited us here at Chester and recorded a live interview with Dr Alana Vincent.

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Post-seminar discussion (Alana Vincent)

StorifyThe above Twitter exchange, between Ben Fulford and me, was prompted by the questions at the end of a Chester PG research seminar paper delivered a few weeks ago by one of our research students, Jason Boyd. Jason’s paper was arguing for treating sermons as a dialogic space, and moving away from the model in which the preacher delivers the word from on high and Continue reading