Covers 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-13; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-07-06 – 2026-07-13.

Top papers

• Breadth and Depth, Perfectionism and Paradox: Reading Black Politics by a Darkened Light
• Conspirituality: Predicting COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Using, Spirituality, Purity, and Political Orientation
• “Sacré Mormont”: Disciplinary constellations and rhetorical contestations around nature in the context of accelerated urbanization
• A Symposium on Melvin Rogers’s The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
• Catholic Racial Democracy: Social Imaginaries and Anti-Protestantism in Interwar Brazil

Themes: Catholic Church, Religious Education, secularism, COVID-19, political orientation, religion, social justice, family dynamics

Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, quantitative, critical discourse analysis, theoretical analysis

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including independent.co.uk — Trump commission calls for building bridges between church and state, europeantimes.news — FoRB Policy Europe: Why It Matters Now - news, and ground.news — Faith Under Censorship! Morena's Member of Parliament Would ...

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.

Covers 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-06; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-06-29 – 2026-07-06.

Top papers

• Polarization and Political Violence: When Polarization Turns Violent
• The role of partisan news and political parasocial relationships in shaping meta‐perceptions: Cross‐national evidence
• Is God Still Rusyn? Religious and Ethnic Context of Rusyn Identity in the Chomutov Region
• Arbejderbevægelsens syn på kristendommen ca. 1870-1920
• Selective Secularism and the Governance of Religious Diversity in German Case Law: A Case-Illustrative Socio-Legal Analysis

Themes: religion, political theology, ethics, political communication, digital media, Christianity, democracy, social media

Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, content analysis, mixed-methods

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including cambridge.org — The Effects of Religious Messages and Endorsements on Political ..., cambridge.org — Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity ..., and ground.news — Faith Under Censorship! Morena's Member of Parliament Would ...

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.

Covers 2026-06-22 to 2026-06-29; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-06-22 – 2026-06-29.

Top papers

• Trauma, Memory, and Spiritual Care: Pastoral Psychological Perspectives on Collective Healing
• Toxic Resentment and Far-Right Politics: A Critical Theory from a Brazilian Perspective
• Bridging religious difference in an Autonomous Region: cultural mediators and the promise of transcultural capital
• Politically Salient Events May Modulate Effects of Naturalistic Psychedelic Use on Support for Partisan Violence
• Contesting Horizons of Meaning in Global Modernity

Themes: religion, religious moderation, pluralism, identity, human rights, multiculturalism, Muslim women, Theology

Methods: qualitative, case-study, interviews, survey, observation, Critical Discourse Analysis

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including christiandaily.com — More Americans say religion is gaining influence, but most want churches out of politics, survey finds, ground.news — Faith Under Censorship! Morena's Member of Parliament Would ..., and amnesty.org — China: Detention of church leaders signals intensifying attacks on religious freedom.

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.

Covers 2026-06-15 to 2026-06-22; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-06-15 – 2026-06-22.

Top papers

• The Gospel of Meritocracy: Christian Nationalism, Economic Position, and Americans’ Beliefs About Getting Ahead in Life
• The role of Brueggemann’s ‘prophetic imagination’ in neo-prophetism and South African politics
• Negotiating Faith and Capital in Islamic Popular Fiction: Three Narrative Strategies of Indonesian Muslim Writers
• Defining Neutrality, Combating Polarization: Laycock’s Essential Contributions
• Language Ideological Hierarchisation in Madrasa in Pakistan

Themes: religion, secularism, Buddhism, identity, social justice, Confucianism, disinformation, citizenship

Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, library research, historical analysis, literature review

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including youtube.com — Religious leaders raise alarm over growing politicization of churches ahead of the 2027 elections, amnesty.org — China: Detention of church leaders signals intensifying attacks on ..., and christianitydaily.com — World News | Cartels Fuel Religious Freedom Violations in Mexico.

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.

Covers 2026-06-08 to 2026-06-15; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-06-08 – 2026-06-15.

Top papers

• Treason and dissimulation in the Henrician Reformation: Leonard Grey and the polarisation of politics in the Irish Pale, 1534–40
• Religion and State in a Time of Crisis
• Ambedkar’s Renunciation and Re-imagining of Religion: Tracing the Horizon of Religiosity Among the Contemporary Dalit ‘Public’
• Religion in Canada during COVID-19
• RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF CENTRAL ASIA IN THE 6TH–7TH CENTURIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SOCIO-POLITICAL LIFE

Themes: identity, COVID-19, Poland, Buddhism, Catholicism, political participation, cultural conflict, secularization

Methods: qualitative, case-study, historical analysis, library research, survey, quantitative

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including ewtnnews.com — European Court of Human Rights rules governments cannot ban ..., arise.tv — Presidency Raises Alarm Over Religion-Based Political ..., and religionunplugged.com — Prominent Church In East China Demolished Amid Escalating ...

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.

Covers 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-08; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-06-01 – 2026-06-08.

Top papers

• Why Heresy Matters: Contesting the Legacy of Nicaea
• Old boys, church mates, childhood friends: How social relations form and sustain the multi-ethnic political elite in Africa
• Staying in Conversation: Review of Research on the Science Views of Evangelicals and Effective Ways to Respond
• “Legal Personality” and the Governance of Religion under the Republic of Vietnam (1955-1975): A Legal-Historical Analysis
• Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry: Thinking as Pilgrimage

Themes: democracy, religion, Christianity, theology, pluralism, Nigeria, Islamic political thought, social ethics

Methods: qualitative, literature review, case-study, survey, library research, textual criticism

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including christiandaily.com — 'Sacrilege law' in Punjab, India further threatens Christians, licas.news — Church intimidation in Yogyakarta revives concerns over Indonesia's ..., and hudson.org — A Look into the Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyah's Ideological Shift.

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.

Covers 2026-05-25 to 2026-06-01; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers.

Where pulpits, courts, parties, and movements collide, this show follows the research behind the headlines on faith, power, identity, and democracy.

Episode covers 2026-05-25 – 2026-06-01.

Top papers

• Britain and the Soviet War on Religion: Labour Government, Christian Protest and the Churches, 1929–1931
• ‘All we are concerned with is saving the country’
• Staying in Conversation: Review of Research on the Science Views of Evangelicals and Effective Ways to Respond
• How Islamic Thought Shapes Socio-Political Dynamics: Navigating Ethical Leadership, Community Development, and Contemporary Challenges in Northern Nigeria
• Gender Non‐Conformity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Communities Across Times and Theoretical Frameworks

Themes: democracy, Indonesia, governance, theology, political psychology, religion, religious moderation, Islam

Methods: qualitative, case-study, literature review, historical analysis, textual analysis, comparative analysis

Premium News

Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including prri.org — How Americans' Views of the Term Christian Nationalism Are Shaped, texastribune.org — Trump administration sues to seize church land near El Paso, and religionnews.com — Catholic diocese fights Trump administration plan to seize ...

Upgrade to Premium

The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast.

Generated by paperboy.fm.