Covers 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-07; 5 free papers from 14 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 2026-08-31 – 2026-09-07.

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• Whose Sincerely Held Beliefs Count? Political Ideology Shapes Perceptions of Religious Exemption Requests.
• Faith, Flags, and Fragile States: A Philosophical, Economic, and Political Analysis of Religion and Nationalism in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
• Religious Belief and Science: A Reference Handbook
• Putin’s Totalitarian Dreams
• Periodicals of the Russian Diaspora as an Institution of Transnational Civil Society in the 1920s–1940s

Themes: religious exemptions, political ideology, sincerely held beliefs, biases, social judgments, religion, nationalism, Africa

Methods: qualitative, historical analysis, survey, experimental, philosophical analysis, comparative analysis

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Covers 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-31; 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 2026-08-24 – 2026-08-31.

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• Smartphones and Polarization: Cross-Country Evidence
• Islamic Business Ethics, Muslim Feminism, and the Rhetorical Construction of Entrepreneurial Legitimacy: Evidence from Emirati Women
• Revisiting Racialized Religious Contexts and Perceptions of White Discrimination and Privilege
• Reimagining public understanding: Toward an institutional model.
• Beyond Wildlife Values: Social and Ecological Dominance as Ideological Foundations of Wildlife Value Orientations

Themes: Nigeria, Indonesia, religion, social media, democracy, Africa, affective polarization, peacebuilding

Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, philosophical analysis, quantitative

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Covers 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-24; 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 2026-08-17 – 2026-08-24.

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• HAJJ ADMINISTRATION IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS GOVERNANCE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE AND PUBLIC WELFARE IN TALIABU ISLAND REGENCY
• Crucifixes and Snowflakes: Exploring entanglements between music and religion in diverse schools
• Contestation of Religious Authority in Serat Cebolek: State Legitimacy in Mataram
• Ḥākimiyya as a philosophy of history: Divine sovereignty and the marginalization of human agency
• Förord: Att sätta religion på plats

Themes: religion, religious authority, colonialism, Christianity, identity, polarization, Nigeria, political stability

Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, historical analysis, textual analysis, ethnographic

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Covers 2026-08-10 to 2026-08-17; 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 2026-08-10 – 2026-08-17.

Top papers

• Suffering, Trauma, and Relational Integration: Re-Envisioning Spiritual Care and Psychoanalysis in a Decolonial Age
• Virtuous Worldviews and Bottom-up Deliberation: Origins of Liberal Democracy in the "Iliad" and the Hebrew Bible
• Transcendent Lobbying: Jewish Prayer for Trans People as Resilience, Embodiment, and Sacred Alignment
• Taking out the church, bringing in the state
• Navigating Ambiguity: Street-Level Managers Discretion in the Implementation of Religious Policy in Divided Societies

Themes: interfaith dialogue, pluralism, secularism, religious freedom, religious harmony, conflict resolution, reconciliation, politics

Methods: qualitative, case-study, historical analysis, survey, descriptive, desk research

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Covers 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-10; 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 2026-08-03 – 2026-08-10.

Top papers

• “True Americans” at the ballot box: ascriptive republicanism, Christian nationalism, and the populist right in 2024
• Solidarity in Crisis: Challenges in Fostering Muslim Solidarity in Malaysian Refugee Policies
• Populist realism, civilizationalism, and the right: On the intellectual history of contemporary US foreign policy
• Iranian elite sportswomen: Docile yet defiant bodies
• Revolutionizing Time, Reforging Social Orders: State-Building Success and the Enforcement of Symbolic Programs in Revolutionary France

Themes: religion, social justice, nationalism, peacebuilding, Indonesia, polarization, secularism, political theology

Methods: qualitative, case-study, survey, ethnographic, document analysis, content analysis

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Covers 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-03; 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 2026-07-27 – 2026-08-03.

Top papers

• Most people who agree with you won’t protest: Predictors of marches and demonstrations from six decades of research
• Nature-based relational peace cultivation in Northern Ireland and South Africa
• Transforming the Right to Religious Freedom in and through Cities
• The Social Infrastructure of Indonesian Politics: Religious Networks, Elite Brokerage, and Democratic Governance
• Anti-catholicism and the psychology of prejudice: A case study in secular blind spots.

Themes: social cohesion, democracy, political engagement, political polarization, democratic governance, social justice, pluralism, religion

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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• 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

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