On Human Remains | Discourse! May 2021
Channel: Religious Studies Project
Date: 2021-05-31

It's a bumper episode of Discourse this month, as four (count them, four!) RSP editors sit down to discuss how the media are talking about religion this month. First, Breann, David, and Dave introduce Andie as the RSP's new Managing Editor, before we discuss mass COVID cremations in India, a new synagogue at the site of a Nazi massacre in the Ukraine, protests over a new telescope in Hawaiʻi, and the scandal over the remains of the victims of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. It's not our most lighthearted episode.

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⸻ Discussion Topics ⸻
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - RSP Updates
05:26 - University of Sydney Studies in Religion Dept
09:47 - COVID Mass Cremations in India 
15:45 - Babyn Yar Synagogue/Memorial in Ukraine 
21:45 - Orientalisation & Commodification of Death Rituals
25:50 - Protests of the TMT on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi
31:35 - Discovery of Remains from MOVE Bombing
44:46 - Wrapping Up
45:45 - Credits

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