Rethinking Religion: Analyzing Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Post-Truth Politics with Professors Svenungsson, Fridlund & Linjamaa

Religion in Praxis Conversation Series

In this episode, the three speakers, Jayne Svenungsson, Patrik Fridlund, and Paul Linjamaa, examine the shifting and sometimes counterintuitive dimensions of the concept of religion as a category of analysis and a category of practice. In this episode, we further problematize the discursive practices of religion as a social force in Western philosophy, and the functional dimension of religion as a producer and communicator of meaning - in light of religious involvement in post-truth politics, the relativization of factuality and evidence, and the socio-political implications of these interactions. Finally, the episode examines the mechanisms involved in the construction of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and heresiology as a phenomenon.

A special thank you to Professor Tymofii Brik, who kindly agreed to substitute our regular host, Tornike, for this episode.