LIVE! "Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Approach to Studying Religion" with Dr. Jenny Wiley Legath @ Princeton University
Transcript this LIVE episode:
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SURPRISE! It’s a live episode!
On October 6, 2021, we “visited”—by which we mean we sat in Maine and Vermont and New Jersey all logged into teams at the same time—Princeton University. The Center for Culture, Society, and Religion and specifically the incomparable Dr. Jenny Wiley Legath welcomed us for two talks. The recorded talk, “Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Approach to Studying Religion,” was a public attempt to sum up why we do this podcast, what’s at stake, and why that matters methodologically and theoretically to the study of religion. The second talk was a more private affair, geared at graduate students and interested faculty in digital scholarship, public humanities, and how to do them.
We want to thank all the folks at the CCSR who made this happen, especially Dr. Legath, but also Dr. Jonathan Gold, Dr. Kirby, Jennifer Klumpp, and the really present, attentive guests. We had a blast and our only regret was not being able to be present IRL.
Your homework for this LIVE Bonus Episode:
There really isn’t any! But we highly recommend checking out Dr. Legath’s work.
Legath, Jenny Wiley. 2019. Sanctified Sisters: A History of Protestant Deaconesses. New York: NYU Press.
Legath, Jenny Wiley. 2019. “"Something is about to go terribly wrong at the border" -- Notes from a Deaconess.” From the Square.
Legath, Jenny Wiley. 2021. “North American Diaconia and the Deaconess Movement.” International Handbook on Ecumenical Diakonia: Contextual Theologies of Diaconia and Christian Social Services. Oxford: Regnum Books.