Religion // Season 2, Episode 3
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Photo by Joe York
Welcome to Swerve South! This week the hosts delve into their religious backgrounds and discuss some of the ways their religious upbringing informed their decisions to pursue gender studies. Do you have a pervasive fear of the devil? What are your thoughts on patriarchy and how does this relate to theology? You will ask these questions and dive into some buried thoughts that will help you consider the power of religion in social constructions and pop culture. This week’s conversation is personal, yet relatable. Join Jaime and Theresa as they discuss the impact of Mormonism and Southern Baptist religious traditions on their career paths and discover or consider some ways your background shapes you. Once you listen, you may consider the power of childhood traditions and maybe take a little solace in knowing we all have some religious baggage to work through!
Show Notes:
Read Theresa’s newest piece, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, which was mentioned in the beginning of the episode.
Learn more about Joseph Harker in the Missionary Database.
For your viewing pleasure (or terror!):
Left Behind, 2014
THE head spinning scene from The Exorcist
For more on Mormonism, check out these sources:
“Book examines pivotal moment in US history: Joseph Smith’s murder”, Peggy Fletcher Stack
“Mary Fielding Smith—Mother in Israel”, Jane McBride Choate
"Lives of the Saints / Mormonism’s Trouble Legacy, Lawrence Wright"
"What is a Gentile?", Sam MB
”Mormon baptisms of Holocaust victims draw ire”, Brady McCombs
”Mormon Church peels back mystery of sacred undergarments”, Lindsey Beaver
“40 years after her Mormon excommunication, ERA firebrand Sonia Johnson salutes today’s ‘wonderful' women, says men ‘bore’ her", Peggy Fletcher Stack
"The Movement to Ordain Mormon Women", Natalie Dicou
Women and Authority, Re-emerging Mormon Feminism, Maxine Hanks
The Family: A Proclamation to the World, The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Additional Reading on Sci-Fi, Religion, and Feminism:
Battlestar Galactica and Mormon Theology, Stuart Parker
Born Again ‘Battlestar’
Writing a Woman’s Life, Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Rachel Blau Duplessis