How do you become religious? What is a conversion experience? Does it happen all at once or gradually? What's the point of religion, anyway? These are questions that JF (a Catholic) and Phil (a Zennist) have often been asked since starting Weird Studies, and in this episode they attempt some answers.
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REFERENCES
Ross Douthat, Believe
Dogen, Shobogenzo
New Atheism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism
Weird Studies, Episode 99 on “Wild, Wild Country”
William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
George Steiner, Real Presences
Patrick Curry, Art and Enchantment
Max Picard, The Flight from God
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense
Weird Studies, Episode 183 on “Siddhartha”
Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher
Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”
Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot
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