Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we sit down with Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin, co-creators of the podcast Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Guide to Religion. We hear about their friendship, their entry into podcasting, and their approaches toward anti-racist religious studies work.

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest bios:

Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst is a scholar of religion, race and radicalization, and history. She is currently working on Imperial Pandemics, an academic monograph that thinks about religion and race as global phenomena. She is an associate professor of Religion and director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont. She has been recognized as an award-winning teacher whose courses are about the history of religion, Islamic practice and history, race and imperialism, and South Asian traditions. She is the author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion.

Dr. Megan Goodwin is a scholar of gender, race, sexuality, politics, and American religions. She is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). Her next book is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion. She is the founder and co-director of the Bardo Institute for Religion and Public Policy, and the media and tech consultant on the Crossroads Project.

Together they are working on Religion Isn't Done with You, a book drawing upon Keeping It 101.

Links and Resources:

Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Guide to Religion

The Feminist Killjoy Manifesto by Sarah Ahmed

Intro + Outro Theme Music: Pxl Cray – Blue Dot Studios (2016)

Written and produced by: Stacey Copeland and Natalie Dusek

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