What can sound teach us about identity, memory, and the sacred? In this episode, sociocultural anthropologist Dr. Sarah Bakker Kellogg joins us to discuss her book Sonic Icons: Relation, Recognition, and Revival in a Syriac World.

Drawing on years of ethnographic research among Syriac Orthodox communities in Europe, she explores how voice, chant, and vibration act as powerful mediums for diasporic kinship, political recognition, and spiritual encounter. How do communities navigate the tension between tradition and innovation through sound? And what kind of ethical and theological claims are made when the divine is encountered not through doctrine, but through resonance?