WRSP FORUM INTERVIEWS
The collection of WRSP FORUM INTERVIEWS are print interviews on topics that address the interests of scholars studying religion. The individuals interviews are drawn primarily from original WRSP interviews moderated by the special project directors, the joint interview project with the Albion Calling Blog, and interview posts produced by The Religious Studies Project. A few interviews are drawn from other online sources, with appropriate credits.
BRANCH DAVIDIANS
“Deadly Encounter At Mount Carmel: The Branch Davidian – Federal Agency Confrontation, February 28 – April 19, 1993″
Interview with Stuart Wright
Publication Date: 9/13/2013
CONSPIRACY THEORIES, GNOSTICISM, AND THE
CRITICAL STUDY OF RELIGION
Interview with David G. Robinson
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 3/22/2021
CULT AWARENESS MOVEMENT
“Scientology, Anti-Cultists, and Scholars”
Bernadette Rigal-Cellard Interview
Republished with the permission of Bitter Winter
Publication Date: 4 July 2021
“The Cult Awareness Movement in North America: Past, Present, Future”
Interview with Michael Langone
Publication Date: 8/10/2014
“Understanding the Religious Landscape: The Info-Secte/Info-Cult Perspective”
Interview with Michael Kropveld
Publication Date: 12/29/2015
DADDY GRACE
“From Daddy Grace to the Cowboy Christians”
Interview with Marie Dallam
Publication Date: 1/2/2023
ENVIRONMENTALISM
“From the California Beaches to Dark Green Religion.”
Interview with Bron Taylor
Publication Date: 12/29/2021
“Pagan Festivals, Burning Man, and Ritual in Radical Environmentalism”
Interview with Sarah M. Pike
Publication Date: 1/31/2022
ESOTERICISM
“From Thelma to Santa Muerte.”
Interview with Manon Hedenborg White
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 3/30/2021
“Developing the Study of Western Esotericism”
Interview with Dave Evans
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 12/1/2012
HEAVEN’S GATE
“Aspiring for the Stars: Heaven’s Gate”
Interview with Benjamin Zeller
Publication Date: 7/14/2015
INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS GROUPS
CHIRICAHUA APACHES
“Honoring the Ancestors and Their Descendants: Chiricahua Apaches”
Interview with H. Henrietta Stockel
Publication Date: 9/20/2014
INVENTED RELIGION
“Invented Religions”
Interview with Carole Cusack
Publication Date: 10/7/2017
Republication with the permission of The Religious Studies Project
ISLAM
“From Rodnoverie to Islam: Religious Minorities in Modern Russia”
Interview with Dr Kaarina Aitamurto
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 7/31/2017
“Western Military Intervention Is What ISIS Wants”
Interview with Massimo Introvigne
Republication with the permission of the Vatican Insider
Publication Date: 9/23/2014
JAINISM
“A Jain Leader Addresses the World”
Interview with Gurudev Shri Chitrabhanuji
Posted with the permission of Forbes Magazine
Publication Date: 6/30/2013
MILLENNIAL RELIGION
“National Socialism as Millennial Religion?
Interview with David Redles
Publication Date: 8/13/2014
MODERN PAGANISM
“Pagan Festivals, Burning Man, and Ritual in Radical Environmentalism”
Interview with Sarah M. Pike
Publication Date: 1/31/2022
HEATHENRY
“Heathenry in the United States”
Interview with Jennifer Snook
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 3/30/2021
“Heathens in America”
Interview with Jefferson F. Calico
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 8/1/2021
WICCA
“From the Witch Trials to Wicca”
Interview with Helen Berger
Publication Date: 11/21/2021
MORMONISM
“Seeking Equality in the LDS Church: Activism for Women’s Ordination”
Interview with Kate Kelly
Publication Date: 10/27/2014
PAGANISM
“From Rodnoverie to Islam: Religious Minorities in Modern Russia”
Interview with Dr Kaarina Aitamurto
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 7/31/2017
“Paganism, Celtic Culture, and Ithell Colquhoun”
Interview with Amy Hale
Published jointly with On New and Alternative Religions
Publication Date: 4/27/2021
PEOPLES TEMPLE
“Defining and Preserving the Peoples Temple in Collective Memory”
Interview with Mr. Fielding M. McGehee III and Dr. Rebecca Moore
Publication Date: 8/24/2013
RADICALIZATION / DERADICALIZATION
“From NRMs to Salafi-Jihardist Terrorism”
Interview with Professor Emeritus Lorne L. Dawson
Publication Date: 2/27/2024
SATANISM
“Satanism, Cinema, and Martial Arts”
Interview with Per Faxneld
Publication Date: 11/9/2023
SCIENTOLOGY
“Scientology, Anti-Cultists, and Scholars”
Bernadette Rigal-Cellard Interview
Republished with the permission of Bitter Winter
Publication Date: 7/4/2021
“Free Zone Scientology”
Interview with Aled Thomas
Publication Date: 8/15/2022
SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES
CESNUR
“CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions”
Interview with Massimo Introvigne
Publication Date: 6/7/2016
INFORM
“How To Be Informed About Minority Religions: Celebrating Inform On Its
Twenty-Fifty Anniversary”
Interview with Eileen Barker
Publication Date: 12/24/2013
INSIDER AND OUTSIDER IDENTITIES
“Vampires, Baysider Catholics, D&D, and The Satanic Temple”
(Interview with Joseph Laycock)
Publication Date: 8/14/2022
VODOU
“How the Lwa Come to a Haitian Vodou Ritual”
An interview with Sallie Ann Glassman
Publication Date: 10/9/2018
WOMEN IN NEW RELIGIONS
“From the Witch Trials to Wicca”
Interview with Helen Berger
Publication Date: 11/21/2021
“Seeking Equality in the LDS Church: Activism for Women’s Ordination”
Interview with Kate Kelly
Publication Date: 10/27/2014
“Women in New Religions”
Inteview with Dr. Laura Vance
Publication Date: 4/27/2015
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Project Directors:
Ethan Doyle White, Senior Director
Catherine Wessinger,
David G. Bromley
For further information, contact:
Ethan Doyle White
Ethan-Doyle-White@hotmail.co.uk