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 

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