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Gurdjieff and the Study of Contemporary Religion
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Gurdjieff and the Study of Contemporary Religion
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51 minutes
Released:
Feb 23, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
David Robertson speaks to two remarkable scholars, Carole Cusack and Steven Sutcliffe, on the significance of G. I. Gurdjieff to the study of religion. How do we approach figures like Gurdjieff whose legacies (and archives) are tightly controlled by their followers, and who often aren't seen as worthy of study by the academy and publishers?
Released:
Feb 23, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Invention of the Secular Academy: The Religious Studies Project, as an academic endeavour studying religion, is of course devoutly secular. In fact, we tend to take the connection between secularity and the academy completely for granted. But was this always the case? If not, by The Religious Studies Project