CenSAMM podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Academics and experts discuss the critical study of apocalypticism and millenarianism hosted by the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM).
Christopher Rowland (University of Oxford) is interviewed by Catrin Williams and James Crossley about his career in the study of apocalypticism and his recently published collected essays. The sound quality for Crossley is not quite the expected studio quality because the interview was recorded over Zoom but it is clear and comprehensible.
Britta Gullin (Umea University, Sweden) looks at the complex causes and processes behind the violence involved in two events concerning two millenarian movements: Branch Davidians at Waco, USA (1993) and Ordre du Temple Solaire (OTS) at Freiburg, Switzerland (1994). The sound is not ideal because the recording is from a paper presented on Skype, but it is entirely comprehensible and the quality, of course, shines through.
Timothy Jenkins (University of Cambridge) looks at Festinger’s When Prophecy Fails (1956) and his famous study of believers in UFOs, including gender distinctions made among the group.
Roundtable discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Beth Singler, Robert Geraci, Victoria Lorrimar, and Scott Midson, hosted by Simon Robinson.
Christopher Rowland (Dean Ireland’s Emeritus Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford) discusses apocalyptic language in the work of William Blake (1757-1827). In particular, the Book of Revelation, the paradigmatic apocalypse, is shown to have had a profound influence on Blake’s texts and images.
In this episode, Susan Palmer (Concordia University) looks at six millenarian groups (OTS/Solar Temple, MOVE/OnaMove, Oneida Community, Twelve Tribes, Doukhobors/Spirit Wrestlers, and Ecoovie), and discusses their attitudes towards children and violence.
Justin Meggitt (University of Cambridge) talks about the Panacea Charitable Trust and the importance of the critical, academic study of apocalypticism and millenarian movement
Sarah Harvey and Suzanne Newcombe (INFORM, Kings' College London) discuss apocalyptic movements and gender, with a close look at DK Foundation, Church Universal and Triumphant, Family International/Children of God, and Brahma Kumaris.
In this short podcast, Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmith's, University of London) talks about the definitions of "prophecy" and "millenarianism"
This episode features an interview with Damian Cyrocki (St Mary's Univeristy, Twickenham) who has worked extensively in the Polish group, the Mariavites.
This episode is a recording of a public lecture given to the Worthing Theological Society (January 2020) on the most famous priest of the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381, his use of the Bible and apocalyptic traditions, and the English radical tradition.
This episode features an interview on Christian Zionism and American politics with Sean Durbin, author of Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel (Brill, 2018).
This episode features an interview with Christina Petterson (Australian National University) on Zinzendorf, the Moravian Brethren and their apocalpytic beliefs. The interview took place at the annual American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference, Denver 2018.
This episode features an interview with Herb Berg (University of North Carolina Wilmington) on the Nation of Islam and ideas relating to apocalypticism. The interview took place at the annual American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference, Denver 2018.
CenSAMM's inaugural podcast on Christian origins, with a particular focus on the Gospel of Matthew and 'Q', and featuring Erin Roberts and Sarah Rollens. The interview took place at the annual Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion conference in Denver, November 2018.