The Shiloh Podcast

May 23 2024

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The Shiloh Project and its podcast shine a light on the stories and practices of religion that either contribute to or resist rape culture. Through conversations with scholars and practitioners, the podcast invites us all to think about ways that we can challenge and dismantle rape culture in our own communities. The Shiloh project is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Leeds and Auckland and funded by AHRC.

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Students talk spiritual abuse.

May 23 2024 30 mins

This guest episode of the Shiloh podcast comes from four University of Leeds students as part of a project called ‘Investigating Spiritual Abuse in Church Settings’. The project aims to destigmatise and spread awareness of spiritual abuse through its engagement with the local community and campus.

Silence isn't Golden: Addressing abuse in religious contexts through partnership working.

Mar 23 2024 30 mins

Rosie's guest on this episode is Professor Lisa Oakley, one of the country's leading experts on spiritual abuse. What is spiritual abuse? Why is it important to recognise it as a distinct category of abuse? And how does she ensure that the research she carries out is trauma informed and survivor-focused? Lisa was talking to Rosie as she prepared to give her inaugural professorial l

"Would the Buddha have believed you?"

Jan 08 2024 52 mins

The Abuse in Religious Contexts project looks at the peculiar factors which allow abuse to take place within religious settings.In this episode Amy Langenberg, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Eckerd college Florida, and Ann Gleig, Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at University of Central Florida, discuss their work on abuse in convert Buddhist communit

Abuse in Religious Contexts: working with Muslim survivors of abuse.

Nov 09 2023 36 mins

The Abuse in Religious Contexts project looks at the peculiar factors which allow abuse to take place within religious settings. Rosie's guests in this episode are Dr Rahmanara Chowdhury, senior lecturer in forensic psychology at Nottingham Trent University and Farooq Mullah, chaplain for Nottingham health trust. Please be aware that this episode contains disclosures of sexual abus

Abuse in Religious Contexts: the story of Yogi Bhajan

Oct 02 2023 48 mins

The Abuse in Religious Contexts project looks at the peculiar factors which allow abuse to take place within religious settings. Today we hear about one such setting – the 3H0( Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) founded by Yogi Bhajan who introduced Kundalini yoga to the United States. After his death in 2004 scores of his female followers came forward to say they had been

Abuse in Religious Contexts: Reporting, Secrecy, and Silencing

Sep 25 2023 52 mins

This is the third webinar-podcast from “Abuse in Religious Contexts,” an AHRC-funded research project, which explores the ways cultures and structures of a wide variety of faith communities cause, facilitate, legitimate, justify, and hide abuse. Speakers in this episode include;- Richard Scorer, a lawyer specialising in child and vulnerable adult abuse, human rights and public

"I Lord" - a theatre director's response to spiritual and other forms of abuse.

Sep 07 2023 26 mins

The Abuse in Religious Contexts project is happy to be engaging with Nell Hardy, an actor and theatre director, who has written a play which tackles issues around spiritual and other intersectional faith-based abuses. It will be premiered in London on October 30th - listen for details! Over the summer Nell has been holding a series of workshops with survivors to de

Abusing God; Hypermasculinity

Jun 26 2023 8 mins

Abusing God; Reading the bible in the #MeToo age is an AHRC funded project which held its second colloquium in Manchester on the topic of hypermasculinity. Rosie Dawson gathered some reflections from participants Abi, Jo, Charlotte Thomas, Sarah Molyneux-Hetherington, Andy Boyake and Will Moore.

Abuse in Religious Contexts: the role of Scripture.

Apr 26 2023 56 mins

This is the second webinar-podcast from “Abuse in Religious Contexts,” an AHRC-funded research project, which explores the ways cultures and structures of a wide variety of faith communities cause, facilitate, legitimate, justify, and hide abuse.In this episode - about the role of Scripture in justifying or challenging abuse - Dr Rahmanara Chowdhury, Dr H

Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo age.

Apr 18 2023 22 mins

Dr Kirsi Cobb, lecturer in Biblical studies at Cliff College in Derbyshire and Dr Holly Morse, senior lecturer in Bible, Gender and culture at the University of Manchester talk to Rosie about their AHRC funded project Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo age.