This installment of ReligionWise features Kocku von Stuckrad, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.In this conversation, we discuss discourse analysis and its utility in the academic study of religion. In particular, we consider examples from Professor von Stuckrad’s two most recent books: The Scientification of Religion (2015) and A Cultural History of the Soul (2022). Show Notes:<ul><li><a href='https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-cultural-history-of-the-soul/9780231200370'>A Cultural History of the Soul: Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present</a>  (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-cultural-history-of-the-soul/9780231200370)</li><li><a href='https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781614513490/html'>The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800–2000</a> (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781614513490/html)</li></ul>

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ReligionWise features educators, researchers, and other professionals discussing their work and the place of religion in the public conversation. Host Chip Gruen, the Director of the Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding of Muhlenberg College, facilitates conversations that aim to provide better understanding of varieties of religious expression and their impacts on the human experience. For more about the Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding, visit www.religionandculture.com.