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Dault Broadcast Seeding by Richard Newton
Broadcast Seeding brings you future food for thought on religion, culture, and teaching. If there’s something folks are afraid to bring up at the dinner table, Dr. Richard Newton discusses it here with today’s most provocative thinkers.
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Dault Broadcast Seeding by Richard Newton

Mormon polygamy is one of the most popularly intriguing aspects of American Religious History. Dr. Hannah Jung (University of Alabama) helps us understand that law and politics of interpretation around the practice in a presentation called, “The Law of the Land”: The Hermeneutics of Continued Mormon Polygamy after 1890.” Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures,…

Dr. Richard Newton (University of Alabama) share the story behind his latedst project, Decoding Diaspora, an online humanities dataset that puts social theory and computational tools to work. Newton calls this approach to cultural analytics "data signification." And in this presentation, he discusses what it begins to tell him about a mysterious family scrapbook.

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Casey A'hearn (Doctoral Student, Department of Religion, Princeton University) brings to us a presentation called “What Does It Mean to be Mormon and American? Scripturalizing John J. Stewart’s Pamphlets Program.” A'hearn shares with us an fascinating intriguing example of scripturalization…

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Seth Perry (Princeton University) brings to us a presentation called “What Does It Look Like When God Cites Himself: The Revelations of Latter Day Saints Prophet John Taylor.” Perry presents a fascinating case study on texts as mechanisms of critique, community formation, and political…

Dr. Jennifer Barry (Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of Mary Washington) discusses her latest book, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination (University of California Press, 2025).

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Rachel Schwaller (University of Kansas) brings to us a presentation called “(Un)scripted (Un)settlement: Mapping the Language of Homeless Encampment in Lawrence, Kansas.” Schwaller blends archival work, ethnography, and GIS in a mapping of settlement and land ownership. She compellingly…

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Bradford Anderson (Dublin City University) brings to us a presentation called "The Bible Beyond Reading: The Iconic, Contested, and Mediated Bible in Ireland” Homrighausen helps us explore the ways and reasons behind the intriguing scripturalization of Anderson takes a grounded theory…

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Joanna Homrighausen (Colelge of William & Mary) shares with us a presentation called “Unrolling the Megillah: The Esther Scroll as Jewish Scripture, Artifact, and Liturgical Prop.” Homrighausen helps us explore the ways and reasons behind the intriguing scripturalization of the iconic…

Broadcast Seeding is pleased to be the audio home of Off-Script: Scriptures, Scholarship, and Conversation. Dr. Jeffrey Turner (University of Alabama) shares with us a presentation called "Scriptures, Immigration, and the Digital Study of Religion." Turner uses computational methods to redescribe the story of immigration law in the United States, helping us better color and question a powerful…