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Podcast: Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Episode: RU99: DR RICHARD NEWTON ON AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, RELIGION, CULTURE, EDUCATION
Description: Richard Newton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He received his PhD in Critical Comparative Scriptures from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Newton’s areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His research explores how people create “scriptures” and how those productions operate in the formation of identities and cultural boundaries. In addition to an array of book chapters and online essays, Dr. Newton has published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Method & Theory in the...