The Divorcing Religion Podcast Janice Selbie

Sandy Bigtree & Philip Arnold - The Religious Origins of White Supremacy

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Hannah Abbasi - From Christian to Muslim to Secular Humanist, Part 2
Divorced: Islam

In our last episode, we were introduced to Hannah Abbasi. Hannah grew up in a Christian home but converted to Islam in her teens due to family influences on her father’s side. In today’s episode, we learn more about what it was like for Hannah to live and study in nations heavily influenced by Islam, what brought her back to the USA, and how she became involved in Humanism. 

Eventually, Hannah co-founded An-Nas, an ethics-based community for humanists from Muslim backgrounds dedicated to providing opportunities for personal growth, promoting social justice, and contributing to an inclusive, multicultural humanism through engagement with the arts, sciences, and humanities in intersectional spaces.

RESOURCES
https://www.an-nas.org/

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Hannah Abbasi - From Christian to Muslim to Secular Humanist, Part 1
Divorced: Christianity

PART 1 – FROM CHRISTIAN TO MUSLIM 
My guest today is Hannah Abbasi, a transplant to New York City from Austin, Texas. As an adult, she has also lived in Qom, Beirut, and Cairo. At the University of Texas at Austin, Hannah studied Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and History with a minor in Arabic Language. She went on to study at Islamic seminaries in Iran and Lebanon and completed her Master’s of Science in Education from the City College of New York in 2018.
Hannah eventually co-founded AN-NAS, an ethics-based community for humanists from Muslim backgrounds. In this episode, Hannah shares about her life from childhood up to college.
RESOURCES MENTIONED 
https://www.an-nas.org/ 
https://rarforum.org/fellows/
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Melanie Trecek-King - Critical Thinking is Power

Divorced: Religious Fundamentalism

Melanie Trecek-King is an Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College, where she equips students with empowering critical thinking, information literacy, and science literacy skills.

Melanie loves to share her “teach skills, not facts” approach with other science educators and to help organizations meet their goals through better thinking. She is also the Education Director for the Mental Immunity Project and CIRCE (Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative), which aim to advance and apply the science of mental immunity to inoculate minds against misinformation. In addition to her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry, and a Master of Arts in Ecology, Ms. Trecek-King is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Today, Melanie will be speaking with me about fine-tuning our critical thinking skills, including exploring how we form our beliefs.

FIND MELANIE: https://thinkingispower.com/

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Jeff Beaumont - Trafficked by Scientology
Divorced: Scientology
CW: Trafficking, forced labour, self-harm.

Jeff Beaumont was born into Scientology and educated at the local Scientology school in Vancouver, BC, Canada. At age 14, he was kidnapped and trafficked to the USA to perform labour in the Sea Org branch of Scientology. During that time, Jeff was forced to disconnect from his mother, who was out of Scientology at that point. On returning to Vancouver, he spent about 10 more years on staff at the church of Scientology. 
In 2012, Jeff woke up - and he has been working on his recovery ever since. Recently, he started speaking out against the abuses of Scientology on YouTube and podcasts. His YouTube channel is called PTS for Life.  
In this episode, Jeff shares about growing up 2nd Gen and what it’s been like reintegrating into life outside his former high-demand group.
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Matthew Remski - Conspirituality

Divorced: Roman Catholicism
Today’s guest is journalist and author MATTHEW REMSKI. In addition to being the author of 8 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, Matthew is co-host of the wildly popular Conspirituality Podcast. I asked him to join me after hearing his presentation “When Spirituality is a Broken Space,” at the Symposium on Death and Bereavement Studies, hosted by Dr. Terri Daniel. Today, Matthew shares insights into how conspirituality and capitalism hijacked COVID.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
·         CONSPIRITUALITY: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became A Health Threat, by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, & Julian Walker
·         Love, Terror, and Brainwashing, by Alexandra Stein
·        Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond, by Matthew Remski
·         Critical Thinking Cards and posters available here: https://www.schoolofthought.org/projects
FIND MATTHEW:
https://www.conspirituality.net/
https://matthewremski.com/wordpress/
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