The Shiloh Podcast

the Shiloh Project with Rosie Dawson
The Shiloh Podcast

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.

  1. Revolt-ing women; highlighting abuse in Jewish communities

    9 AUG

    Revolt-ing women; highlighting abuse in Jewish communities

    Yehudis Fletcher and Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen talk to Rosie about their friendship, the need to highlight abuse in Jewish contexts and the painful study of Scriptures. Warning - you may find some of the content of this conversation distressing.

    45 min

  2. 23 MAY

    Students talk spiritual abuse.

    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.

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

    23 MAR

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

    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 lecture at the University of Chester.

    31 min
  4. "Would the Buddha have believed you?"

    8 JAN

    "Would the Buddha have believed you?"

    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 communities.

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

    09/11/2023

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

    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 abuse, The AIRC project has an information and resource service which you can contact on airs@kent.ac.uk

    37 min
  6. Abuse in Religious Contexts: the story of Yogi Bhajan

    03/10/2023

    Abuse in Religious Contexts: the story of Yogi Bhajan

    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 sexually and spiritually abused by him. The story is told to Rosie here by Los Angeles journalist and essayist, Stacie Stukin and Philip DeSlippe, an academic researcher and historian of yoga based at University of California, Santa Barbara.

    48 min
  7. Abuse in Religious Contexts: Reporting, Secrecy, and Silencing

    25/09/2023

    Abuse in Religious Contexts: Reporting, Secrecy, and Silencing

    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 inquiries law at Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK). - Yehudis Fletcher an Independent Sexual Violence Adviser and co-founder of Nahamu which combats culturally specific harms in the Jewish community. - Yasmin Rehman, a feminist, human rights activist and researcher and the CEO of Juno Women's Aid.

    53 min

  8. 07/09/2023

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

    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 design the show so that it communicates the experiences of survivors in a way that is as safe as possible for them to engage with. Rosie went along to one of them.....

    26 min
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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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  • Creator
    the Shiloh Project with Rosie Dawson
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 the Shiloh Project with Rosie Dawson
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