Episode 3. Translating Indigeneities with Bjørn Ola Tafjord Thinking About Indigenous Religions

How to do research in religious studies without being too preoccupied with finding religion? How to resist the temptation of translating things categorically into religion and indigeneity? How to take seriously practices that powerful institutions try to delegitimize as ‘false religion’ or ‘primitive religion’? How to do critical research without religionizing and indigenizing practices and communities uncritically? In this episode, we meet Professor Bjørn Ola Tafjord, who describes how ...