Category: Religious Deconstruction/Agnosticism/Atheism

• Episode 6: The West – Savior or Demonizer?

  

  If queerness was so prevalent in premodern Asia, when and why did it all change? It starts with the 3Cs… Colonialism, Capitalism and Christianity. In part 1: the imposition of Christian morality through colonization in the Philippines, India and Vietnam

  nuancespod

  September 8, 2024

  Asian American Guests, Buddhism, Capitalism, Christianity, Islam, LGBTQIA+, Orientalism, Religion, Religious Deconstruction/Agnosticism/Atheism, Sikhism, Systemic oppression

  aapi, asog, babaylan, bipoc, British empire, Franciscan missions, French empire, Indian Penal Code, jacobus x, Maganito, nuancespod, Portuguese India, Premodern Asia, Queer Asians, Queering Premodern Asia, Section 377, Spanish empire, untrodden fields of anthropology, Vagrancy laws

• Episode 5: Gods, Sex and the Patriarchy

  A god of same-sex love. A bearded goddess of war and fertility. Gods in the form of genitalia. What can mythology and folk religion teach us about queerness in premodern Asia?

  nuancespod

  July 28, 2024

  Asian American Guests, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, LGBTQIA+, Religion, Religious Deconstruction/Agnosticism/Atheism, Sikhism

  aapi, amaterasu, bipoc, buddhism, chudala, fujian marriage, ishtar, islam, khajuraho sculpture, king hyegong, korean shamanism, lakapati, navigating queerness, no nuong, nuancespod, Premodern Asia, Queer Asians, Queering Premodern Asia, shikhandi, shintoism, Sikhism, tu’er shen, vietnamese bronze jar

• S3 E07: Scott Okamoto on losing faith and becoming an English professor at an evangelical school.

  

  Author Scott Okamoto talks about deconstructing his faith as he taught in an evangelical school. We touch on his family’s history in the Japanese Incarceration camps, patriotism, and winning people over through genuine care and relationship, not facts and arguments. Scott also shares his thoughts on Oppenheimer (2023)

  sherrylynnlee

  July 30, 2023

  Asian American Guests, Christianity, Conservatism, Japanese American, Japanese Internment Camps, Media representation, Patriotism, Religious Deconstruction/Agnosticism/Atheism, Systemic oppression

  aapi, asian american apostate, chapel probation, exvangelical, Japanese American, japanese incarceration camp, nuancespod, Patriotism, proudamerican, scott okamoto