Mikey Pasek is a social psychologist, and is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. He leads the Belief, Identity, and Group Relations Lab at UIC. We discussed a range of topics, including religion, big and moralizing gods, Christian nationalism, race, and how to alter anti-democratic attitudes.
OTHER LINKS
--White House Executive Order: Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
--Beyond Conflict
--Interfaith Philadelphia
--God Is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens
--Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, by Ara Norenzayan
--Southern Poverty Law Center Page on The Westboro Baptist Church
--"Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Word" (Interview on NPR's Fresh Air)
--"Religious ‘Nones’ in America: Who They Are and What They Believe" (Pew Research Center)
--Martin Luther King Jr. and the American Revolution
MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)
--"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts
--"Funky End," by Pawel Feszczuk
--"Caress me to sleep," by rui
--"Monsters of the past," by Pawel Feszczuk
--"Precisamos de um plano," by rui
--"Light Lab," by Rest You Sleeping Giant
Special Guest: Michael Pasek.
