Professor of theology and religious studies Jacqueline Hidalgo tells us about extractive reading, myths of innocence, and recovering the enjoyment of books.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Newspaper ad for 1921 film I Am Guilty (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Christina Aguilera
Hilton Als
White Girls
Johann Sebastian Bach
Anne Carson
Paul Celan
Ally Condie
The Matched Trilogy
Roald Dahl
"William and Mary"
Jacques Derrida
Ecclesiastes
Aros Fioretos, ed.
Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan
Federico García Lorca
Justo L. González
Glenn Gould
Leo Guardado
Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement
Dave Hickey
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy
Edward Hirsch
"Fast Break"
Edward Hirsch
How to Read a Poem
Edward Hirsch
The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
Sylvester A. Johnson
The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity
Maia Kotrosits
R. F. Kuang
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Libby
Burton L. Mack
A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins
Terrence Malick
Badlands
Terrence Malick
The Tree of Life
Karl Marx
Writings on alienation
Cherríe L. Moraga
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010
Morrissey
You Are the Quarry
Shaquille O'Neal
The Onion
"Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu"
Elizabeth Pérez
"Sorry Cites: The (Necro) Politics of Citation in the Anthropology of Religion"
RadioArt(r)
The Phone Book
Joanne Ramos
The Farm
Lou Reed
"Hangin' Round"
Keri Russell
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
"Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading"
Britney Spears
The Woman in Me
Ben Stiller
Reality Bites
Justin Timberlake
Michelle Williams
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