Shows
The Shiloh PodcastOn Not Fixing the Biblical GodWhat happens when we stop making excuses for the violent tyrannical god we encounter in the Bible? Rabbi Dr Barbara Thiede from the University of North Carolina talks to Rosie Dawson
2025-11-1724 min
The Shiloh PodcastTowards mandatory reportingThis is a recording from a webinar hosted by the AHRC funded Abuse in Religious Settings project in which solicitor Richard Scorer talks to Professor Gordon Lynch about his work on the need for the mandatory reporting of abuse in religious organisations.
2025-05-0639 min
The Shiloh PodcastRevolt-ing women; highlighting abuse in Jewish communitiesYehudis 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.
2024-08-0944 minThe Shiloh PodcastStudents 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.
2024-05-2330 min
The Shiloh PodcastSilence 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.
2024-03-2330 min
The Shiloh Podcast"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.
2024-01-0852 min
The Shiloh PodcastAbuse 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
2023-11-0936 min
The Shiloh PodcastAbuse in Religious Contexts: the story of Yogi BhajanThe 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...
2023-10-0348 min
The Shiloh PodcastAbuse in Religious Contexts: Reporting, Secrecy, and SilencingThis 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 r...
2023-09-2552 minThe Shiloh Podcast"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.....
2023-09-0726 minThe Shiloh PodcastAbusing God; Hypermasculinity Abusing God; Reading the bible in the #MeToo age is an AHRC funded project which held its second colloquium in Manchester on the topic of hypermasculinity. Rosie Dawson gathered some reflections from participants Abi, Jo, Charlotte Thomas, Sarah Molyneux-Hetherington, Andy Boyake and Will Moore.
2023-06-2608 min
The Shiloh PodcastAbuse in Religious Contexts: the role of Scripture.This is the second 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.In this episode - about the role of Scripture in justifying or challenging abuse - Dr Rahmanara Chowdhury, Dr Holly Morse and Professor Johanna Stiebert talk about their work. You will also hear contributions and responses from webinar participants, including those who support survivors and those with lived experience of abuse in religious contexts.
2023-04-2656 minThe Shiloh PodcastAbusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo age.Dr Kirsi Cobb, lecturer in Biblical studies at Cliff College in Derbyshire and Dr Holly Morse, senior lecturer in Bible, Gender and culture at the University of Manchester talk to Rosie about their AHRC funded project Abusing God: Reading the Bible in the #MeToo age.
2023-04-1822 min
The Shiloh PodcastAbuse in Buddhist contextsThis documentary offers audio snapshots of a recent workshop at the University of Leeds, hosted by Shiloh Project co-director Johanna Stiebert. Activities were led by Ann Gleig (Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies, University of Central Florida) and Amy Langenberg (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Eckerd College, Florida). Listen to how Ann and Amy, together with participants, consider the strengths and limitations of their disciplines when it comes to researching abuse. They also examine the different ways religious texts justify or challenge abuse, as well as the usefulness of cult studies for understanding the experience of surv...
2023-03-1417 min
The Shiloh PodcastAbuse in Religious Contexts and the Intersections of Power - with Gordon Lynch and Linda Woodhead“Abuse in Religious Contexts” is 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.This webinar-podcast features Professor Gordon Lynch and Professor Linda Woodhead, two of the project's key investigators, as they discuss how the intersections of power have impact on, direct and determine abuse in religious contexts.
2023-03-0756 minThe Shiloh PodcastWhy the US gun epidemic is also a scriptural pandemic.Richard Newton , Assistant Professor of Religious studies at the University of Alabama, took part in the recent Bible and Activism day in Leeds. In this conversation with Rosie he suggests that the language of pandemic and disease can help us understand the different contexts which inform people's reading of Scripture.
2023-02-2822 minThe Shiloh PodcastWhat you always wanted to know about the Bible but were afraid to ask…Here is just a taste of what happened when local Otleyresidents and fourteen international biblical scholars came together to discuss biblical texts, events and history, and why they matter.The event was the brainchild of Professor Johanna Stiebert and generously hosted by Rev Jason McCullagh and Otley United Reformed Church.
2023-02-2116 minThe Shiloh PodcastThe rape of Daughter ZionEmily Colgan and Rosie discuss Jeremiah’s representation of the land as female, and the violence perpetrated against her.
2021-09-1729 minThe Shiloh PodcastAn Indecent Theology.Eve Parker and Rosie discuss the experience and hybrid religiosity of South Indian Devadasi women.
2021-08-0428 minThe Shiloh PodcastOne Night with the King.Ericka Dunbar talks to Rosie about sex trafficking, collective trauma and horror in the book of Esther.
2021-06-2334 minThe Shiloh PodcastJesus as a victim of sexual abuse.David Tombs tells Rosie how engaging with Liberation Theology and the experience of tortured people in Central America led him to consider the evidence that Jesus was a victim of sexual abuse.
2021-03-2434 minThe Shiloh PodcastWe need to talk about Mary.Karen O'Donnell argues that Mary’s response to the trauma of unexpected pregnancy can provide comfort and a model for other trauma survivors. Karen’s book Broken Bodies is available – with a 20% discount – from https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/ until 17thDecember
2020-12-1528 minThe Shiloh PodcastRape culture, purity culture and Teen Bibles.Caroline Blyth and Rosie discuss how Teen Bibles cast God in the role of a Coercive Abuser who humiliates, demeans and gaslights teenage girls.
2020-11-1633 minThe Shiloh PodcastThe Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men.Chris Greenough tells Rosie how silence about sexual violence in the Bible both leads to a denial of the problem and perpetuates homophobia.
2020-10-0121 minThe Shiloh PodcastThe Fearless One – naming the rape victim in Judges 19Helen Paynter and Rosie discuss two harrowing stories of rape and murder - from Delhi in 21st century and from Ancient Israel in the time of the Judges. Please be aware of disturbing content.
2020-08-0523 minThe Shiloh PodcastA woman of courage – who can find?Mmapula Kebaneilwe talks to Rosie about the rise of Gender Based Violence in Botswana, the Bible as a tool of oppression or liberation and why the Proverbial “woman of virtue” is actually a “woman of courage.”
2020-07-0913 minThe Shiloh PodcastRape Myths, the Bible and #MeTooJohanna Stiebert talks to Rosie about rape myths, the Bible and #MeToo. If there is no actual Hebrew word for “rape,” is it right to use it in modern translations of the Bible? How do the prophetic images of Israel as a harlot feed into contemporary attitudes to women sometimes seen in rape trials?
2020-06-2518 minThe Shiloh PodcastThe Shiloh Project: how it beganKatie Edwards talks to Rosie about why it’s important to study rape culture and the Bible, the early days of the Shiloh Project and its collaborations with theologians in Ghana and Botswana. https://shiloh-project.group.shef.ac.uk
2020-06-1119 minThe Shiloh PodcastTrailer: Rape Culture, Religion and the BiblePodcast shining a light on the stories and practices of religion that contribute to or help resist rape culture.https://shiloh-project.group.shef.ac.ukFunded by AHRC
2020-06-0501 min