{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Circumscription","home_page_url":"https://circumscription.fireside.fm","feed_url":"https://circumscription.fireside.fm/json","description":"Much of what gives life meaning, continuity, and order is the act of setting boundaries. Much of what gives you a clear sense of who and what you are is a clear sense of who and what you're not. This is a podcast about drawing such lines. It's about the processes involved in setting and maintaining boundaries, but also stretching and crossing them. We explore questions about these issues in three areas: collective identity, religion, and constitutional law.","_fireside":{"subtitle":"Where We Set The Limits","pubdate":"2025-07-08T05:00:00.000-04:00","explicit":false,"copyright":"2025 by Michael Sargent","owner":"Michael Sargent","image":"https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/9/92d4f201-c679-4a52-8c80-a47e41397da4/cover.jpg?v=1"},"items":[{"id":"70bd62d7-c70f-45c2-ae39-5d2347638134","title":"Episode 1: God, Grace, and Grudges","url":"https://circumscription.fireside.fm/1","content_text":"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.\n\nOTHER LINKS\n--White House Executive Order: Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias\n--Beyond Conflict\n--Interfaith Philadelphia\n--God Is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens\n--Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, by Ara Norenzayan\n--Southern Poverty Law Center Page on The Westboro Baptist Church\n--\"Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Word\" (Interview on NPR's Fresh Air)\n--\"Religious ‘Nones’ in America: Who They Are and What They Believe\" (Pew Research Center)\n--Martin Luther King Jr. and the American Revolution\n\nMUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the \"cc by\" license)\n--\"The Trail,\" by Unheard Music Concepts\n--\"Funky End,\" by Pawel Feszczuk\n--\"Caress me to sleep,\" by rui\n--\"Monsters of the past,\" by Pawel Feszczuk\n--\"Precisamos de um plano,\" by rui\n--\"Light Lab,\" by Rest You Sleeping GiantSpecial Guest: Michael Pasek.","content_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://psch.uic.edu/profiles/pasek-michael/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eMikey Pasek\u003c/a\u003e is a social psychologist, and is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. He leads the \u003ca href=\"https://bigr.psch.uic.edu/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eBelief, Identity, and Group Relations Lab\u003c/a\u003e at UIC. We discussed a range of topics, including religion, big and moralizing gods, Christian nationalism, race, and how to alter anti-democratic attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOTHER LINKS\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--White House Executive Order: Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://beyondconflictint.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--Beyond Conflict\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.interfaithphiladelphia.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--Interfaith Philadelphia\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e--God Is Not Great\u003c/em\u003e, by Christopher Hitchens\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691169743/big-gods\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e--Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict\u003c/em\u003e, by Ara Norenzayan\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/westboro-baptist-church/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--Southern Poverty Law Center Page on The Westboro Baptist Church\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2008/03/31/89236116/black-liberation-theology-in-its-founders-words\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--\u0026quot;Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder\u0026#39;s Word\u0026quot; (Interview on NPR\u0026#39;s \u003cem\u003eFresh Air\u003c/em\u003e)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--\u0026quot;Religious ‘Nones’ in America: Who They Are and What They Believe\u0026quot; (Pew Research Center)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.amrevmuseum.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-the-promises-of-the-american-revolution\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e--Martin Luther King Jr. and the American Revolution\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the \u0026quot;cc by\u0026quot; license)\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n--\u0026quot;The Trail,\u0026quot; by Unheard Music Concepts\u003cbr\u003e\n--\u0026quot;Funky End,\u0026quot; by Pawel Feszczuk\u003cbr\u003e\n--\u0026quot;Caress me to sleep,\u0026quot; by rui\u003cbr\u003e\n--\u0026quot;Monsters of the past,\u0026quot; by Pawel Feszczuk\u003cbr\u003e\n--\u0026quot;Precisamos de um plano,\u0026quot; by rui\u003cbr\u003e\n--\u0026quot;Light Lab,\u0026quot; by Rest You Sleeping Giant\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial Guest: Michael Pasek.\u003c/p\u003e","summary":"A conversation with Mikey Pasek, about religion, identity, and politics.","date_published":"2025-07-08T05:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/92d4f201-c679-4a52-8c80-a47e41397da4/70bd62d7-c70f-45c2-ae39-5d2347638134.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26649317,"duration_in_seconds":3331}]}]}