We Now Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

Did you miss us? We missed you!

Life, as y'all know, uh... finds a way. But we have beaten life back long enough to bring you this update on the pod and what we have scheduled for this, our SEVENTH season!!

Look out for our first-ever book club (Jane Steele, by Lyndsay Faye), two miniseries (one on religion and adoption, one on how we wrote our forthcoming book, Religion Is Not Done With You), plus some one-off So Glad You Asked-style responses to listener questions about things like religion & tattoos AND a sneak peek into Megan's research on #CultsInc and the MOVE bombing.

As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.

It's all happening, nerds. Welcome back!

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Transcript

Megan Goodwin: 0:00

Is it happening? It's happening. It's happening. It's all happening. Hi, hello.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 0:03

Is happening? Hi, hello, Shall we let us Okay, after many, many months, without further ado, this is, this is keeping it 101, a killjoys. Introduction to religion podcast, which is part of the amplify podcast network, we are grateful to live teach and record on the current ancestral and unceded lands of the Abenaki and Wabanaki peoples, as well as the lands of one federally recognized native nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and seven North Carolina state recognized tribal entities. Increasingly, though, native folks are pushing us to forgo land acknowledgements altogether and focus on action items. So let's start with land back. And as always, you can find material ways to support indigenous communities on our website.

Megan Goodwin: 0:50

My current personal favorite way to support native economic sovereignty is supporting North Carolina's first end to date only dispensary, the Great Smoky cannabis company out on the boundary in Cherokee. Wado for Oh, it's me still. What's up, nerds, it's the snacks and cute sweatshirts, fiends. I'm helping. good to be back. We're a little out of practice, but we're

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 1:07

You are helping! psyched as hell to be here. Hi, hello. I'm Megan Goodwin. I'm a Hi, hello. I'm Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, a historian of religion, scholar of American religions, race, gender and politics. Islam, race and racialization and South Asia, which is a place and not just a drag race contestant, Ilyse it feels like ages since we've talked, okay, that's just a straight up lie, but it's definitely ages since we recorded our talking, it has been we've missed you, dear listeners, though not each other. We're actually best friends and family in real life. We talk all the time, even if we don't record it. But you may have noticed that we have been on a short to medium long hiatus.

Megan Goodwin: 1:57

It was the hiatus that it needed to be, but we're back, babies. We had to finish our book, which is now available for pre order. Thank you very much. Officially drops on the fifth of November, 2024 it's Guy Fawkes day. It's, uh, it's an election day in the US. That's fine. That's that's fine. I'm fine. I feel fine about it.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 2:17

Yeah, remember, remember the fifth of November, and it's fitting, uh and Goodwin, yes, geez, what is the name of this not to be missed, book?

Megan Goodwin: 2:28

Oh, wait, I know this one. I know this one. It is called Religion Is Not Done With You.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 2:33

Beacon Press, graciously. Let us write a book loosely tied to this here podcast. It has swears, as you might imagine, and baseball, because I can't avoid sports and maps and race and gender and law and we think, Nay, We are fully committed to the fact that you will love it.

Megan Goodwin: 2:51

You will love it. We know it. We know it in our hearts. We would love it if you would pre order it. Pre orders equal love, please and thank you. It helps the publisher know that people are excited about the book, and we hope--we feel confident that you will be excited about the book. So we'd love it the most if you pre ordered from indie books or your local bookstore, but it is available literally everywhere, and will be in bookstores nationally, like a real book.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 3:18

I know it's so exciting. Geppetto did all of his magic, and here we are

Megan Goodwin: 3:24

Aint no strings on me.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 3:25

It turns out that writing a podcast, writing a book, writing our own individual articles and books and chapters and grants, as well as teaching and designing websites and running a humanities center and all of the rest, made releasing bi weekly episodes literally impossible. It turns out, even I have limits, which seems ridiculous, is ultimately true.

Megan Goodwin: 3:51

sometimes, sometimes calendar schedules. You now you know how I feel every goddamn day, but we're back. We're back, and we have a year of episodes planned for y'all and we're really excited about it.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 4:05

Yeah, we've got this year long season like back to regular populated with short series, topical episodes and some how-does-the-sausage-get-made, episodes about book writing. Because, quite frankly, you nerds keep asking us about it, even when we went into hibernation.

Megan Goodwin: 4:21

So we will, we will share the sausage.

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 4:25

Yeah, well, we'll have a barbecue or something.

Megan Goodwin: 4:28

Ah, good. Yes, delicious. I can't wait to chomp into that. So, yeah, let's get into it. Here is a rundown of what we've got going on this year. We have a four part mini series that we're so excited and scared, in the words of Stephen Sondheim, to share with you, it is about religion and adoption. No big deal where we're focusing on how religions approach children without guardians, how adoption is related to religious freedom and where reproductive justice fits into this conversation. We also have a three-part series of minisodes on writing a book. So like how that happens. Why write for a public audience, how we work together. And then we've got some fun standalone episodes about religion and tattoos. I just got a new tattoo. We're very excited about it. Gonna talk about it. We're doing a historic dive into the MOVE bombing, and me, who I'm, Megan's new research, and we're talking about maybe watching Monkey Man, because that sounds like fun. And also we are finally doing our book club episode about Jane Steele,

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 5:30

yeah which makes this a great time to remind you all that we said we'd read Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye together, and we have, we just didn't record anything about it, which now we will, and we're going to talk about it in our next episode. So if you are holding out on having read Jane Steele, or if you read it a year ago and then forgot it, this is a great time to revisit you know your Cliff Notes, quick quickie refresher.

Megan Goodwin: 5:56

Oh, I wonder if there's an audio book. I bet there is an audio book. Maybe I'll, maybe I'll look at that anyway. So amazing. Excited nerds. If you feel like it, grab that novel at your local library, and we shall put on our best LeVar Burton fan goggles and talk about it on our very next episode

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 6:11

before we say peace out, nerds, the sacred utterance, let me just say we've gotten a ton of requests recently to come and give either book talks or podcast talks, and that is so exciting and so humbling and so fabulous. If you want to invite us to campus or your local bookstore, please, please, please, we have been instructed to tell you to reach out to our incredible marketing and publicity Maven at Beacon Press, whose name is Caitlin Meyer, all of that information is going to be in our show notes and on our website, but just so you heard it, we would love to come visit, and particularly beacon would love us if we came and visited, but they are organizing all of that, so get in touch early and often. We will do our best to show up in your neck of the woods.

Megan Goodwin: 7:02

that would be super fun. We are really excited about this book, and we're really excited to talk to you all about it. So once again, it is called Religion Is Not Done With You. I love it so much. Anyway, you can find us across social media. We're still reluctantly on the zombie that is Twitter. We're on instant we're on Tiktok, we're on Facebook. Apparently, I don't even know that! we should maybe get on blue sky. I don't know. Let's talk about it. And if none of that tickles your fancy, we have a newsletter you can join via our website, which is keeping it one on one.com, drop us a rating or review in your podcatcher of choice. And with that,

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst: 7:34

peace out. Nerds.

Megan Goodwin: 7:35

Do your homework. It's on the syllabus.

Unknown: 7:59

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