"Witch Trials" with Jessi Knippel--Called to be Bad Podcast S3 EP4

In this episode of  Called to be Bad, scholar Jessie Knippel takes us through the history of colonial witch trials, why certain people groups were targeted as “witches", and the role Christianity played in these hunts. Then we move to the modern day and how cycles of religious, political, and economic control continue to police women and other marginalized peoples. 

*Also I apologize for the mis-matched and bad audio--I couldn't figure out how to fix it.*

Jessie’s Full Bio: 
Jessi Knippel-academic, writer, artist who recently moved from the promised land of Southern California to the wilds of the American South with her partner and children. She holds a BA in Theatre and in Religious Studies, as well as three MAs at the intersections of Religion, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Media and Art. She is currently in the early dissertation phase of an interdisciplinary PhD in Religion, Gender Studies and Media at Claremont Graduate School. She also is an adjunct instructor at Mercer University. Her research includes European Witchcraft/Witch trials, Religion of the Atlantic world, Post/Ex-Evangelicals and Religious Deconstruction, Evangelicalism in the US,  High Control Groups/Emerging Religions (ie cults), Deviant Sex Cults, syncretism and folk practices in religion, as well as pop culture and religion.

Jessie’s Socials: 
Website: https://www.jessiknippel.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seattlerainartist/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jknippel1

Jessie’s book list: 
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic Owen Davies

Witchcraft in Early North America Alison Games

Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe Stuart Clark

Devil in the Shape of a Woman Carol Karlsen

Entertaining Satan John Demos

Malevolent Nurture: Witch hunting and Maternal Power in early modern England -Deborah Willis

Witch-hunts in Europe and America an Encyclopedia -William Burns
Witchcraze -Anne Barstow
Witches, Midwives and Nurses- Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English (this is one of the books I mentioned)

Obeah, Race and Racism:Caribbean Witchcraft in the English imagination- Eugenia O’Neal

Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem - Elaine Breslaw

Witches of the Atlantic World Reader- Elaine Breslaw editor

Caliban and The Witch: Women the Body and Primative Accumulation- Silvia Federici

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route- Saniya Hartman

Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Natural Rebels: A Slave History of Enslaved Women in Barbados- Hilary McD Beckles

 (Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics) Kameelah 
Martin

Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah and the Caribbean Margarite Fernandez Olmos &. Lizbeth. Paravismini- Gerbert ed.

Rituals of Resistance; African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the low country of the South in the Era of Slavery Jason R Young

The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power Greg Thomas

Every Tongue Got to Confess Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men Zora Neale Huston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Zora Neale Hurston

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic Word Edited by Luis Nicolau Pares & Roger Sansi

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition Yvonne P Chireau

The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse
Oyeronke Oyewumi

The History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State
 
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. Print.

Bush, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society. Bloomingt