Called to be Bad
Called to be Bad
"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
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