Kansikuva näyttelystä Stories from History's Edges with Audelia Rinot

Stories from History's Edges with Audelia Rinot

Podcast by Audelia Rinot

englanti

Historia & uskonnot

14 vrk ilmainen kokeilu

Kokeilun jälkeen 7,99 € / kuukausi.Peru milloin tahansa.

  • Podimon podcastit
  • Lataa offline-käyttöön
Aloita maksutta

Lisää Stories from History's Edges with Audelia Rinot

3 new episodes every weekend. In this podcast, I talk about history from the edges, when belief turns into pressure, and when gods stop being ideas and start acting through people. It grows out of the ideas behind my book: Not the Same God, and the habit of not letting certain thoughts slide just because they’re supposed to be polite. audeliarinotauthor.substack.com

Kaikki jaksot

3 jaksot

jakson Episode #3 - How do Gods Survive? kansikuva

Episode #3 - How do Gods Survive?

My question is: how do gods survive? I don’t mean in the way theologians talk about survival, with eternity and omnipotence and all the comforting abstractions, but in the messy, human way that belief actually works over time. Because once you strip religion of its poetry and its rituals, gods have a very concrete problem. They only exist as long as people believe in them, and belief is not a given. It has to be maintained, protected, and sometimes aggressively defended. So in practice, gods have options. They can recruit slowly and patiently through prophets, stories, miracles, and promises, hoping that new followers will abandon old habits and loyalties in favor of a new way of seeing the world. They can rely on inheritance, trusting that belief is passed down through families and traditions, taught to children before those children are old enough to ask uncomfortable questions. Both methods work, sometimes. And then there is the option nobody likes to say out loud: a god can survive by eliminating its rivals. If you can prove that another god no longer works, you don’t need to persuade anyone. You don’t need philosophy or debate. You just have to let people watch what happens when prayers stop being answered, and when priests suddenly have nothing to offer but excuses. In an economy of belief, nothing travels faster than the visible collapse of a god’s power. That is the lens I want to use today. So let’s talk about how gods survive. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audeliarinotauthor.substack.com [https://audeliarinotauthor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

18. tammi 2026 - 17 min
jakson Episode #2 - The Best Recruits are the Ones Who Can't Say "No" kansikuva

Episode #2 - The Best Recruits are the Ones Who Can't Say "No"

Here’s a thought-provoking idea we rarely talk about because it feels too obvious to question once you notice it. Nobody is born believing anything. Not God, not gods, not heaven, not hell, not sin, not salvation, not karma, not enlightenment. Babies come out knowing exactly two things: how to demand food and how to panic when they do not get it fast enough. Everything else arrives later, delivered by adults who already made their own deals with the universe and now want some continuity because it makes them feel safe. By the time choice even becomes a possibility, the decision has already been made and defended on your behalf. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audeliarinotauthor.substack.com [https://audeliarinotauthor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

17. tammi 2026 - 10 min
jakson Episode #1 - The Evil Trick kansikuva

Episode #1 - The Evil Trick

Welcome to my podcast: Stories from History’s Edges. This episode was recorded before today’s news broke. The fact that it lines up anyway is not intentional. It’s familiar. Sometimes history does the timing for you. Today’s episode is about the oldest trick gods still use. When violence works, it’s justified. When it doesn’t, it’s denied. If three gods all say they’re the same, someone is lying. History doesn’t repeat itself. It reuses the same tricks. This is Stories at History’s Edges. Thanks for listening. Audelia This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audeliarinotauthor.substack.com [https://audeliarinotauthor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

16. tammi 2026 - 10 min
Kuuntele rekisteröitymällä
Loistava design ja vihdoin on helppo löytää podcasteja, joista oikeasti tykkää
Loistava design ja vihdoin on helppo löytää podcasteja, joista oikeasti tykkää
Kiva sovellus podcastien kuunteluun, ja sisältö on monipuolista ja kiinnostavaa
Todella kiva äppi, helppo käyttää ja paljon podcasteja, joita en tiennyt ennestään.

Valitse tilauksesi

Suosituimmat

Premium

  • Podimon podcastit

  • Ei mainoksia Podimon podcasteissa

  • Peru milloin tahansa

14 vrk ilmainen kokeilu
Sitten 7,99 € / kuukausi

Aloita maksutta

Premium

20 tuntia äänikirjoja

  • Podimon podcastit

  • Ei mainoksia Podimon podcasteissa

  • Peru milloin tahansa

14 vrk ilmainen kokeilu
Sitten 9,99 € / kuukausi

Aloita maksutta

Premium

100 tuntia äänikirjoja

  • Podimon podcastit

  • Ei mainoksia Podimon podcasteissa

  • Peru milloin tahansa

14 vrk ilmainen kokeilu
Sitten 19,99 € / kuukausi

Aloita maksutta

Vain Podimossa

Suosittuja äänikirjoja

Usein kysytyt kysymykset

Lisää kysymyksiä & vastauksia
Aloita maksutta

14 vrk ilmainen kokeilu. Kokeilun jälkeen 7,99 € / kuukausi. Peru milloin tahansa.