{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 349: The YouTube Prosperity Gospel w\/Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz","description":"Kaitlyn Ugoretz (Lecturer, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University, Japan; PhD, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, in progress) is an anthropologist of religion focused on the globalization of Japanese Shinto practices through popular culture such as anime, video games, and Marie Kondo\u2019s decluttering. The Associate Editor of The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, and a member of the Sacred Writes 2021 public scholarship training cohort, Prof. Ugoretz also promotes public scholarship on Japanese religions through her award-winning educational YouTube channel Eat Pray Anime, in podcast interviews, cultural consulting, and her writing for venues including Religion News Service and The Conversation. Ugoretz will conduct a digital ethnography of Japanese tidying guru Marie Kondo. She notes that while Western scholarship tends to consider Kondo to be \u201cspiritual,\u201d the Japanese find her to be too \u201creligious,\u201d reflecting aspects of Buddhist and Shinto traditions. This leads Ugoretz to argue that our understanding of spiritual yearning should expand---it is neither a new nor an American phenomenon. The boundary between what is \u201creligious\u201d and what is \u201cspiritual\u201d is historically and cultural constructed, and shaped by ideas of race, class, and globalization. She argues that spiritual yearning emerges from human existential needs and concerns, and should be distinguished from the capitalistic patterns of \u201cspiritual consumption\u201d that it often inspires. Visit Sacred Writes: https:\/\/www.sacred-writes.org\/templeton-working-group Visit Eat, Pray, Anime: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/eatprayanime   ","author_name":"The Classical Ideas Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"