Kevin Flatt
History professor and author who studies the historical concept of religion and sacred social orders, providing academic analysis about how non-Western cultures conceptualize religion and social alignment.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 1h 20min
Why Rationality Rules is God's Gift to a Metagelical Future
Kevin Flatt, a history professor who studies how societies shape religion and sacred social orders, joins to rethink the category of religion. He explains sacred social order as cultural alignment with supra-human authority. Conversations range from anthropology and secularization to AI, defensive modernization, Islam as a social system, and how traditions shape moral frameworks.
Mar 5, 2026 • 48min
The Convenient but False Division of our World into Religious and Secular is Ending
Kevin Flatt, historian who studies secularization and the history of religion. He and the host challenge the neat religious versus secular split and the assumptions behind secularization theory. They probe how politics, institutions, and lived belief blur that divide. They trace American restorationist impulses and debate why the subtraction story of religion endures.
Mar 3, 2026 • 59min
"Religion" Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
Kevin Flatt, scholar of religion and secularization studies, explores why the modern label "religion" misleads. He traces how early Islam and other traditions functioned as political-legal or sacral orders. He critiques social science assumptions and proposes "sacred social order" to rethink how cultures organize meaning and authority across history.
