Episode Four : Dr. Aike Rots

This episode features an interview with Dr. Aike Rots, principal researcher of the Whales of Power project and author of Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests (Bloomsbury Press, 2017). In our talk, we discuss the transnational scope of the Whales of Power project, and how it looks to reframe Religious Studies through a comparative paradigm opened up by the sea.