Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Heidi Campbell, Professor of Communications at Texas A&M University where she has been based for the last 15 years. Originally from Michigan, Heidi trained as a journalist and then morphed into a Religious Studies scholar where she does some pioneering, interdisciplinary work in media, religion and culture. Heidi has just edited an online collection on the coronavirus pandemic, Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World (https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/188004), and she talks about churches which are streaming services and asks how people are adapting their use of technology. We learn about the rationale and the findings of her project, including whether religion needs to be embodied or disembodied and the relationship between events and communities. What does it mean for a Muslim, for example, who can’t practice their religion in a physical mosque? Heidi reflects on her career and talks about the role of classical music when she was