![The Religious Studies Project show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/061/348/small/the-religious-studies-project.jpg)
Summary: In this interview, Timothy Fitzgerald presents his critical deconstruction of religion as a powerful discourse and its parasitic relation to ‘secular’ categories such as politics and economics. Religion is not a stand-alone category, he argues; ‘religions’ are modern inventions which are made to appear ubiquitous and, by being removed to a marginal, privatised domain, serve to mystify the supposed natural rationality of the secular state and capital.