The Psychedelic Renaissance: In Drugs We Trust?
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Gary Laderman What is going on beneath surface, you ask? I’ll try to be brief.
Introducing Don’t Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality
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Gary Laderman This book attempts to explain why I study death and to recall how I got to, and stuck with, the topic.
Black Lives, Sacred Matters
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Gary Laderman Religion is always mostly about material bodies.
Disturbing Deaths and National Disunity
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Gary Laderman The national body politic is dead, another corpse that, perhaps in this case, doesn’t deserve a public ceremony but instead is rotting publicly before our very eyes.
Sacred American Values in Pandemic Times
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Gary Laderman Where will Americans put their faith in this unprecedented time of crisis?
Mass Death Moments
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Gary Laderman Sadly, human history is full of examples of “mass death,” often tied to war and disease, that are usually pivotal periods for living communities.
Touching Intimacies
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Gary Laderman Touching is all of a sudden quite fascinating to me.
LSD [Flashback]
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Gary Laderman In other words, experiences with LSD and the publicity surrounding them gave shape and content to modern understandings of spirituality.
Derek Webb Beyond Belief
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Phillip Luke Sinitiere If folk music historically has been an artform of creative social critique, then analysis of Webb’s musical art and artistic production more generally can serve as a collective lens through which to peer into the complex threads of contemporary religion, culture, and politics in the United States.
Trump and the Apocalypse: Or, the Ribald Religion of New Orleans’ Krewe du Vieux Parade
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Edward E. Curtis IV and Andrea R. Jain This year’s theme was “Erection 2020.”