7 Questions with Katri Ratia

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Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Katri Ratia, whose book Alternative Spirituality, Counterculture, and European Rainbow Gatherings: Pachamama, I’m Coming Home was published with Routledge Press this March.  Get to Know […]

Excellent Excerpts: Vodou en Vogue by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Vodou en Vogue Book Cover

Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, out June 2023, University of North Carolina Press.  From the Preface This […]

Excellent Excerpts: Gendered Fortunes by Zeynep K. Korkman

Gendered Fortunes Book Cover

Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey by Zeynep K. Korkman, out April 21, 2023, Duke University Press.  Book Synopsis: In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s […]

My Dad Died While I Was Teaching Death and Dying

Gary Laderman In addition to all these peculiar and profound circumstances, I also watched and assisted in my dad’s death while teaching “Death and Dying” in the spring of 2021, simultaneously professing about data and history and comparisons to students, while learning in the real world that I know nothing, that I am a child in a world of wonders and mystery, and misery.

Animal Abuse in Modern Yoga Gastropolitics

Jonathan Dickstein Scholars have expressed that “‘abuse’ extends beyond individual yoga communities and is often performed through unacknowledged race, gender, and class privilege.” But what about unacknowledged species privilege?