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Dangerous Pedagogy: Takeaways from Taking Sacred Drugs

December 06, 2020 1 Comment

Gary Laderman Elaine Penagos Many of us looked forward to each class session and thought about it when we weren’t together synchronously, and there were, we think, even moments of collective effervescence that broke down the artificiality of virtual teaching, and that would have surely aroused Durkheim’s curiosity.

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My Joe Rogan Experience, Experience

December 02, 2020 2 Comments

Gary Laderman A few weeks out, my new mantra is “this too shall pass.”

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Introducing Don’t Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality

August 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman This book attempts to explain why I study death and to recall how I got to, and stuck with, the topic.

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Black Lives, Sacred Matters

June 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Religion is always mostly about material bodies.

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Disturbing Deaths and National Disunity

May 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

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.

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Sacred American Values in Pandemic Times

April 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Where will Americans put their faith in this unprecedented time of crisis?

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Mass Death Moments

April 08, 2020 Leave a Comment

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.

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Touching Intimacies

March 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman Touching is all of a sudden quite fascinating to me.

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LSD [Flashback]

March 07, 2020 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman In other words, experiences with LSD and the publicity surrounding them gave shape and content to modern understandings of spirituality.

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Drugs and Religion: Same Thing?

January 20, 2020 1 Comment

Gary Laderman So, does your chocolate or tobacco consumption “enchant” your world?

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