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Ethnic Christianities: 7 Questions for Prema Kurien

February 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

Prema Kurien My research showed that immigrant churches like the Mar Thoma face several challenges if they are to successfully institutionalize as an “ethnic” church in a context where Christianity is the majority religion.

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The Rise of the Internet Witch

October 31, 2017 Leave a Comment

Audrey Lundahl Although witches are using the internet to connect and share with wider communities, the web is only one aspect of the wider interconnectedness of witchcraft.

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When Do Moviegoers Become Pilgrims?

August 03, 2017 Leave a Comment

S. Brent Plate The thing is, pilgrimage and tourism are not really that far apart.

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Remembering Prince

May 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mark Hulsether If music or group religious rituals can change the world—and I think at times they can—then the world changed during this performance.

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Meaning to Life: Coltrane

April 22, 2017 Leave a Comment

Something spiritual in the shrieking sax?

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Western Sufism: 7 Questions for Mark Sedgwick

April 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mark Sedgwick Sufis are, of course, always on a search for the sacred. They understand the sacred in various ways, but the classic starting point is the starting point of everything—that is to say, the One of Neoplatonic philosophy, from which all else emanates.

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7 Questions for Barbara A. Mann

January 10, 2017 Leave a Comment

Barbara A. Mann First, nothing in monotheism prepares anyone to understand anything in Indian spirituality. The base number of monotheism is One, whereas the base number of Indian spirituality is Two. These assumptions lead in very different directions.

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7 Questions for Elizabeth Drescher

September 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Drescher . . . what constitutes “religion” and the “spiritual” for most people often has little in common with what scholars study and demographers track.

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Bonnaroo Spirituality and Collective Effervescence

August 26, 2016 Leave a Comment
By Jon Elbaz - Centeroo Arch, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42667797

Scott Muir Bonnaroovians overwhelmingly endorse the notion that the festival is a sacred collective experience.

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From Sophia to Silicon: The Materiality of Information

July 21, 2016 Leave a Comment

Sylvester Johnson In my last post, I discussed Bina48, an intelligent machine engineered as part of the LifeNaut project. LifeNaut engineers have uploaded into Bina48 the memories, speech samples, and other cognitive patterns of an actual human, Bina Aspen Rothblatt.

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