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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
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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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On Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s)

June 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

William B. Parsons What does “being spiritual but not religious” mean? It’s on dating sites, so it must be something! But is it clear-cut and easy to identify, or is it more like what Gertrude Stein once said about Oakland, California, namely: “There is no there there.” It’s a good question. We’ll shed some light on the spiritual but not religious movement (SBNRM) and on “being” spiritual but not religious (BSBNR).

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On Bonnaroo’s 15th: The Sacred and the Psychedelic Tradition

June 07, 2016 Leave a Comment

Scott Muir While 65% of the 655 individuals I surveyed at 10 such festivals report that they rarely or never “attend religious or spiritual services/gatherings,” participants overwhelmingly affirm the notion that these festivals are themselves sacred social events.

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Candomblé Reconsidered: A Sacred Matters Interview

May 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

Dianne Stewart In the twenty-first century, increasing populations are becoming aware of the presence of African-heritage religions in the diaspora but we have still much to learn from and about these religions.

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Teaching True Believers

May 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

Jolyon Baraka Thomas The religious studies classroom is a strange place. Whether one teaches in a public university or a private one, the subject matter demands that students set aside personal commitments in order to engage with religion both critically and respectfully.

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